Banking

Bloomberg Bank of Montreal (BMO) agreed to sell its Europe, Middle East and Africa asset-management unit to Ameriprise Financial Inc. for $847 million, marking Chief Executive Officer Darryl White’s biggest move yet to trim the bank’s portfolio of non-core businesses. The sale includes the opportunity for some US clients to move to Ameriprise’s Columbia Threadneedle Investments unit, subject to their ...

Bloomberg The 25 biggest US banks collectively reduced their loan holdings by 8% in the year through March, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest weekly survey. Total loans fall by $447 billion to $5.45 trillion, Fed data show. Meanwhile, total deposits, which provide the funds that banks lend out to borrowers, jumped 16% to $10.13 trillion. Their combined loan-to-deposit ratio ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG slashed the amount of money set aside for bonuses by hundreds of millions of dollars and used the savings to limit financial hit from the implosion of Archegos Capital Management, Financial Times (FT) reported. Cuts to bonus pool accruals and other one-off items added about $600 million to underlying profit before tax for the first ...

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is highly unlikely to deepen its negative interest rate without a fresh economic crisis on a massive scale, according to former board member Makoto Sakurai, whose term ended last month. “The BOJ didn’t lower rates” even at the height of the pandemic shock last year in March, Sakurai said in his first interview since ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is opening a new office in Birmingham, marking the investment bank’s second UK location outside London. The new building is set to open in the third quarter of 2021 and will eventually have several hundred staff across a number of divisions, the bank said in a statement on Tuesday. Engineering will be the first business ...

Bloomberg India’s markets regulator fined Yes Bank Ltd. for claiming that riskier bonds it sold to individual investors were as safe as term deposits. Securities & Exchange Board of India ordered Yes Bank to pay $3.3 million after it “deliberately misrepresented” the Additional Tier 1 notes, “by suppressing the inherent risks of these bonds and distorting facts to mislead their ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank says the rupiah is “very undervalued” following a two-month slide. Investment banks and money managers are predicting further losses. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says climbing US yields and a potentially firmer dollar will keep hurting Indonesian assets in the near term, while PineBridge Investments Asia Ltd. says the rupiah will keep sliding due to the global ...

Bloomberg China’s central bank asked the nation’s major lenders to curtail loan growth for the rest of this year after a surge in the first two months stoked bubble risks, according to people familiar with the matter. At a meeting with the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) on March 22, banks were told to keep new advances in 2021 at ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG unloaded about $2.3 billion worth of stocks tied to the Archegos Capital blowup more than a week after some rivals dumped their shares and skirted losses. The Swiss bank hit the market with block trades tied to ViacomCBS Inc, Vipshop Holdings Ltd and Farfetch Ltd, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The stocks ...

Bloomberg Almost six months after Goldman Sachs Group Inc recommended shorting the dollar, it’s calling it quits on the trade. In a note titled “tactical retreat,” Goldman’s currency team closed its recommended short greenback position against a basket of Group-of-10 commodity currencies, including the Australian and New Zealand dollars. The firm joins hedge funds and other investors capitulating on bearish ...