Banking

Bloomberg The coronavirus pandemic has led to a slowdown in developing physical infrastructure as countries’ economic health deteriorates, posing a challenge for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), its president said. “What worries me, what worries the bank is the deterioration of the economic situation of some of our members,” Jin Liqun said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on ...

Bloomberg Nomura Holdings Inc is hiring bankers for its mergers and acquisitions business in Japan as a sharp rebound in domestic deal-making vaults the nation’s biggest securities firm to the top ranks of global advisers. “We’re recruiting people more eagerly than usual,” global M&A head Shunichi Tsunoda said in an interview. Consultations on local deals are up about 30% to ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is in advanced talks to sell a technology services unit to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Asia’s biggest software exporter by market value, people with knowledge of the matter said. The discussions about Bonn-based Postbank Systems AG are expected to result in a deal with the Indian company by the end of the year, the people said, ...

Bloomberg Kotak Mahindra Bank, backed by Asia’s richest banker, is exploring a takeover of smaller Indian rival IndusInd Bank, people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that would create the nation’s eighth-largest financial firm by assets. Uday Kotak, founder and chief executive officer of Kotak Mahindra, is looking at the possibility of an all-stock acquisition, one of the ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG plans to raise the fixed salaries for some of its more senior employees by as much as 20% to prevent poaching by competitors. A review at Switzerland’s largest bank found differences in base pay among employees in the same roles, and when compared with competitors, people familiar with the plans said. As a result, UBS plans ...

Bloomberg The Swiss National Bank (SNB) could be forced to sell a chunk of its more than $100 billion US stock portfolio as part of a campaign to ban it from investing in defense companies. A poll by gfs.bern for public broadcaster SRG showed 54% of voters in favour of the proposal, which goes to a national vote on November ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. is exploring the sale of its asset-management unit as the biggest banks choose paths of diving deeper into the business or getting out. The Wells Fargo unit could fetch more than $3 billion, according to a person briefed on the matter, who said the bank began discussing a possible deal with other asset managers and ...

Bloomberg Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jes Staley’s drive to make investment banking the centerpiece of his strategy paid off in the third quarter, with equities trading in a volatile market beating the bank’s Wall Street peers. The shares approached a two-month high. The London-based bank’s equity trading income jumped 40% and foreign-exchange, rates and credit trading rises 23%, ...

Bloomberg The Riksbank governor, Stefan Ingves, fears the economic outlook is deteriorating amid signs the coronavirus pandemic is tightening its grip across Europe, and ensnaring Sweden again too. “If you look at our forecasts, it will take a few years before GDP is back” at pre-crisis levels, Ingves said in an interview in Stockholm. “And those forecasts were done before ...

Bloomberg There’s so much cash in Europe there are just not enough bonds to go around. The amount of spare liquidity in the euro-area economy hit an all-time high of 3.2 trillion euros ($3.8 trillion) this month and plenty of that is chasing any new debt issue. This was seen in the record 233 billion euros of orders for the ...