Banking

Bloomberg The Philippine central bank is done with easing monetary policy for this year after it cut interest rates three times and pumped liquidity into the banking system, Governor Benjamin Diokno said. When asked if there would be no more reductions in the benchmark rate or reserve requirement ratio in 2019, Diokno said “absolutely.” Monetary authorities have done “more than ...

Bloomberg While the appointment of Mark Carney’s successor has been officially delayed, a frenzy of speculation about who will get the job was seen. Several reports on the government’s favourites were met with news that there is no preferred candidate at this time. The confusion sums up what has thus far been a chaotic appointment process, continually delayed by Brexit. ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG will pass on negative interest rates only to larger corporate customers or the deposits of wealthy individuals and spare most retail clients, Deputy Chief Executive Officer Karl von Rohr said in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. The bank is talking to the customers affected and they understand the issues, von Rohr said. German banks have ...

Bloomberg Australia’s stock market may not get the kind of boost historically seen in its peers should the country’s central bank unleash quantitative easing, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The problem is already-low bond yields and elevated equity valuations, Goldman analysts Matthew Ross and Bill Zu wrote in a November 1 note. While Goldman still doesn’t see Reserve Bank ...

Bloomberg The Philippine peso has a secret weapon that has made it one of Asia’s best-performing currencies this year: bumper real yields. While the central bank has cut interest rates three times this year to spur growth —which typically saps demand for a currency — slowing inflation has ensured that real yields on the nation’s bonds have remained among the ...

Bloomberg Yes Bank Ltd, the Indian lender that’s been courting investors following management turmoil and scrutiny of bad loans, posted a bigger-than-expected second-quarter loss as soured debt increased and the firm took a one-time charge. The loss totalled 6 billion rupees ($84.7 million) for the three months ended on September 30, compared with net income of 9.65 billion rupees a ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co and Amazon.com Inc have begun testing the new health-care venture they’re developing with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc, rolling out some of the new offerings to employees in a handful of states. Under the program, called Haven Healthcare, JPMorgan is offering its 30,000 workers in Ohio and Arizona two plans for 2020 run by Cigna ...

Bloomberg Danske Bank A/S will target its fixed-income and currencies unit for job cuts as part of a sweeping plan to revive profits amid rising compliance costs and entrenched negative interest rates. Denmark’s biggest bank, which is being investigated for money laundering across Europe and in the US, missed analysts’ profit estimates, third-quarter results showed. It acknowledged its result this ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s central bank is preparing to release new Z$2 ($0.13) and Z$5 banknotes that will come into circulation this month after a decade-long absence, according to a release in a government gazette. Since the reintroduction of the Zimbabwe dollar as the sole legal tender in June, transactions have been conducted in bond notes and coins, which, until February, had ...

Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund’s(IMF) executive board completed a sixth review of Sri Lanka’s economic performance, enabling the disbursement of about $164 million in supporting funds. This brought total disbursements under the Extended Fund Facility arrangement to about $1.31 billion, the IMF said in a statement dated November 1 on its website. Sri Lanka’s economy is gradually recovering from the ...