Banking

Bloomberg A health check on India’s shadow banks shows the crisis in the industry is far from over. Indicators from liquidity to share performance show weakness, according to data compiled by Bloomberg as of September 30. In recent weeks, another financier defaulted, it got harder for investors to cut losses in the sector’s debt and a mortgage lender altered financing ...

Bloomberg The bill to shareholders for Australian banks’ bad behaviour has now topped $3.5 billion, and could rise further. Westpac Banking Corp on Wednesday became the latest lender to set aside additional sums to compensate customers for mis-charged fees, junk products and poor advice in what analysts have called “confession season” ahead of earnings reports. That takes the total after-tax ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is considering substantial cuts to the unit that trades interest-rate securities, a division that survived a large-scale pullback as part of the lender’s sweeping revamp in July. Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing has concluded that it’s possible to reduce enough of the associated technology costs to outweigh the loss in revenue, according to people briefed on ...

Bloomberg Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) set a goal nine years ago to become a Top 10 investment bank in the US — but cracking Wall Street’s upper echelons for advising on takeovers had proved elusive. Until now. RBC Capital Markets has risen to the No. 10 ranking for advising on announced US mergers and acquisitions this year, its highest ...

Bloomberg US Bancorp is eliminating thousands of branch workers as it adjusts to changing customer preferences, according to a person briefed on the decision. The cuts will be in the low thousands, the person said, asking not to be identified because the number isn’t public. In a memo seen by Bloomberg, Chief Executive Officer Andy Cecere said US Bancorp “made ...

Bloomberg Axis Bank Ltd posted an unexpected quarterly loss due to a one-time income tax adjustment. It reported a loss of 1.12 billion rupees ($16 million) in the three months ended on September 30, down from a profit of 7.9 billion rupees a year earlier and compared with a 9.05 billion rupees average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The ...

Bloomberg Smartphones have made taking a photo and checking fantasy football scores a breeze, but inputting credit card details on that small screen can still be frustrating enough that many shoppers just give up, costing retailers billions. Now, the world’s biggest card networks — a group that includes Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover Financial Services — have joined forces ...

Bloomberg Hostility and discrimination await women daring to encroach upon the male-dominated world of economics and central banking, according to papers presented at a European Central Bank conference. The research shows that the much-celebrated rise of Christine Lagarde — a lawyer and politician, not an economist or central banker — to become the ECB’s first-ever female president is atypical for ...

Bloomberg Three words — whatever it takes — defined Mario Draghi’s time as European Central Bank president, but he’s prouder of another number: 11 million jobs. Hardly a public appearance goes by without Draghi mentioning employment growth in the euro zone as a justification for the extraordinary monetary stimulus he’s pushed through since 2011. The focus on jobs might be ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG is cutting about 40 jobs in the Asia-Pacific region as part of a global push to trim costs and combine its trading units, according to a person familiar with the matter. The staff reductions are roughly split between UBS’s markets and investment-banking teams, with a majority at the level of vice president or below, the person ...