Banking

Bloomberg Half of Britons say that the UK’s departure from the European Union has pushed up their expectations for price growth, a Bank of England (BOE) survey showed. Inflation expectations for the coming year stood at 3.3 percent in August, the BOE said, the highest since 2013 and up from 3.1 percent in May. Consumers are slightly more optimistic about ...

Bloomberg A prolonged shadow-banking crisis and hurdles in bankruptcy rules are set to keep India atop the world’s worst bad-debt pile, even as Italy, which held the title previously, quickens the clean-up of its lenders. Moody’s Investors Service to Credit Suisse Group AG warned that more loans may sour in the Asian nation’s banking system. More than 2.4 percent of ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc is making another bet on a Latin American financial-technology startup, providing a secured credit facility of as much as $100 million to Mexico’s Konfio. The transaction will help Konfio, which provides unsecured working capital to small and midsize companies, lend about $250 million in the next 12 months, according to David Arana, the fintech’s chief ...

Bloomberg Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has told large US banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc and American Express Co they should do more to help black- and women-owned community banks win federal contracts. Mnuchin in a letter asked some of the country’s biggest banks to participate in the Financial Agent Mentor-Protege Program, in which large lenders counsel their smaller rivals ...

Bloomberg Ghana’s central bank has additional space to loosen policy thanks to the global move toward lower interest rates, as long as inflation slows, according to Governor Ernest Addison. “We are on a good disinflation path,” Addison said in an interview with Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town. “Inflation has continued to come down ...

Bloomberg The UK Labour Party would seek to ban excessive bonuses for bankers if it came to power, unless the financial industry takes steps to curb excessive payments. John McDonnell, Labour’s Treasury spokesman, told the Financial Times he wanted to issue a warning to the finance industry that he would “take action” if it “hasn’t learnt its lesson.” A spokesman ...

Bloomberg German financial regulators are concerned about Deutsche Bank AG’s appointment of Juerg Zeltner to the supervisory board because his role as wealth management executive could pose conflicts of interest. They worry that Zeltner’s job running KBL European Private Bankers SA is incompatible with his oversight role at Deutsche Bank, according to people briefed on the matter. If the bank ...

Bloomberg Europe’s top banking executives ratcheted up criticism of negative interest rates ahead of a key European Central Bank (ECB) meeting, warning of severe consequences to asset prices and the broader economy. Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing warned that more monetary easing by the European Central Bank, as widely expected next week, will have “grave side effects” ...

Bloomberg Two major UK lenders warned that a last-minute rush by compensation-seeking customers will make the most expensive scandal in British banking even costlier. Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc said it plans to set aside as much as 900 million pounds ($1.1 billion) more for claims related to payment protection insurance (PPI) that customers didn’t want or need. The ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc enlisted another investment banker in the effort to revive its trading unit. Marc Nachmann was named co-head of the firm’s trading division, replacing Marty Chavez, who will leave the firm at the end of this year. Nachmann, a 25-year veteran of the firm, has been co-head of the investment banking business since 2017. David Solomon, ...