Banking

Bloomberg Argentine banks are willing to pay top dollar to hold onto their customers’ greenbacks. As the country’s financial crisis deepens, savers are withdrawing their dollar deposits from their accounts. But the banks are striving to retain them by paying the highest returns in more than 3 years, while the Central Bank adopts measures to provide liquidity and guarantee supplies ...

Bloomberg Two former London investment bankers appeared in court in Germany’s first trial targeting a complex trading strategy that racked up massive tax losses for the nation’s treasury. The British men, who can only be identified as Martin S, 41, and Nicholas D, 38, appeared in a court in the city of Bonn, charged with helping to orchestrate so called ...

Bloomberg Want a glimpse into how vulnerable Ireland is to a messy Brexit? Look at its banks. Amid Brexit hardliner Boris Johnson’s rise to British prime minister, Bank of Ireland Group Plc is down 25 percent. AIB Group Plc has slumped 37 percent, making it the worst performer in the Euro Stoxx Banks Index since the end of June, as ...

Bloomberg Investors knocked down shares of India’s large state-run banks after the government unveiled its plan to merge several of the lenders, amid concerns that the integration process might delay a bad-loan cleanup and slow lending approvals. The four key large lenders at the center of the merged groups — Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Union Bank of India and ...

Bloomberg Lloyds Banking Group Plc is snapping up Tesco Plc’s mortgage portfolio for about 3.8 billion pounds ($4.6 billion) as the British bank bets the UK economy will hold up despite the prospects of a disorderly Brexit. The country’s biggest mortgage lender is tightening its grip, acquiring over 23,000 mortgage customers as part of the deal, according to statements from ...

Bloomberg Seven providers of mobile payment services owned in large part by banks are building a pan-European network, as traditional lenders seek to counter the growing competition from fintechs and global technology giants like Apple Inc. Danske Bank A/S’s MobilePay, which operates in Denmark and Finland, said the association is designed to pave the way for cross-border transactions for as ...

Bloomberg The Swiss National Bank’s introduction of negative interest rates didn’t lead to a “substantial change” in the public’s demand for cash, according to President Thomas Jordan. Jordan spoke in Bern on Tuesday, just over a week before European Central Bank (ECB) policy makers are expected to boost monetary stimulus, which could add to pressure on the Swiss franc and ...

Bloomberg Pockets of job growth are offsetting some of the dramatic cuts at the world’s largest lenders. Bank of America Corp (Bofa), Wells Fargo & Co, HSBC Holdings Plc and Credit Suisse Group AG added some 12,000 jobs in the first half of the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, meaning aggregate staff levels at 16 of the largest ...

Bloomberg A regional Chinese lender under the spotlight for liquidity strains plans to suspend dividend payments on its offshore preference shares, sending indicated prices on those securities tumbling. Bank of Jinzhou Co, which was the subject of a government-orchestrated rescue in July, said that it’s seeking shareholder approval to halt dividends for the year through October 26. That’s after its ...

Bloomberg Swiss National Bank sight deposits fell for the first time in seven weeks, suggesting the central bank has scaled back interventions to weaken the franc. Sight deposits, considered an early indicator of SNB market activity, declined 154 million francs ($155 billion). They had risen by 2.5 billion francs the previous week, and 3.8 billion francs the period before that. ...