Bloomberg Ireland won’t change its restrictions on banker pay, its junior finance minister signalled, in the clearest sign yet that the rules will remain in place. “I’m of the view the decision is made,†Michael D’Arcy said in a Bloomberg TV interview in Hong Kong. “The bankers in those institutions are well paid. The threshold is 500,000 euros and that’s ...
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JPMorgan: It’s time to buy stocks despite trade woes
Bloomberg Now is finally the time to buy risk assets, with global stocks set to advance into the year-end, strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co said. Positive technical indicators and monetary easing will likely outweigh the uncertainty of the US-China trade war and the “wild card†of developments in tariff negotiations, according to JPMorgan. After August’s sell-off, the strategists signalled ...
Read More »Danish regulator reports Danske Bank to police on overcharging investors
Bloomberg Denmark’s financial watchdog has reported Danske Bank A/S to the police after it overcharged retail investors. The bank, which is already under criminal investigation in the US and across Europe for its role in an Estonian money laundering scandal, misled its customers about the returns they could expect on short-term investments, the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) in Copenhagen said ...
Read More »German tax case puts entire finance industry on trial
Bloomberg Germany’s most convoluted tax case in recent memory gets a human face when two former investment bankers make their debut in court. But more than the duo’s dealings, it’s the role of the financial services industry at large that will come under scrutiny. The two men, Martin S, 41, and Nicholas D, 38, are charged with helping orchestrate transactions ...
Read More »British banks face 25% earnings hit from no-deal Brexit, says Citi
Bloomberg As the likelihood of Britain crashing out of the European Union (EU) without a trading agreement rises, Citigroup Inc estimates that such an event could cut domestic banks’ earnings by as much as 25 percent. A “no-deal exit†would curtail the revenue of high street lenders as economic growth slows and interest rates remain depressed, analysts including Andrew Coombs ...
Read More »India’s Modi creates bank giants to spur economy
Bloomberg India announced its most sweeping bank overhaul in decades, minutes before data showed economic growth in Asia’s No. 3 economy slumped to a six-year low. Four new lenders that result from a series of state-bank mergers will hold business worth 55.8 trillion rupees ($781 billion), or about 56 percent of the Indian banking industry, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said ...
Read More »Facebook’s Libra rouses EU antitrust interest: Vestager
Bloomberg Facebook Inc’s Libra digital currency will be a focus for antitrust and financial regulators in the near future, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said, confirming an early-stage probe into how the new payment system will work. “From both a competition and a financial stability perspective, Libra will have our interest,†Vestager told reporters in Copenhagen. She said the EU ...
Read More »Lagarde reveals dovish ECB view in hint of post-Draghi policies
Bloomberg Incoming European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde offered a clear sign that she’s ready to follow Mario Draghi’s path and keep monetary policy ultra-loose to lift euro-area inflation. In her first comprehensive comments on monetary policy since winning the job, she said the ECB has the tools to tackle a downturn and must be ready to use them ...
Read More »Deutsche Bank, reeling from global job cuts, hires in India
Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG’s only retail banking franchise outside Europe is getting more investment, amid sweeping cost cuts and restructuring taking place elsewhere at the German lender. After receiving a 470 million euro ($520 million) capital injection earlier this year, Deutsche Bank’s Indian operation is set to hire about 140 people and boost its retail banking and wealth management operations. ...
Read More »RBA’s Debelle says threats to world trade are ‘significant risk’
Bloomberg The Australian central bank’s No. 2 official warned that current threats to the global rules-based trading system were a major risk to both his country’s economy and the world’s. Australia has been a key beneficiary of global trade, as its current account approaches its first surplus since the 1970s, Deputy Governor Guy Debelle said in Canberra. The local currency ...
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