Banking

Bloomberg Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA’s (BBVA) Mexican business shrugged off an economic slowdown in the country, helping the Spanish bank make up for the effect of ultra-low interest rates in Europe. The Mexico unit posted its highest quarterly profit in at least a decade, helping BBVA report group earnings that beat analyst estimates. That bucks a trend among Spanish ...

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc is preparing to cut hundreds of jobs in its trading division — stark new evidence that an industrywide slump in revenue this year may be more permanent than the tweets and policy moves rattling clients. The New York-based bank plans to slash jobs across its fixed-income and stock-trading operations over the course of 2019, according to people ...

Bloomberg Sweden’s economy unexpectedly shrank in the second quarter, casting further doubts on the Riksbank’s plans to continue to raise rates. Gross domestic product contracted 0.1 percent in the second quarter from the first, according to preliminary numbers from Statistics Sweden. Economists had predicted an expansion of 0.3 percent. Annual growth was 1.4 percent while economists and the Riksbank had ...

Bloomberg Whitbread Plc Chief Executive Officer Alison Brittain has been approached as a candidate to succeed Ross McEwan as boss of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group Plc, adding to signs the lender is broadening its search as it seeks a new leader. Brittain, who has run the British hotel and restaurant operator for nearly four years, is one of ...

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan said it’s “more positive” about adding monetary stimulus as it eyes a global shift in which the Federal Reserve is set to cut interest rates on Wednesday for the first time since 2008. While Governor Haruhiko Kuroda kept policy unchanged despite trimming inflation forecasts, he added a phrase to the policy statement saying the BOJ ...

Bloomberg As the world sinks into an era of ever-lower interest rates and a chasm of negative-yielding bonds, Japan’s experience offers investors an invaluable precedent. It’s two decades since the nation pioneered zero rates and more than six years into central bank chief Haruhiko Kuroda’s record stimulus. The money managers who’ve witnessed it all provide unique insights into strategies to ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump attacked the Federal Reserve in a tweet on Monday, saying the US central bank “probably will do very little” to counteract actions by Europe and China to ease monetary policy. Fed officials are widely expected to lower interest rates by a quarter-percentage point when they meet on Tuesday and on Wednesday in Washington. Trump has been ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co is hoping to a grab a larger slice of Germany’s private-banking market as wealthy individuals increasingly turn to international companies for advice. Traditionally, rich Germans have often maintained loyal relationships with one local lender and one from Switzerland, according to HakanStraengh, who runs JPMorgan’s private-banking business in Germany from Frankfurt. However, the company is seeing ...

Bloomberg Each year, banks reap billions of dollars from overdraft and other fees. A new analysis of more than 500,000 US users on investing app Stash found women pay a disproportionate amount of those penalties. Male Stash users, the survey found, pay $182 per year in fees, while women pay $214, or 18 percent more. That includes late fees as ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co and UBS Group AG are among five banks being sued over allegations of foreign-exchange rigging in a class-action lawsuit seeking more than 1 billion pounds ($1.2 billion). Barclays Plc, Citigroup Inc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc are the other three targets of the UK suit that will say pension funds, asset managers, hedge ...