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Bloomberg Barclays Plc slumped after posting a surprise drop in profit as revenue missed estimates across every major business line. Inside the corporate and investment bank, dealmakers faced a continued drought, traders fell short of hopes and the bank recorded further losses tied to its leveraged finance portfolio. At the firm’s UK franchise, the net interest margin — a key ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) will scrutinise banker bonuses after finding that compensation structures at many lenders don’t take sufficient account of risk. The indicators used by banks to set bonuses aren’t always clear and “in many instances” rely too much on financial performance instead of risk, controls or cultural and behavioral aspects, the ECB said in a newsletter ...

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc expects to put a tighter leash on hiring this year after embarking on one of the firm’s biggest rounds of job cuts ever, Chief Executive Officer David Solomon said. “We have a much tighter hiring plan in 2023,” Solomon said at a Credit Suisse Group AG conference. “We’re very focused on expenses.” Goldman last ...

  Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said it would be important for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to make appropriate decisions on monetary policy as markets change rapidly, indicating his desire for flexibility under the new governorship. Kishida was responding to questions in a parliamentary committee about his nominee for BOJ governor, Kazuo Ueda, and the future of Japan’s ...

  Bloomberg Banks are setting up meetings with fixed-income investors over the next week on behalf of Adani Group, Adani Green Energy Ltd and Adani Transmission. The calls are scheduled for February 16 and February 21, according to a person familiar with the matter. Barclays Plc, BNP Paribas SA, DBS Bank Ltd, Deutsche Bank AG, Emirates NBD Capital, ING Groep, ...

  Bloomberg India is leading a charge among Asia’s emerging-market central banks in rebuilding foreign-exchange stockpiles, which would help them defend their currencies if the dollar rebounds. India, South Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asian countries have recouped about $132 billion since November — more than half of what they lost last year — by soaking up dollar inflows, with a ...

  Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida nominated a Bank of Japan (BOJ) policy veteran and a former chief financial regulator as central bank deputies to support his pick of university professor Kazuo Ueda for the top job. The selection of Shinichi Uchida, the central bank’s executive director and Ryozo Himino, also a former finance ministry official known for his ...

  Bloomberg The Federal Reserve will likely have to keep raising interest rates to rein in price growth, which could slow economic expansion and affect the jobs market, Governor Michelle Bowman said. “We are still far from achieving price stability, and I expect that it will be necessary to further tighten monetary policy to bring inflation down towards our goal,” ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG warned part of its workforce that a former employee copied and took some of their personal data years ago, including descriptions of their compensation. The staffer, who had legitimate access to data at the time, transferred the information onto a personal device in breach of Credit Suisse policies and later left the company, the Swiss ...

  Bloomberg The policy chief for Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said the country’s easy monetary policy should be maintained, but has room for adjustment and reform. Koichi Hagiuda, head of the Policy Research Council at the LDP, made the comments on a program on national broadcaster NHK while discussing the imminent nomination of the Bank of Japan’s next ...