Banking

  Bloomberg The Bank of Canada (BOC) will soon be allowed to retain some of its earnings to offset financial losses, which could persist for years as the central bank raises rates and reverses its early-pandemic emergency programs, Governor Tiff Macklem said. The government plans to amend legislation to “allow, on a temporary basis, the Bank of Canada to retain ...

  Bloomberg Morgan Stanley fined some of its own bankers more than $1 million each for conducting business on WhatsApp and other messaging platforms, the latest fallout from an industrywide probe that saw US regulators impose the record penalties for monitoring lapses. The funds have either been clawed back from previous bonuses or will be docked from future pay, according ...

  Bloomberg Bank Indonesia has delivered enough interest-rate increases, according to Governor Perry Warjiyo, who signalled that this round of tightening is coming to an end as the Federal Reserve also winds down. The Fed rate will likely peak at 5.25%, with a chance of easing to 5% by the end of this year as US inflation cools, Warjiyo told ...

  Bloomberg British retail bank TSB’s profit jumped in 2022 on the back of the Bank of England’s interest rate increases and “strong growth” in mortgage volumes. The lender’s full-year pretax profit rose 16.5% to £184 million ($228 million) compared to 2021, TSB’s owner Banco de Sabadell SA said on Thursday. Net interest income — the money a bank makes ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) has agreed a 3.5% pay rise for its 4,200 staff and a one-off 1% salary top-up this year under a sub-inflation deal that has been accepted by the union. The increase in the overall pay pot will be targeted at lower paid staff to protect them against the worst of the living standards ...

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) is rewarding the majority of its employees with a pool of restricted stock, boosting compensation to retain workers in an otherwise gloomy economic environment. The incentive, which comes on top of regular compensation, goes to staff who earn up to $500,000 in total annual pay, according to a memo from CEO Brian Moynihan. About 96% ...

Bloomberg The central bank of Nigeria expects at least 2 trillion naira ($4.3 billion) of cash to return to banks by January 31 when the deadline to replace high-value currency notes ends. Residents exchanged as much as 1.5 trillion naira of the old notes as of last week, Governor Godwin Emefiele told reporters in Abuja. “We are hoping that getting ...

  Bloomberg Barclays Plc is appointing Taylor Wright and Credit Suisse Group AG veteran Cathal Deasy as its new investment banking chiefs in a major reshuffle of its top dealmaking ranks. John Miller and Jean-Francois Astier, the current co-heads of investment banking at the UK firm, are set to leave those roles, according to an internal memo seen by Bloomberg ...

  Bloomberg Sri Lanka kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a fourth straight meeting as Asia’s fastest inflation showed signs of cooling while bankrupt economy seeks to turn the corner pending a crucial bailout. The central bank of Sri Lanka held the standing lending facility rate at 15.5% on Wednesday, a move predicted by all five economists in a ...

  Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA’s Frankfurt offices were raided by German prosecutors as part of their vast investigation into the controversial Cum-Ex scandal that has swept up Wall Street’s biggest banks. A spokesperson for the bank confirmed the search and said it’s cooperating. A Cologne prosecutors’ spokesman said that the agency raiding a bank in Frankfurt since January 24 without ...