Banking

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. retail clients who don’t live in the US will no longer be able to keep investment accounts as the bank shuts a business that it’s operated for decades. “After careful review, we’ve decided to no longer service Chase retail investment accounts to non-US residents,” said Elizabeth Seymour, a JPMorgan spokeswoman. “This decision allows us to ...

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. is restructuring its consumer-banking operation in a shake-up that includes the departure of its global credit-card chief. Judson Linville, who ran the world’s largest portfolio of credit-card loans, is leaving as the bank merges that business with its wealth and retail units in the US, according to an internal memo from Stephen Bird, who leads Citigroup’s global ...

Bloomberg Higher Canadian interest rates don’t appear to be worsening the pain for consumers, yet. Some 53 percent of Canadians say rising borrowing costs haven’t had a negative impact on their personal spending, according to a survey by Nanos Research taken earlier this month. Around 43 percent of respondents say they are feeling at least somewhat of a pinch, with ...

Bloomberg Bank of East Asia Ltd. slumped the most since July 2015 following news it will be cut from Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index along with China Merchants Port Holdings Co., which also tumbled. BEA closed down 5.8 percent on Monday, making it the worst performer on the Hong Kong benchmark, even after paring some earlier losses. China Merchants Port ...

Bloomberg Malaysia has a higher proportion of female investment bank chiefs than any other big country. In the male-dominated world of investment banking, women are increasingly rising to the top in a place you might not think to look. Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim country better known for its recent political turbulence than its gender diversity, now has female bosses at ...

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley is promoting a pair of dealmakers in Southeast Asia, with one banker rising from intern to a senior position in just seven years. The US firm has appointed Jannie Tsuei, who started as an intern in New York in 2011, as chief operating officer for Southeast Asia investment banking, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg. ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG has almost finished restructuring its Asian investment-banking business and plans to add bankers in the coming months, said regional head James McMurdo. “Yes we did trim, but we trimmed where we thought we were less competitive, or where we thought the opportunity was not that significant and that has largely been completed,” McMurdo, who leads corporate ...

Bloomberg The internationalisation of the yuan has happened “earlier than expected,” but China should be keeping a low profile and not push it aggressively, former central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said. The loss of trust in the dollar after the global financial crisis and other external events were factors increasing the use of the currency internationally, and China cannot force ...

Bloomberg Barclays Plc, one of Europe’s biggest investment banks, hired a team of equity analysts from rival Societe Generale SA as Chief Executive Officer Jes Staley seeks to make more money from trading stocks. Warren Ackerman has joined from the French bank as head of European consumer equity research along with Michael Sanderson, who will be Barclays’s co-head of diversified ...

Bloomberg The coming week may prove to be a crucial one for the Indonesian rupiah. As Wednesday’s policy decision approaches, Bank Indonesia finds itself under pressure to raise the benchmark rate again even after increasing it by a combined 100 basis points since mid-May to stem a slide in the currency. Rupiah headwinds have steadily increased in recent weeks and ...