Banking

Bloomberg Writedowns of underperforming loans drove Social Finance Inc. (SoFi) to a second-quarter adjusted loss of about $200 million, according to people familiar with the matter. The student-loan refinancer, which has been trying to transform itself into a broader online financial-services company, took a one-time charge on loans originated before the second quarter, one of the people said. The company ...

Bloomberg Credit Agricole SA’s investment bank and retail business are both benefiting from the thirst for credit. Financing revenue jumped 17 percent in the second quarter after the bank provided advice and arranged debt financing on large deals including Altran Technologies SA’s takeover of Aricent Inc., helping the investment bank beat estimates. The bank’s French LCL retail business also did ...

Bloomberg American International Group Inc. fell 2.7 percent after second-quarter earnings came in below estimates as a restructuring expense hurt results. Profit in the period fell from a year earlier as private equity and hedge fund performance weakened, the New York-based insurer said in a statement. Net investment income, which declined 12 percent to $3.1 billion, is on target for ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. disclosed another round of lapses and potential scandals in a quarterly report, saying it faces a US inquiry into its purchase of low-income housing credits and conceding it may have unnecessarily foreclosed on about 400 homeowners. Government agencies are examining how Wells Fargo negotiated and purchased “certain federal low-income housing tax credits in connection with ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG had the credit rating of a class of debt cut to the lowest-investment grade level by Moody’s Investors Service after a change in German law last month paved the way for a more senior kind of borrowing. Moody’s downgraded the bank’s senior debt to Baa3 from Baa2 and reclassified the bonds as “junior senior” debt. The ...

Bloomberg Canada’s economy is gaining strength instead of buckling amid a trade fight with the US. Exports rose to a record high in June even as President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum, and gross domestic product expanded in May at its fastest clip in a year, according to data released this week by Statistics Canada. That has ...

Bloomberg The Bank of England’s latest interest-rate increase has become another battleground in the vitriolic Brexit debate — yet many of the arguments overlook Governor Mark Carney’s reasoning. Despite Carney’s press conference and media interviews, some politicians and economists have been quick to call the move a mistake ahead of Britain’s departure from the European Union, while others said it ...

Bloomberg Argentina’s central bank is said to be discussing a repo loan of as much as $5 billion with foreign banks, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The talks with banks including HSBC Holdings Plc, UBS Group AG and Nomura Holdings Inc. are expected to continue into next week as the central bank considers its options to secure ...

Bloomberg The newest large bank trade group has hired a longtime JPMorgan Chase & Co. lobbyist to run its advocacy and communications efforts. Kate Childress, who helped lead JPMorgan’s lobbying and regulatory efforts on the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, will join the Bank Policy Institute in September, the association announced. The hiring is a do-over for the policy institute, which had ...

Bloomberg Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA rode lower costs and an asset sale to a second straight quarter of profit, even though a sharp drop in the value of Italian state debt hit revenue and eroded capital. Second-quarter net income totalled $117 million, the Siena, Italy based bank said in a statement, confirming progress toward a turnaround after ...