Banking

Bloomberg InvestaBank, the Mexican lender that agreed in 2016 to buy Deutsche Bank AG’s Mexico units, is considering steps to renegotiate the $175 million purchase, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The Mexico-based firm may seek to lower the price after regulatory changes wiped out most of the revenue the German lender generated through its monopoly on ...

Bloomberg The US agency responsible for insuring bank deposits sued more than a dozen of the world’s biggest lenders, accusing them of contributing to the collapse of Puerto Rico’s Doral Bank by manipulating the benchmark Libor interest rate. The collapse of San Juan-based Doral was the biggest US bank failure of 2015. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., its receiver in ...

Bloomberg Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc pays its female staff on average 37 percent less than men at the bank, joining Lloyds Banking Group Plc and Standard Life Aberdeen Plc in revealing an acute gender imbalance between employees under new disclosure requirements. Women at RBS receive average bonuses that are 64 percent lower than male employees, the bank said ...

Bloomberg While Barclays Plc’s torrid 2017 ended on a mixed note, Jes Staley sees better things to come. Income from dealing stocks, bonds and currencies fell 18 percent, according to the bank’s fourth-quarter earnings report. That beat both the 26 percent decline estimated by UBS Group AG and the average 25 percent drop in markets revenue posted by Wall Street ...

Bloomberg European authorities moved to liquidate Latvia’s ABLV Bank AS after clients pulled assets from the lender following US accusations that it laundered money. The European Central Bank, which had already placed a freeze on payments by the lender, said that ABLV was failing or likely to fail, handing it over to Europe’s Single Resolution Board. That authority said a ...

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc., one of the world’s largest credit-card issuers, said it will refund $335 million to US customers whose annual percentage rate should have been lower. The lender determined that a method it was using to calculate APRs didn’t properly reflect the full benefit customers should have received for good behaviour, such as paying on time, the New York-based ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. said that its female employees earn 99 percent of what male employees make globally, making it the fifth large US bank to disclose an adjusted gender pay gap of around one percent. People of color employed by the bank earned more than 99 percent of what white workers made, according to an internal note sent ...

Bloomberg Royal Bank of Canada, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, isn’t hurting from a slowing housing market — yet. The Toronto-based bank reported 6.4 percent growth in Canadian residential mortgages in the fiscal first quarter, with average balances climbing to C$238.5 billion ($187.6 billion). That’s down from the 6.6 percent growth rate in the fourth quarter, though it’s still the ...

Bloomberg Four traders charged in the UK for rigging interest-rate benchmarks at Deutsche Bank AG will escape prosecution after German officials refused requests to send them to London to face trial. Frankfurt prosecutors decided not to turn the men over almost two years after the UK’s Serious Fraud Office first sought extradition. The final decision on the former traders was ...

Bloomberg The banking crisis engulfing the tiny nation of Latvia has turned into a potential diplomatic incident, as Riga points the finger at Moscow. “There is a high probability that an externally organised widespread information operation is being carried out that, by its structure and execution, is identical to those observed in pre-election periods in the US, France and Germany,” ...