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ABU DHABI / Reuters JPMorgan is in early talks with Saudi Arabian companies about overseas listings, its investment bank chief said, raising the possibility that more firms could join oil giant Saudi Aramco in seeking an international flotation. JPMorgan is among the banks advising Aramco on an international public offering (IPO), sources have told Reuters. Aramco’s listing is part of ...

Bloomberg As John Cryan mulls steps to restore growth at Deutsche Bank AG, he’s counting on US companies’ appetite for ever more debt to help lead the charge. The Frankfurt-based lender added 24 managing directors and directors at its US corporate finance business this year, a record hiring pace, according to Mark Fedorcik, co-head of Deutsche Bank’s global capital markets ...

Bloomberg Australia’s major banks will sell fewer local currency bonds next year as property lending cools in one of the world’s most heated real estate markets. That’s the view of BlackRock Inc.’s head of fixed income in Australia Craig Vardy. The forecast concerning the lenders — some of the biggest corporate note issuers Down Under — comes as restrictions take ...

Bloomberg Nykredit Realkredit A/S is abandoning plans for an initial public offering, pulling what could have been the biggest listing of a Nordic bank in more than two decades. Denmark’s largest mortgage lender, which dominates the country’s $480 billion covered-bond market and provides home loans to about 40 percent of households, said an offer from a group of private Danish ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam said last week that bitcoin speculation is the “very definition of a bubble.” Even so, he can’t avoid it or the technology behind it. A Credit Suisse conference on digital money and blockchain last month in New York was “epic,” said Lou Kerner, a former equity analyst at Goldman Sachs ...

Bloomberg Societe Generale SA added to concerns about excessive bitcoin speculation, with the bank’s deputy head following Credit Suisse Group AG’s top executive in saying that it’s a bubble. “Bitcoin today is in my view very clearly in a bubble,” Severin Cabannes said in a Bloomberg Television interview. His comments came a day after Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam said ...

Reuters Kuwait’s Burgan Bank, the country’s third largest lender by assets, is in early discussions with banks for the refinancing of a $350 million loan due in December, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday. The bank raised the original debt facility in 2015 with a group of seven banks, including regional and international lenders. The new loan would ...

Bloomberg Reforming the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s monetary policy mandate could potentially result in lower interest rates, the new finance minister said. Requiring the central bank to target full employment as well as price stability when making rate decisions will ensure its objectives are more aligned with the well-being of New Zealanders, Grant Robertson said in a television interview ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. added $1 billion in the third quarter to what it says the bank may face in possible legal expenses. Legal costs could potentially be $3.3 billion more than what the San Francisco-based bank has reserved, Wells Fargo said in a regulatory filing. While that figure was unchanged from the previous three-month period, it constitutes a ...

Bloomberg It was President Donald Trump who dominated the headlines in monetary policy over the past 10 days with his choice of Jerome Powell to chair the US Federal Reserve. Yet the club of central bank chiefs the American is set to join has been making plenty of news. The Fed, now helmed by Janet Yellen, left itself on course ...