Banking

Bloomberg A Bank of England (BOE) note with a face value of 10 pounds ($13) has sold for more than 700-times that amount at auction as Britain’s obsession with collectible new note issues shows no sign of abating. The tenner, as the bills are known in the UK, has the serial number AA01 000010 and sold for 7,200 pounds — ...

Bloomberg Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) Chairman Howard Davies said details of a post-Brexit transitional deal with the European Union need to be outlined in the next five months to stop more financial-services jobs from leaving London. “If there are no details by the first quarter of next year, the number of moves of people out of London ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s money shortage has seen card and mobile-money payments eclipse cash sales at the nation’s retailers, throttling suppliers’ stock of hard currency needed to put goods on shelves and forcing up food prices. Cash transactions have shrunk to about 2 percent of daily takings across the 33-store Spar Zimbabwe chain, from 60 percent a year ago, Managing Director Terence ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. is wrapping up one of its worst years ever by passing a baton to Washington’s new favourite financial-industry villain: Equifax Inc. Executives from both companies will travel to Capitol Hill this week to testify in overlapping hearings about efforts to aid customers stung by lapses at their firms. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle ...

Bloomberg Catalonia’s biggest banks are getting closer to leaving the politically volatile region as customers signaled that a declaration of independence would prompt them to pull their deposits. Banco Sabadell SA confirmed it will move its headquarters to the Spanish city of Alicante, while CaixaBank SA’s board will consider transferring its registered office to the Balearic Islands, said a person ...

Bloomberg Singapore and Thailand are in discussions about connecting their national digital payment systems to forge an unprecedented regional alliance, as officials step up efforts to curb the use of cash. The link would bring together Southeast Asia’s first national digital-payment platforms, Singapore’s PayNow and Thailand’s PromptPay, said Naphongthawat Phothikit, director of payment systems policy at the Bank of Thailand. ...

Bloomberg Leverage debt guidelines set up to help prevent a rerun of the financial crisis are losing adherents under the Trump administration. With the say-so of the Treasury Department, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is among underwriters of leveraged buyouts arranging deals that skirt guidance designed to contain excessive leverage that left banks with more than $200 billion of unsellable LBO ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government tapped Rajnish Kumar to helm State Bank of India (SBI), handing him the task of curtailing a surge in bad debts at the nation’s biggest lender. Kumar, who has headed the state-run bank’s domestic lending business since November 2015, was elected chairman on Saturday as Arundhati Bhattacharya’s four-year term ends, the government said in ...

Bloomberg With just four words, Mark Johnson allegedly passed a secretive signal to fellow HSBC Holdings Plc currency traders to launch a buying spree of pounds: “My watch is off.” The bank’s former global head of foreign exchange alerted the traders around the globe via phone calls and chat messages, prosecutors at Johnson’s fraud trial say. The gambit in December ...

Bloomberg Egypt’s central bank will increase the reserve requirement for lenders next week, potentially paving the way for cutting interest rates even as it battles soaring inflation triggered by a sharp currency devaluation. The reserve ratio, used to control money supply, will increase to 14 percent from 10 percent from October 10, the regulator said. It said the measure was ...