Banking

Bloomberg Resilient economic growth and a government campaign against excessive leverage are helping China’s largest banks, curbing their bad loans and underpinning their net interest margins. Those factors helped three of the big banks post higher-than-estimated second-quarter net income, led by Bank of China Ltd.’s 23 percent surge, the biggest increase in six years. Largest rival Industrial & Commercial Bank ...

Reuters Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is talking to governments and state-linked entities in the Gulf that are interested in issuing yuan-denominated bonds in China, said an executive at ICBC, China’s largest bank. One government entity is in the process of applying to issue such instruments, known as panda bonds, which would make it the first issuer from the ...

Reuters Nigeria’s United Bank for Africa (UBA) said it had made a provision on loans made to 9mobile, the mobile operator formerly known as Etisalat Nigeria. The lender did not give details of the provision but said it had a $125 million exposure to 9mobile. UBA said the exposure was secured, and part of a syndicated loan with 12 other ...

Bloomberg The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index extended its Asia session gain with investors continuing to unwind their short dollar exposure across the board as the gauge rebounded from its lowest level since January 2015. The greenback’s relief rally saw the euro slide a second day, set for its first two-day decline in two weeks. Euro-dollar was 0.2 percent lower at ...

Bloomberg Russia’s slow-motion banking crisis claimed its biggest victim yet, forcing the central bank to provide support for other lenders to prevent panic from spreading. Bank Otkritie FC, a month removed from being Russia’s biggest private lender, was taken over by a government-backed fund set up by the central bank to consolidate the sector. The move will place at least ...

Bloomberg A logjam is looming at the Bank of England as almost 80 foreign banks that are operating UK branches decide on their future in post-Brexit Britain. The first choice for lenders from the European Union using the passporting mechanism for their UK business— a device that will no longer be available after Brexit— is whether to stay or go. ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co. and Comerica Inc. are among banks waiving ATM fees for Houston-area customers following flooding from Hurricane Harvey. JPMorgan will also forgo collecting late fees for mortgage, credit card, business banking and auto loans, and will temporarily suspend monthly service and overdraft charges on deposit accounts, the firm said. Wells Fargo also ...

Bloomberg Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo is banking on good news from the International Monetary Fund after his predecessor derailed an economic recovery plan through overspending. As the nation awaits the outcome of a review from the Washington-based lender, which may come as soon as Wednesday, on reforms since Ghana entered a $918 million credit programme with the lender in 2015, ...

Bloomberg The euro advanced to its strongest level in more than two years, hours after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan. Core European bonds rallied as risk-off sentiment spread across the globe. Europe’s common currency gained for a third day even as South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered a show of force in response, which traders said highlighted ...

Bloomberg Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili sued Credit Suisse Group AG in Singapore, New Zealand and Bermuda, alleging the bank must have known about the actions of a former employee who forged trades to cover losses from other customers’ accounts. Ivanishvili, an ex-prime minister of the former Soviet republic, filed the claims in Auckland at the New Zealand High Court on ...