Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG may shift about 300 billion euros ($350 billion) from the balance sheet of its U.K. entity to Frankfurt as client trading and assets migrate to the continent following Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, according to a person familiar with the matter. The project, dubbed Bowline, calls for Frankfurt trading to go live in September ...
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Nomura India fund reaches $3.6 billion as Japan bets on PM Modi
Bloomberg The land of Abenomics is betting on Modinomics. The demand is so strong that assets of Nomura Holdings Inc.’s India equity fund quadrupled to almost 400 billion yen ($3.6 billion) in just the past year. Japanese investors owned $13 billion of Indian stocks and bonds at the end of June, the most in data going back to 2012, according ...
Read More »After a three-year hiatus, Greece to return to bond market
Bloomberg Greece will return to the bond market after a three-year hiatus, banking on investor interest in its recovery story. The country, which was the epicenter of the European sovereign crisis that began in 2009, is looking to sell five-year bonds, according to an Athens Stock Exchange filing. It is also inviting holders of 4.75 percent bonds due in 2019 ...
Read More »Chinese banks ‘that funded HNA’ halts new lending
Bloomberg Several Chinese banks that helped fund HNA Group Co.’s global acquisition spree are losing their appetite for financing the company, according to people familiar with the matter. Three of the banks have decided to stop extending new loans to HNA, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. One made the decision early ...
Read More »Uber in crosshairs as SoftBank helps rivals raise $9 billion
Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc. is at risk of losing out on another big chunk of the global market. Grab, the leading provider of ride-hailing services in Southeast Asia, said on Monday it raised $2 billion from Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. and China’s Didi Chuxing and expects to receive another $500 million from new and existing backers. The money will help ...
Read More »Wells Fargo gets regulatory questions after data breach
Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co., already in the regulatory spotlight because of last year’s fake-account scandal, is drawing renewed scrutiny after a lawyer’s unauthorized release of sensitive client details for tens of thousands of accounts belonging to wealthy customers of its brokerage unit. Regulators have started asking questions about the breach, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, ...
Read More »Latvian banks fined for breaching N Korea sanctions
Bloomberg Latvian regulators fined two more lenders over involvement in attempts to circumvent international sanctions on North Korea, bringing the total to five banks fined with the investigation continuing. Norvik Banka agreed to pay 1.3 million euros ($1.5 million) and Rietumu Banka will pay 1.6 million euros, the Financial and Capital Market Commission said in a statement. The violations — ...
Read More »Bitcoin breaches $2,000 as infighting threatens crypto perch
Bloomberg Bitcoin fell below $2,000 for the first time since May amid anxiety its dominant status is under threat. As enthusiasts consider adopting competing updates to the blockchain technology that underpins the exchange method by the end of July, it has raised the possibility of the cryptocurrency splitting in two. Bitcoin has lost about a third of its value since ...
Read More »JPMorgan whistle-blowers to reap record US$61 million bounty
Bloomberg Two whistle-blowers are set to share a record $61 million award from the Securities and Exchange Commission for helping make the case that JPMorgan Chase & Co. failed to disclose to wealthy clients that it was steering them into investments that would be most profitable for the bank. The SEC issued letters notifying six whistle-blower applicants of the preliminary ...
Read More »Credit Suisse’s ‘mighty’ stocks unit withers under Thiam
Bloomberg In October 2015, Credit Suisse Group AG Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam and the head of its markets unit, Timothy O’Hara, laid out their vision for a business they said would be key to overhauling one of the world’s biggest investment banks. “Credit Suisse has consistently been a top-three trader of global stocks since 2010,†O’Hara, a 27-year veteran ...
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