Banking

BLOOMBERG Citigroup Inc has hired Credit Suisse investment banker Scott Bardo as it seeks to beef up its ranks of health-care dealmakers. Bardo is set to join Citigroup as a managing director and head of medical technology, life sciences tools and diagnostics for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to an internal memo seen by Bloomberg News. He will ...

BLOOMBERG Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFJ) Financial Group  Inc has mandated banks to sell dollar-denominated Additional Tier 1 bonds, in what looks set to be the first such offering in the US currency by any Japanese lender. The nation’s banks have long issued AT1 notes in yen because of lower borrowing costs. But they may consider selling such debt in dollars to ...

BLOOMBERG DBS Group Holdings and Citigroup said banking facilities have resumed following a disruption that prevented customers from fulfilling transactions across various platforms. Services are working again after a technical issue at an Equinix Inc data centre used by the lenders was resolved. Payment services were down for several hours, and customers cited the inability to use their cards, access ...

BLOOMBERG Deutsche Bank AG’s sales of foreign-exchange derivatives to small companies in Spain are being examined by securities regulator CNMV, adding to scrutiny of the lender over the matter. The focus of the assessment is whether the sales complied with rules that effectively ban marketing complex derivatives to inexperienced buyers, a spokesman for the regulator said. He declined to provide ...

BLOOMBERG The Bank of England (BOE) warned that house prices are likely to fall further in many economies and flagged significant downside risks in the Chinese property market. A further deterioration in activity and prices could pose risks to the Chinese economy and financial sector, which could spill over into the UK and other jurisdictions, the central bank said in ...

BLOOMBERG Italy began the process of selling Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA by hiring advisers as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni seeks to maximise the value of the state’s controlling stake. The Finance Ministry will select legal and financial advisers to help in the sale, the ministry said in a statement. The disposal can be done in one or ...

BLOOMBERG India’s rupee will not drop past the 84-per dollar mark even if the greenback strengthens further from current levels as the nation’s central bank will step in to defend the currency, according to Standard Chartered (StanChart). “The Reserve Bank of India has been protecting rupee from depreciating very sharply,” Parul Mittal Sinha, head of India financial markets at the ...

BLOOMBERG Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is cleaning up City National Bank’s balance sheet after the US lender posted a money-losing quarter amid higher rates and the crisis of confidence at regional banks. RBC made a capital injection into City National and bought debt securities from it, boosting the Los Angeles-based division’s liquidity and capital and allowing it to pay ...

BLOOMBERG The US Department of Justice  (DOJ) has stepped up its probe into Credit Suisse Group and UBS Group AG over suspected compliance failures that allowed Russian clients to evade sanctions, according to people familiar with the situation. What began as a series of subpoenas sent to a range of banks early this year has developed into a full-scale investigation ...

BLOOMBERG Three years and nearly $1 billion later, Wells Fargo & Co is finally playing offense in one of Wall Street’s hottest battlegrounds: wealth management. The banking giant is trying to lure hundreds of independent advisers to join its platform as part of a larger push to expand the firm’s business catering to rich clients, according to Barry Sommers, who ...