Banking

Dubai / emirates business Noor Bank on Monday announced that it has become the first bank in the UAE to implement the Dubai font across internal platforms. Employees of the bank will apply the iconic font to all documents created in Microsoft Office programmes. The transition from Arial to the Dubai font is in line with Noor Bank’s vision of ...

Dubai / Emirates Business SWIFT announces on Sunday that Mashreq Bank has signed up for its global payments innovation (gpi) service, to become the first bank in the Middle East to join this international initiative. The bank will be joining forces with 100 leading banks globally. SWIFT gpi dramatically improves the customer experience in cross-border payments by increasing the speed, ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Noor Bank, a leading Shari’a-compliant bank in the UAE, announced that it joined the region’s prominent financial, legal and insurance institutions as a Gold Sponsor at the latest edition of the Bonds, Loans & Sukuk Middle East conference. Organised by GFC Media Group, the region’s largest finance and investment conference convenes high-profile issuers, investors, bankers, legal ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. will pay bigger sign-on bonuses to some new brokers as competitors including Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp. seek to reduce recruitment inducements. The Wells Fargo Advisors unit plans to offer better pay packages to brokers who oversee the largest books of business as it seeks to woo more big producers, reports said. The ...

Bloomberg The South African Reserve Bank left its key rate unchanged for a seventh straight meeting as policy makers warned politics and ratings downgrades could still knock the rand and scupper an improving inflation outlook. The Monetary Policy Committee maintained the benchmark repurchase rate at 7 percent, Governor Lesetja Kganyago told reporters in the capital, Pretoria. The decision was in ...

Bloomberg Alan Tay Yeow Kee, a former CIMB Group Holdings Bhd. banker, admitted to insider trading on two stocks before the companies received takeover offers. Tay, 41, pleaded guilty to trading on price-sensitive information in a Singapore State Court and was fined S$180,000 ($130,000). He bought shares in Qualitas Medical Group Ltd. and welding products supplier Leeden Ltd. in 2011 ...

Bloomberg Creditors of Azerbaijan’s biggest bank are taking steps to block terms outlined by the lender earlier this week in a $3.3 billion debt restructuring, according to two members of the investor group. Debtholders of the International Bank of Azerbaijan are arguing their voting rights were diluted by the inclusion in the restructuring of a $1 billion deposit owed to ...

Bloomberg Bank of Montreal’s US push hit a speed bump in the second quarter as higher loan losses eroded earnings from its Chicago-based BMO Harris Bank. The lender set aside C$259 million ($192 million) for soured loans, up 29 percent from a year earlier and the highest since at least 2011, tied largely to U.S. personal and commercial banking and ...

Bloomberg State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender by assets, picked Bank of America Corp. and Deutsche Bank AG to arrange a share sale that could raise about $2 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said. The lender also chose IIFL Holdings Ltd., Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., JM Financial Ltd. and SBI Capital Markets Ltd. to work on ...

Bloomberg Royal Bank of Canada’s (RCB) acquisition of City National Bank is paying dividends. The Los Angeles-based lender contributed C$77 million ($57 million) in profit for the fiscal second quarter, helping fuel a 12 percent jump in earnings for Royal Bank’s wealth-management division. This marks the fifth quarter of results since the Canadian lender bought Hollywood’s “bank to the stars” ...