Bloomberg Thailand’s popularity among bond investors is creating a headache for policy makers counting on exports and tourism to drive growth. Some $2.1 billion of foreign money has flowed into the nation’s debt this year, making it the top destination among Southeast Asia’s emerging markets. That’s buoying the baht, the region’s best developing-nation performer in 2017, and spurring speculation ...
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Saxo Bank introduces new tool to ease trading
Emirates Business Saxo Bank, the online multi-asset trading and investment specialist, announces on Monday that it is collaborating with Autochartist to make automated technical analysis tools and live trade signals available to clients directly in the SaxoTraderGO platform. “With the deep integration of Autochartist we further enhance the analysis tools available to clients. There is no need to open ...
Read More »Deutsche Bank reunites traders, bankers in latest overhaul
Bloomberg One year after he split Deutsche Bank AG’s investment banking and trading units, John Cryan has put them back together with a familiar mandate: fewer clients and lower costs. Cryan, chief executive officer since 2015, said that the business will focus more on corporate clients and will pare the list of fund managers and other institutions it serves. ...
Read More »Deutsche Bank board to review $8.5bn capital plan
Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG’s supervisory board will meet to discuss a plan to raise more than 8 billion euros ($8.5 billion) as Chief Executive Officer John Cryan tackles concerns about capital levels, a person familiar with the matter said. The bank confirmed a Bloomberg News story that said the lender is planning an equity offering and the sale of ...
Read More »Nordea’s mega-bank branches set off regulatory finger pointing
Bloomberg When the biggest Nordic bank turned its subsidiaries into branches, regulators in Finland, Denmark and Norway complained they were left with too-big-to fail operations but no power to rein them in. Oversight was instead left to Sweden. But the full consequences of Nordea Bank AB’s decision to consolidate its Nordic operations are only gradually becoming clear. In a ...
Read More »Morocco central bank okays five Islamic financial products
RABAT / Reuters Morocco’s central bank approved the use of five types of Islamic banking transaction, giving a final regulatory nod for the country to launch an Islamic finance industry. Islamic banks and insurers are setting up in Morocco after new legislation allowed them into the market, and the central bank has set up a central sharia board, a ...
Read More »Russia finds trail of scam behind biggest bank failure in year
Bloomberg Russia’s central bank, on the prowl for mismanaged lenders as part of an unprecedented three-year cleanup, is picking up right where it left off. The regulator revoked the licenses of two lenders, including the nation’s 42nd-biggest, Tatfondbank PJSC, after efforts to save them collapsed amid evidence of fraud. The affiliated banks are based in Tatarstan, an oil-rich and ...
Read More »Draghi keeps cool on stimulus drive amid inflation surge
Bloomberg A timeline for the end of European Central Bank stimulus is taking shape among economists. Policy makers will wait until at least June before upgrading their assessment of the risks to the euro-area recovery and won’t announce another reduction in bond purchases until September, according to most respondents in a Bloomberg survey. Tapering quantitative easing and starting to ...
Read More »â€˜Banks can’t keep EU access with shells post Brexit’
Bloomberg UK banks trying to keep access to European Union (EU) markets after Brexit will have to set up full-scale operations in the bloc, European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger said. “I do not see the ECB issuing banking licenses to empty shell companies,†she said in a speech at the London School of Economics. “I ...
Read More »Deutsche Bank nears plan to boost capital by $10.6bn
Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is nearing a plan to boost capital by more than 10 billion euros ($10.6 billion) through an equity offering and the partial sale of its asset management unit, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. The measures, which executives may review as soon as this weekend, would be a way for the bank to ...
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