Banking

  Bloomberg UniCredit SpA will sell new shares for more than a third less than their current price in a 13 billion-euro ($14 billion) rights offer aimed at strengthening its capital position. The bank will sell stock at 8.09 euros a share and offer 13 new shares for every five held, the Milan-based lender said in a statement. The offer ...

  Bloomberg The number of bankers and financiers pulling down 1 million euros ($1.1 million) or more soared 33 percent to 5,142 across the European Union in 2015, the bloc’s banking regulator said. Bankers based in the UK accounted for 80 percent of the highest earners largely driven by appreciation of the pound against the euro, the European Banking Authority ...

  NEW YORK / AP A former Morgan Stanley financial adviser was arrested in Nevada on charges in New York that he stole at least $5 million from several members of a wealthy family to live lavishly, including using private jets, authorities said. Barry Connell, 50, of Chester, New Jersey, was arrested in Henderson, Nevada, on fraud and identity theft ...

  Bloomberg Buckle up, bond investors. Global reflation and fading central-bank stimulus herald a new dawn for the European corporate debt market that will buoy high-yield paper at the expense of high-grade, according to analysts at Bank of America (BofA), citing an upcoming portfolio shift among investors. “In 2016 we saw the lowest in yields and spreads,” strategists at the ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG fell the most in four months after earnings missed analysts’ estimates, in part because clients stepped back from doing business with the lender amid concern about its financial strength. The stock slumped as much as 7.1 percent, the most since September, after revenue from debt trading, its biggest source of income, fell short of estimates ...

  Bloomberg Switzerland’s financial regulator fined Coutts & Co. Ltd. for violating money-laundering rules and illegally profiting from transactions associated with Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd. Coutts, owned by Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, allowed a total of $2.4 billion worth of 1MDB-related assets to flow through accounts in Switzerland even though it had good reason to ...

  Bloomberg ING Group NV, the largest Dutch lender, said profit jumped 68 percent, more than analysts expected, as wholesale lending revenue rose while costs and bad-loan provisions fell. Underlying profit rose to 1.38 billion euros ($1.49 billion) in the fourth quarter from 822 million euros in the previous year, the Amsterdam-based bank said in a statement on Thursday. That ...

  Bloomberg Complex debt trades that started as a way for lenders to reduce their loan exposure are becoming a business opportunity for some of the world’s biggest investment banks. Others are worried they could become another source of systemic risk. Nomura Holdings Inc. and Credit Suisse Group AG are among the most-active firms earning high fees by providing loans ...

  Bloomberg Foreign holdings of Egyptian treasury bills have grown since the pound was floated three month ago, while renewed trust in the currency has sent billions of dollars into local banks. Foreigners held 10.2 billion pounds ($540 million) worth of T-bills in December, state-run news agency MENA reported, citing central bank data and without specifying how much of that ...

  Bloomberg The adoption of credit-card chip technology by US retailers is having an unintended consequence: Criminals are moving from brick-and-mortar stores to the internet. The use of stolen card data to pay for merchandise on websites, in mobile apps and by dialing call centers surged 40 percent last year, according to a report from Javelin Strategy & Research released ...