Banking

  Bloomberg Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc rose the most in two months in London trading after the bank took a 3.1 billion-pound ($3.8 billion) charge in a step toward resolving a US probe into sales of mortgage securities. The lender is continuing to cooperate with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on its investigation, though timing of a ...

  Bloomberg Commodities will be supported in the months ahead by a global rebound spanning the US, Europe and China that’s buttressing worldwide demand for raw materials, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “We’re seeing a cyclical uptick in global economic activity and that’s driving demand, not only for oil but all commodities,” Jeffrey Currie, head of commodities research, said ...

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG is exploring options for expanding in Dublin, as the UK moves closer to exiting the European Union, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Irish capital is emerging as a favored location for the bank’s so-called back-office jobs, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because a final ...

  Bloomberg Barclays Plc’s Asia-Pacific Chief Executive Officer Andy Jones is stepping down, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg. Jaideep Khanna and Reid Marsh will replace Jones as co-heads for the region, the memo showed. Jones, who will return to the U.K. in the first half of this year, will take on a temporary role as vice chairman, according ...

  Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. charged some homebuyers fees to extend promised interest rates when the bank failed to process their mortgage applications on time, ProPublica reported, citing four former employees from the Los Angeles area. The practice, apparently limited to that region, broke with the company’s policy of eating the fees when it was at fault for delays, ...

  Bloomberg BlackRock Inc. yanked custody services from State Street Corp. on more than $1 trillion in client assets as the asset manager seeks to cut costs by putting pressure on vendors. The move of assets to JPMorgan Chase & Co. is part of BlackRock’s strategy to exact lower fees, according to a person familiar with the matter. The bank ...

  Bloomberg Thailand is due to roll out a national digital-payment system that levies much smaller transaction fees than the nation’s banks. Yet lenders expect the network to help rather than hinder them financially. Commercial banks could save some 77 billion baht ($2.18 billion) in the next 10 years as the so-called PromptPay service curbs the use of cash, according ...

  Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co., the lender struggling to recover from a scandal involving bogus customer accounts, is eliminating its practice of giving retail bankers a day’s notice before internal inspectors visit a branch. The bank’s “branch control review process has evolved over the years to consist of electronic, centralized documents that are reviewed outside and in advance of ...

  Bloomberg Bank of Montreal (BMO) expects to capture a bigger share of US dealmaking in 2017 by winning more mandates for advising on takeovers and managing stock sales, building off its most successful year in US capital markets. “In a challenging year in ’16 we managed to take market share,” Peter Myers, 57, head of US investment and corporate ...

  Bloomberg Banco Santander SA Chairman Ana Botin said she expects growth in all of the lenders’ markets in 2017 after Spain’s largest bank reported fourth-quarter profit that beat estimates. The shares jumped. Net income rose to 1.6 billion euros ($1.72 billion) compared with 25 million euros a year earlier when profit was hit by charges, including provisions for the ...