Banking

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates on a surge in bond-trading revenue as Donald Trump’s surprise victory fueled speculation economic growth will accelerate. Net income rose to $2.35 billion, or $5.08 a share, from $765 million, or $1.27 a year earlier, when the lender set aside $1.54 billion to pay a mortgage settlement, ...

  LONDON / Reuters Citigroup hired former British foreign minister William Hague to be a senior adviser to the Wall Street bank, as Britain prepares to negotiate its exit from the European Union. Banks and investment firms have a long history of recruiting former political leaders and policymakers as advisers, and the appointment of Hague follows that of Mervyn King, ...

  Bloomberg UBS Group AG’s Sergio Ermotti said he expects to add $50 billion in assets across wealth management and asset management this year as low interest rates limit how much new business the bank takes on. “We are very selective in the way we onboard net new money in terms of profitability,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg’s ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG told senior employees on Wednesday that most of them won’t get an individual bonus for last year because of the lender’s performance. The decision affects vice presidents, directors and managing directors, as well as members of the management board, who will forgo their variable compensation, Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank said Wednesday in a memo. A “limited ...

  Bloomberg Qatar National Bank (QNB), the largest bank in the Middle East and Africa by assets, is raising a $1 billion, three-year syndicated loan in the Asian bank market, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday. The Qatari lender is not new to the international loan market and has previously raised large debt facilities in both U.S. dollars ...

  Bloomberg Morgan Stanley reported an 83 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit as fixed-income trading revenue more than doubled, surpassing analysts’ estimates. Net income climbed to $1.67 billion, or 81 cents a share, from $908 million, or 39 cents, a year earlier, the New York-based company said on Tuesday in a statement. The 2015 figure includes a 4-cent accounting charge ...

  Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. is emerging as a winner in the fight for corporate clients and investment-banking fees in Brazil as some of its competitors retreat. The US firm turned in its best showing ever last year in the South American nation, raking in more fees from merger-and-acquisition advising and debt and equity underwriting than any company except ...

  Bloomberg China is increasingly managing the flow of credit with more finely-tuned instruments than its old method of changing how much of their deposits lenders must keep locked away. Banks’ required reserve requirements haven’t changed for almost a year. Instead, the central bank has used short-term lending channels to add almost six times as much funding than would have ...

  Bloomberg Australian banks have ‘appreciably improved’ their mortgage-lending standards, the nation’s regulator said, as it left the amount of additional capital banks are required to hold as a buffer against the build-up of credit risk at zero. The pace of lending to property investors is currently at around half of the regulator’s recommended levels, and higher-risk mortgages had fallen, ...

  Bloomberg Finance executives say they are preparing for the worst on Brexit as Prime Minister Theresa May signaled she plans to pull the UK out of the European single market. “If you don’t know where you are going, you have to plan for the worst and execute faster,” HSBC Holdings Plc Chairman Douglas Flint said in a speech at ...