Banking

  Bloomberg Federal Reserve officials cleared dozens of US banks to boost shareholder payouts after conducting annual stress tests that proved too rigorous, again, for subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank AG and Banco Santander SA. JPMorgan Chase & Co, Citigroup Inc, Bank of America Corp and 27 other firms with major US operations passed the exam on Wednesday, with many unveiling ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG, which runs Europe’s biggest investment bank, may be the biggest contributor to systemic risk among the largest lenders, according to the International Monetary Fund. Deutsche Bank “appears to be the most important net contributor to systemic risks” among global systemically important banks, or G-SIBs, the Washington-based IMF said. HSBC Holdings Plc and Credit Suisse Group ...

  Bloomberg Optimism that a devaluation of Nigeria’s naira would breathe life into the country’s banking stocks faded almost as quickly as it started. The central bank’s abandoning of a 16-month currency peg was greeted with a world-beating rally in the nation’s shares on expectations foreign investors would return to Africa’s largest economy. It didn’t last, with all but two ...

  Bloomberg Moody’s Investors Service said it revised its outlook for Singapore’s banking industry to negative from stable, amid growing risks to profitability from exposure to energy-related industries and high levels of corporate leverage. Conditions for the lenders are worsening because of slower economic and trade growth in Singapore as well as more broadly in Asia, Moody’s said. The ratings ...

  Bloomberg For the last eight months, an urgent question has been echoing through the halls of power in Rome, Brussels and Frankfurt: What’s to be done about Italy’s banks? Saddled with some 360 billion euros (US$400 billion) in soured loans and a sputtering economy, Italy’s lenders have been sliding toward the type of crisis that other European countries dealt ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG, Barclays Plc and 11 other foreign banks have spent several billion dollars in the past three years complying with a new Federal Reserve rule that will trap capital in the US and boost costs. Legal, technology and other compliance expenses totaled from US$100 million to as much as US$500 million at some of the biggest ...

  Bloomberg Years of excessive optimism and financial innovation led to record household debt and a banking crisis in Denmark in the naughts. Conditions are ripening again for a similarly heady combination, according to the country’s financial watchdog. The Financial Supervisory Authority laid out today the strategy that will guide its work until 2020. Denmark’s lenders are now healthier than ...

  Bloomberg Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell said global risks have shifted further to the downside after Britain’s vote to exit the European Union, introducing new uncertainties that may merit reassessing monetary policy. “The Brexit vote has the potential to create new headwinds for economies around the world, including our own,” Powell said in remarks prepared for delivery to the ...

  Bloomberg Moody’s Investors Service lowered the outlook on 12 UK lenders, including Barclays Plc and HSBC Holdings Plc, after predicting last week’s vote to exit the European Union will reduce their profitability. “We expect lower economic growth and heightened uncertainty over the UK’s future trade relationship with the EU to lead to reduced demand for credit, higher credit losses ...

  Bloomberg Just days after Raghuram Rajan announced plans to a return to academia, he’s battling to preserve the Reserve Bank of India’s independence. The government this month revived a proposal to dip into the central bank’s emergency funds to recapitalise commercial lenders hurt by rising bad loans. The idea was first floated in February by the Finance Ministry’s top ...