Banking

  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 ...

  Bloomberg As markets went into turmoil and the pound plunged to a three-decade low after Britain voted to leave the European Union, the Bank of England issued an early morning statement and its governor stepped in with a pledge to provide an extra 250 billion pounds (US$345 billion) for the financial system. He also said the BOE has further ...

  Bloomberg Soros Fund Management took a short position in Deutsche Bank AG of about 7 million shares as turmoil from the UK’s decision to leave the European Union sent bank stocks lower. The position taken was equivalent to 0.51 percent of Deutsche Bank’s share capital, according to a German filing. The document doesn’t show at which price the fund ...

  Bloomberg It’s been blamed for fighting inflation at the expense of the economy and turning its targets into ‘fetishes.’ Now Russian lenders say the central bank’s latest swipe at price risks is putting pressure on their bottom line and credit. Reserve-ratio requirements will be increased by 75 basis points from Aug 1 for ruble and foreign-currency liabilities, policy makers ...

  Bloomberg European Central Bank President Mario Draghi avoided mentioning the UK’s vote to leave the European Union and called for greater alignment of policies globally to mitigate the spillover risks from ultra-loose monetary measures. “We can benefit from alignment of policies,” Draghi said at the ECB Forum in Sintra, Portugal. “What I mean by alignment is a shared diagnosis ...

  Bloomberg Here’s some advice that wealthy Asians are getting from their private bankers after Britain’s vote to quit the European Union has thrown markets in turmoil: Add to corporate credit, avoid risky assets and expect UK property prices to drop. Credit Suisse Group AG, Citigroup Inc and United Overseas Bank Ltd are telling clients that higher-quality corporate bonds are ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan offered to supply US$1.475 billion at a regular dollar funding operation after global financial markets plunged in the wake of the UK’s referendum to leave the European Union. The funding covers the period from June 30 to July 8 and was the biggest amount accepted since the end of December 2014, when US$1.528 billion ...