Banking

  Bloomberg June is out. July might be too soon. The Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate increase is coming, but even September isn’t a sure bet. That’s the message investors and economists are taking from Chair Janet Yellen’s remarks. Her comments were the last the public will hear from a Fed official before the central bank’s policy-setting meeting next week. In ...

  BLOOMBERG Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer John Cryan said Germany’s largest lender is abandoning plans for a new digital bank in the US, led by Henry Ritchotte, just months after it was announced. While the team under Ritchotte developed an “excellent blueprint” for the service in the US, Deutsche Bank decided that the project would “divert resources from ...

  Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s central bank threatened to cancel the licenses of banks and foreign-currency dealers found to have violated new exchange-control regulations aimed at easing a dollar shortage. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe last week sent a directive changing the way banks and other authorized foreign-currency dealers are required to handle export earnings, adding measures aimed at encouraging companies to ...

  AFP India’s central bank chief Raghuram Rajan joked on Tuesday that it would be ‘cruel’ to end intense speculation surrounding his future as he held interest rates in the world’s fastest-growing large economy. The Indian media is abuzz with predictions about whether the popular central banker, often dubbed ‘Rockstar Rajan’, will be given a second three-year term as governor ...

  Bloomberg Six Taiwanese banks filed a lawsuit against a unit of Nomura Holdings Inc, saying it failed to extend its portion of a syndicated loan to a now-insolvent shoemaker, Ultrasonic AG. Nomura International (Hong Kong) Ltd, part of Japan’s biggest brokerage, was sued in the Taipei District Court, according to Winnie Chang, a Taipei-based spokeswoman for Cathay United Bank. ...

  AFP India is committed to protecting state banks suffering from mounting bad loans after they reported almost $2.7 billion in losses in the last two quarters, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday. The banks are struggling under a mountain of soured loans, prompting central bank governor Raghuram Rajan to set a 2017 deadline for them to clean up ...

  Bloomberg Policy makers should move beyond short-term budget and inflation targets that leave their economies exposed to longer-term debt bubbles like the ones hindering growth since the 2008 financial crisis, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said. Central banks with inflation targets like Canada’s are finding that the benefits gained from short-term stability can create dangers in the background ...

  BLOOMBERG Ghana is considering raising money through private bank loans, abandoning plans to sell as much as $1 billion of Eurobonds on concern its inability to raise targeted budget revenue may spark an investor selloff. With-lower-than-expected oil prices, the government can’t raise all the revenue needed to meet the budget gap, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement ...

  Bloomberg The level of inflation Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina just deemed ‘ unacceptable’ is looking better by the day. So much so that its failure to accelerate in May could force the central bank’s hand to ease policy for the first time in almost a year when it reviews interest rates this week. Price growth was unchanged ...

  Bloomberg The Philippine central bank is expanding its cyber-security unit, placing banks and money changers under tighter scrutiny, and will start to regulate digital currencies to ward off laundering and technology crimes. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas will tighten its oversight of foreign-exchange dealers and remittance companies in the next two to three months, Deputy Governor Nestor Espenilla told a ...