Banking

  Bloomberg The world’s dollar-dominated monetary order has serious instabilities that can best be fixed by central banks explicitly coordinating policy, Claudio Borio, the chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), argued in a new paper. “The Achilles heel of the international monetary and financial system is that it amplifies the key weakness of domestic monetary and financial ...

Bloomberg Caixa Economica Federal, the state-controlled bank poised to become Brazil’s biggest lender, is boosting its credit portfolio while competitors not owned by the government pull back in response to the worst recession in a century. First-quarter lending at Caixa rose 9.2 percent to 684.2 billion reais ($194 billion) from a year earlier, the Brasilia-based bank said in an e-mailed ...

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam signalled he’s confident in delivering planned cost cuts this year after a tumultuous first quarter sparked a second quarterly loss. The shares jumped. Switzerland’s second-biggest bank on Tuesday reported a loss of 302 million Swiss francs ($311 million) in the three months through March, compared with a profit of ...

  Bloomberg The owner of Banco Santander SA’s Madrid headquarters asked a London judge to delay a dispute with Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and other lenders who are seeking about 700 million euros ($798 million) from interest-rate swaps linked to the 1.9 billion-euro acquisition of the Ciudad Financiera complex. Marme Inversiones’ lawyer Richard Hill asked the judge to ...

  Reuters Qatar’s Ahli Bank has started talks to raise a $250 million three-year loan, banking sources maintained. The loan will be partially used to refinance an existing $200 million facility the bank signed in September 2014 and is due to mature next year, two of the sources said on condition of anonymity as the negotiations are private. One of ...

  Reuters Kuwait’s Boubyan Bank is aiming to sell $250 million in capital-boosting sukuk after releasing initial pricing thoughts for the issue, a document from lead managers said. The deal, structured with a perpetual tenor and with an option for the bank to redeem the paper after the fifth year, is earmarked to price in the very low 7 percent ...

Bloomberg Nordea Bank AB will cut more jobs as Scandinavia’s largest lender looks for ways to lower its cost-to-income ratio by about one-fifth. “Over time the headcount will be lower,” Chief Executive Officer Casper von Koskull said in an interview at Nordea’s headquarters in Stockholm. “A best-in-class retail bank operates today with a cost-to-income ratio in the low 40s. Surely ...

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Asset Management is seeking to profit from the relative value of the world’s major currencies after trimming bets the dollar would climb versus the euro and yen. While the Federal Reserve will probably increase interest rates by another 25 basis points later in the year, any disappointment around US employment data could delay the next move ...

  Bloomberg Questions have been raised over new Bank of Japan Board member Makoto Sakurai’s credentials this week by a weekly magazine Shukan Post, saying that there was no record of him submitting a thesis or graduating with a PhD. The central bank’s website describes Sakurai, 69, as having “completed a PhD programme in Economics.” While some readers could take ...

  BLOOMBERG Saudi Arabia named HSBC Holdings Plc Middle East and North Africa Chief Executive Officer Mohammad Al Tuwaijri deputy minister of economy and planning as part of a government shakeup that also ushered in a new central banker and oil minister. Al Tuwaijri, regional CEO of the London-based bank since October 2013, takes on the role immediately and reports ...