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  Hong Kong / AFP Standard Chartered has announced on Tuesday first quarter profits slumped 64 percent year-on-year as revenue for the period also plunged, following a turbulent 2015 in which the troubled bank announced it would axe thousands of jobs. The Asia-focussed bank said profits for the first three months fell to $539 million from $1.49 billion in the same ...

  New York / AFP Goldman Sachs has officially launched an online bank targetting households and small businesses as it expands from its Wall Street base and aims for the masses. The online-only GS Bank permits consumers to open an account for as little as $1, a big shift for a financial powerhouse that has built itself around serving billionaires and ...

  Tokyo / Reuters Japanese government bonds (JGBs) stayed firm on Tuesday, with prices of superlong JGBs rallying after strong results of the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ’s) buying operations. The central bank offered to buy 450 billion yen ($4.06 billion) of JGBs in the 5- to 10-year zone, 220 billion yen of JGBs in the 10- to 25-year zone and ...

  Reuters SWIFT, the global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, warned its customers that it was aware of “a number of recent cyber incidents” where attackers had sent fraudulent messages over its system. The disclosure came as law enforcement authorities in Bangladesh and elsewhere investigated the February cyber theft of $81 million from ...

  Bloomberg A suite of euro-area data will provide Mario Draghi with his first simultaneous dispatches from both fronts in his struggle to boost inflation—showing how he still has a fight on his hands. Gross domestic product numbers, in a newly accelerated publication just one month after the first quarter ended, will coincide with the usual end-of-the-month inflation statistics to ...

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. has named Piers Davison head of its financial institutions group’s investment banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Davison joins Citigroup from JPMorgan Chase & Co. where he was most recently in charge of U.K. FIG, and was the head of banks for EMEA, Citigroup said on Monday in a memo, which was obtained by ...

  Bloomberg The combined compensation for Standard Bank Group Ltd.’s joint Chief Executive Officers Sim Tshabalala and Ben Kruger rose 43 percent after full-year profit climbed by a third. Kruger’s total pay was 30.79 million rand ($2.1 million), including incentive awards amounting to 22 million rand, giving the CEO an increase of 61 percent from a year earlier, according to ...

  Bloomberg Bank of America Corp appointed Luigi Rizzo as head of investment banking in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as the bank gives some senior employees newly expanded responsibilities in that division. Rizzo will report locally in his newly created role to Bob Elfring, head of EMEA corporate and investment banking, according to the memo, which was obtained ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG co-Chief Executive Officer Juergen Fitschen and four former bank officials were acquitted of charges that they lied to judges during a more than 14-year-old dispute with a German media mogul. The men were cleared after almost one year of trial at a Munich court Monday. The charges against defendants including former CEOs Josef Ackermann and ...

  Bloomberg China’s regulators are discussing a possible reduction in the amount of provisions that the country’s banks must set aside for their bad loans, the chairman of China Construction Bank Corp. said on Monday. A reduction in the bad loan coverage ratio to about 120 percent to 130 percent would be “reasonable” and “possible,” Wang Hongzhang told Bloomberg News ...