Banking

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG is struggling to halt departures from its private bank in Hong Kong, with more recent resignations amid the turmoil at the Swiss lender. Luke Chiu, a managing director and China market leader has resigned from the bank. Nelson Hui, a director and team leader for China has also resigned, along with two relationship managers. ...

  Bloomberg Standard Chartered Plc has told shareholders it should have given them a better explanation of how it cut the pay of staff after it was hit with a fine from UK regulators over an error that led to the bank overestimating its access to US dollar funding. Responding to a backlash at a May shareholder meeting where a ...

  Bloomberg Barclays Plc said some of its bankers may face disciplinary action and pay cuts after the firm agreed to a $361 million penalty to settle US allegations that it failed to register billions of dollars-worth of securities offerings. The bank didn’t put in place a mechanism to track the sales as required by the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG’s new chief has asked investors for less than 100 days to deliver a new turnaround strategy. Turbulent markets are making that feel like a long time. The cost of insuring the firm’s bonds against default climbed about 15% last week to levels not seen since 2009 as the shares touched a new record low. ...

Bloomberg The Philippine peso may extend its record-setting slump against the greenback as billions of dollars of trade deficits weigh on the currency, increasing pressure on the central bank to intervene to slow its descent. The peso may slide to an all-time low of about 62 against the dollar as early as this year, about 4.8% weaker than Monday’s close, ...

  Bloomberg India’s central bank delivered a hat-trick of half-point interest-rate hikes, sustaining its battle to rein in inflation while flagging “calibrated action” to shield the economy amid fears of a global recession. The benchmark repurchase rate was raised by 50 basis points to 5.90%, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said after the six-member monetary policy committee’s ...

  Bloomberg The Swiss National Bank (SNB) isn’t in a rush to reduce its balance sheet, which is likely to stay high for a long time, the central bank’s president told Neue Zürcher Zeitung. “We will not reduce our balance sheet simply because of its sheer size,” Thomas Jordan told the newspaper, stressing that the SNB will use its portfolio ...

Bloomberg India’s central bank is expected to increase its policy rate by half a point for the third time in a row as the currency’s plunge to a record low this month complicates the battle against inflation. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) six-member monetary policy committee will raise its repurchase rate by 50 basis points to 5.9%, according to ...

Bloomberg Bank Indonesia seeks to reduce the country’s reliance on the US dollar, with plans to allow domestic transactions of non-deliverable forwards in other currencies and to strike more agreements on local currency settlement. The central bank could offer non-US dollar-denominated domestic NDFs next year, Edi Susianto, executive director for monetary management, said in interview on Thursday. The monetary authority ...

Bloomberg Taiwan’s central bank won’t impose foreign-exchange controls, Governor Yang Chin-long said on Thursday as he attempted to clarify earlier remarks about how aggressive the monetary authority might become to ensure stability in financial markets. The central bank is capable of coping with capital outflows, Yang told lawmakers, acknowledging that foreign outflows are higher in 2022 than in previous years, ...