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Europe to wind down Latvian bank hit by US over sanctions

Bloomberg European authorities moved to liquidate Latvia’s ABLV Bank AS after clients pulled assets from the lender following US accusations that it laundered money. The European Central Bank, which had already placed a freeze on payments by the lender, said that ABLV was failing or likely to fail, handing it over to Europe’s Single Resolution Board. That authority said a …

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Citi to refund $335mn after APRs found too high

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc., one of the world’s largest credit-card issuers, said it will refund $335 million to US customers whose annual percentage rate should have been lower. The lender determined that a method it was using to calculate APRs didn’t properly reflect the full benefit customers should have received for good behaviour, such as paying on time, the New York-based …

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JPMorgan: Pay gap for women only 1 percent

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. said that its female employees earn 99 percent of what male employees make globally, making it the fifth large US bank to disclose an adjusted gender pay gap of around one percent. People of color employed by the bank earned more than 99 percent of what white workers made, according to an internal note sent …

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