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JPMorgan targets Germany’s ultra-rich

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co is hoping to a grab a larger slice of Germany’s private-banking market as wealthy individuals increasingly turn to international companies for advice. Traditionally, rich Germans have often maintained loyal relationships with one local lender and one from Switzerland, according to HakanStraengh, who runs JPMorgan’s private-banking business in Germany from Frankfurt. However, the company is seeing ...

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Women pay 18% more in banking fees than men: Study

Bloomberg Each year, banks reap billions of dollars from overdraft and other fees. A new analysis of more than 500,000 US users on investing app Stash found women pay a disproportionate amount of those penalties. Male Stash users, the survey found, pay $182 per year in fees, while women pay $214, or 18 percent more. That includes late fees as ...

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JPMorgan, UBS among banks facing $1b FX-rigging suit

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co and UBS Group AG are among five banks being sued over allegations of foreign-exchange rigging in a class-action lawsuit seeking more than 1 billion pounds ($1.2 billion). Barclays Plc, Citigroup Inc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc are the other three targets of the UK suit that will say pension funds, asset managers, hedge ...

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