Bloomberg The chief of India’s biggest bank called for an industry-wide review of risk controls in day-to-day operations, comparing a $2 billion fraud at one of his rivals to the 1995 Barings Plc rogue trading debacle that ended the 233-year-old British merchant bank’s independence. “The Punjab National Bank fiasco is something similar to the fall of Barings Bank, where one ...

Bloomberg Jerome Powell opened the door to the Federal Reserve raising US interest rates four times this year as he acknowledged stronger economic growth may prompt policy makers to rethink their plan for three hikes. “My personal outlook for the economy has strengthened since December,” the Fed chairman said in response to a question about what would cause the central ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co is the most profitable bank in US history. It expects to keep that title with help from the Fed and Donald Trump. Higher US interest rates engineered by the Federal Reserve and lower corporate taxes spearheaded by the Trump administration translate into about $7 billion more in pretax profit in coming years, JPMorgan said in ...