Bloomberg History suggests otherwise, but Morgan Stanley says Turkey’s peer-beating banks have room to rally further. Analysts including Samuel Goodacre increased share price targets for four of Turkey’s biggest lenders by an average 15 percent, saying a government credit guarantee facility will continue to underpin their earnings. Istanbul’s banks index is climbing even as the country’s borrowing costs rise to ...

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc has hired three executives from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as it seeks to bolster its equities business in the Asia-Pacific region, people familiar with the matter said. Michael Chandler, formerly Goldman Sachs’s co-head of Asia-Pacific research sales, has joined HSBC as head of equity sales for the region, the people said, asking not to be named ...

Bloomberg As the retirement of People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan nears, his legacy of financial reform may yet live on through the advancing careers of people he’s helped guide to prominence. The latest examples of that phenomenon are five officials, associated with Zhou and seen as like-minded reformers, who were promoted since 2015 to key posts at the ...