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National Bank sets 5-year goal for ‘top 3’ slot in Canadian market

  Bloomberg National Bank of Canada has set a goal of being a ‘Top 3’ Canadian investment bank within five years, setting up a showdown with bigger rivals as the Montreal-based lender seeks to win more business from the nation’s largest companies. “We think we can compete,” Yanick Blanchard, head of corporate and investment banking at National Bank Financial, said ...

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ABN Amro to slash 60% of senior management as bank shrinks

  Bloomberg ABN Amro NV plans cut 60 of its 100 senior management jobs and reduce the number of top executives by more than half in a revamp that reflects the bank’s shrinking size. A new management board will include the heads of retail, commercial, corporate and institutional, and private banking, the Amsterdam-based lender said in a statement on Monday. ...

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Global banks extend rally while dollar fluctuates

  Bloomberg Bank stocks continued a rally sparked by the Trump administration’s plan to roll back financial regulations, while the dollar fluctuated as investors weighed the prospects for a Federal Reserve rate increase in March. Equities from India to Japan climbed after the S&P 500 Index closed within a point of its all-time high. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. jumped ...

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