Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. hired Ryota Sakagami from SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. as its chief Japan equity strategist, filling a position left vacant since Jesper Koll left the U.S. bank last year. Sakagami joined JPMorgan in Tokyo on Wednesday, the brokerage said in an e-mailed statement to Bloomberg. He was ranked first among strategists in the country from ...

  Bloomberg David Findlay, chief executive officer of Nomura Holdings Inc.’s Americas business, received his full compensation for last year as investment bankers took deep cuts, causing frustration and anger across the struggling unit, people familiar with the matter said. Findlay, who has run the New York-based business since 2012, got a guaranteed $5 million package, while dealmakers and advisers ...

  AFP Customers at Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest, will not be charged negative interest rates on their savings, a senior executive said on Wednesday. “That won’t happen with us,” private banking chief Christian Sewing told Bild daily. Banks across Europe are feeling the pinch of a -0.4 percent rate on their deposits with the European Central Bank (ECB). The ECB ...