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Digital bank upstarts are years away from profits in Hong Kong

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s virtual banks are facing years of red ink on the bottom line after making limited inroads against their brick-and-mortar rivals in the financial hub. The two leading digital banks so far, Mox Bank Ltd, backed by Standard Chartered, and ZA Bank Ltd, bankrolled by China’s ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance, predict they will start breaking even by 2024 …

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Credit Suisse cuts risk as defections mount in wake of scandals

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG is grappling with how to keep top bankers from fleeing to competitors and drastically reducing risk as new Chairman Antonio Horta-Osorio seeks to recover from a series of scandals. The lender is cutting ties with SoftBank Group Corp, a backer to Lex Greensill’s collapsed supply-chain finance empire, and it’s temporarily barring clients from withdrawing all …

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Fed admonishes Deutsche Bank for ongoing compliance failures

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve has privately told Deutsche Bank AG that its compliance programs aren’t up to snuff, signalling that the scandal-plagued bank is failing to adhere to a number of past accords with US regulators. The Fed’s recent warning came in an annual regulatory assessment that said Deutsche Bank hadn’t improved its risk management practices despite being under confidential …

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