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CIBC to take over Capital One’s Canada card business

Bloomberg Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) is taking over Capital One Financial Corp’s Costco Wholesale Corp credit card business in Canada, helping diversify its portfolio away from travel rewards. CIBC will buy Capital One’s existing portfolio of Costco-branded Mastercards, which has more than $2.4 billion in outstanding balances, and become the exclusive issuer. The change is expected to begin ...

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Singapore’s OCBC mounts China hiring spree

Bloomberg Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) is boosting its wealth management and corporate banking staff for Greater China to capture regional business flow from the world’s second-largest economy. The lender plans to double the number of relationship managers for wealthy Chinese clients to 500 by 2023, Chief Executive Officer Helen Wong said in her first in-person interview. The planned hires will be ...

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Hedge funds slash exposure to US stocks that count on China

Bloomberg The split screen views of US-listed Chinese stocks falling as the S&P 500 marches higher suggest that China’s pains are localised. That may be true, but one group of investors is not taking its chances. Hedge funds that make both bullish and bearish wagers on stocks are slashing their exposure to American companies that lean heavily on China for ...

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