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Nomura, UBS take global banks’ Archegos hit to over $10 billion

Bloomberg Global banks’ losses related to the collapse of Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management topped $10 billion after Nomura Holdings Inc and UBS Group AG disclosed more than $3.7 billion of combined hits from the collapse of the US family office. The Japanese bank booked about 245.7 billion yen ($2.3 billion) of losses in the three months ended March 31, ...

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Kotak Mahindra shares fall as India caps CEO’s term

Bloomberg Shares of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd were the most hit among peers after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) capped founder’s tenure as chief executive officer of a bank to 15 years. That gives the world’s wealthiest banker Uday Kotak less than three years to find a successor, according to a note by Suresh Ganapathy, an analyst at Macquarie ...

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Citi’s Asia chief calls retail exit in 13 nations a strategic necessity

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc’s decision to exit retail banking operations in 13 markets outside the US including China was crucial for its ability to redeploy capital to areas where it can make bigger profits, according to an internal memo by the bank’s Asia-Pacific chief. “This was not about any specific markets or the attractiveness of individual consumer markets,” Peter Babej said ...

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