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Credit Suisse set to score a smaller role on Ant’s mega IPO

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Bloomberg In the initial list of four sponsors for Ant Group’s mega initial public offering in Hong Kong, one bank’s name was conspicuously missing: Alibaba’s go-to bank Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse Group AG has been fighting for a major role in the offering and Ant is leaning towards naming them as a joint global coordinator for its Hong Kong listing, ...

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Japanese bank installs robots to scan ‘hanko’ documents

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Bloomberg Japan’s largest bank is installing giant robot scanners to digitize millions of documents, as it seeks to break from the long tradition of using paper records to verify its customers’ identities. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. will use the machines of Ripcord Inc. to scan 300 million pages of files that record clients’ personal seals known as hanko, the ...

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Wells Fargo hires Mike Santomassimo as CFO

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Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. veterans may have to get used to hearing “Well, at JPMorgan.” The San Francisco-based lender hired Mike Santomassimo as its next chief financial officer, marking the latest in a wave of JPMorgan Chase & Co. veterans that Chief Executive Officer Charlie Scharf has enlisted atop Wells Fargo. Scharf, a one-time Jamie Dimon protege who spent ...

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