Bloomberg A team of Bank of Montreal (BMO) commercial bankers have traded their suits and ties for Ford F-150 pickups to reach Canada’s remote regions and build up a part of their business that has yet to see a bad loan. Indigenous banking is one area Chief Executive Officer Darryl White targeted in June when he vowed increased support for ...

Bloomberg At the biggest bank in the richest Nordic economy, the head of wealth management is about to make life harder for his rivals by cutting fees yet again. DNB Asset Management, which oversees about 600 billion kroner ($67 billion) from Oslo, already lowered fees on several mutual funds back in February. That move gave the asset manager a bigger ...

Bloomberg When Christine Lagarde conducts a rethink of the European Central Bank’s policies and tools during her impending presidency, her new Austrian colleague will be keen to contribute. “I look forward to the strategic review,” Robert Holzmann, the governor of the Austrian central bank who began his role this month, said in an interview in Helsinki. “I’m a fan of ...