Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc will pay $192 million to resolve a decade-long US tax investigation and admitted that it helped American clients cheat the Internal Revenue Service, (IRS) according to a US judge. Prosecutors filed a charge of conspiracy to defraud the US against a unit of the bank, HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, but agreed to drop it in …

Bloomberg Barry Zamore, the head of loan trading at UBS Group AG, was terminated after engaging in an allegedly improper transaction. Zamore, 50, was dismissed at the end of October for violating firm policies, UBS said in a regulatory filing. The Swiss bank terminated him for buying back a loan at the same price from a counterparty, cancelling that transaction …

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc won’t be repeating 2018’s rough close to the year. Fourth-quarter trading revenue will rise “meaningfully” from a year earlier, driven by the fixed-income business, JPMorgan Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Piepszak said at an investor conference. Citigroup CFO Mark Mason said at the conference that the bank’s trading revenue in the period is …