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Shadow banks ride out crisis while virus ravages India

Bloomberg The health of India’s shadow banks remained resilient in August, suggesting that record stimulus steps by the nation’s authorities are helping the crisis-hit sector ride out the coronavirus pandemic. Premiums on non-bank lenders’ bonds narrowed to a two-year low, according to an index of AAA rated five-year notes. Three other indicators compiled by Bloomberg, covering areas including liquidity and ...

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Barclays sets up electronic forex trading system in Singapore

Bloomberg Barclays Plc will start a foreign exchange trading and pricing engine in Singapore in mid-2021, marking the British lender’s fourth electronic currency trading hub globally. Barclays will build out a local version of the trading system, known as BARX, adding to hubs in New York, London and Tokyo, the London-based bank said in a statement on Wednesday. “FX is ...

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JPMorgan says $200bn may flow out of stocks this quarter

Bloomberg Pension and sovereign wealth funds are set to offload about $200 billion of equities as they rebalance their portfolios, posing a risk for global shares, according to JPMorgan Chase and Company. This would be the most negative quarterly adjustment since the pandemic hit, strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou said on Tuesday. The overall figure stems from calculations spanning US ...

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