Recent Posts

Credit Suisse wins bid to stall release of rogue-banker report

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG won a bid to stall the release of a report into how it failed to prevent fraud and money laundering by one of its former star bankers, Patrice Lescaudron. A Geneva appeals court issued a suspension order late last month to temporarily keep the two-year-old report by Switzerland’s financial regulator under wraps, the cantonal prosecutor’s ...

Read More »

JPMorgan probes misuse of Covid-19 funds by staff

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. says it’s probing the role of some employees who may have enabled misuse of Covid-relief funds in what it calls potentially illegal activities. The New York-based bank said it has seen “instances of customers misusing Paycheck Protection Program Loans, unemployment benefits and other government programs” and that some “employees have fallen short, too,” according to ...

Read More »

Philippine central bank’s bond offer set for next week

Bloomberg The Philippine central bank will begin selling its own securities next week, a new instrument that it said will become its main tool to control liquidity in the financial system. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will offer 20 billion pesos ($411 million) of 28-day bills on September 18, Governor Benjamin Diokno said on Twitter on Wednesday. “The BSP securities, ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend