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Taiwan rolls out its new trading system at the wrong time

Bloomberg Taiwan’s timing on rolling out a new stock trading system could have been better. Traders in Taipei starting on Monday will be able to trade stocks continuously, rather than through a five-second matched call auction that has been in place since 2014. It’s the only major capital market which runs such auctions throughout regular trading, said the Taiwan Stock ...

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JPMorgan, BofA give extra pay to employees who can’t go home

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. (BofA) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. plan to make special payments to branch, call-center and operations employees who can’t work from home during the coronavirus pandemic. JPMorgan, the biggest US bank, will make payments of $1,000 — $500 next month, and the rest in May — to branch workers as well as operations and call-center ...

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UBS to make several billion Swiss francs available for SMEs

Bloomberg UBS Group AG is making “several billion” Swiss francs available to small and mid-sized companies as it backs Switzerland’s measures to help businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The bank will provide liquidity to smaller Swiss corporate clients “who find themselves in need through no fault of their own,” the lender said in a statement. Amortisation payments or leasing ...

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