Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) cut interest rates in its first emergency move since the financial crisis and announced measures to help keep credit flowing through the economy, saying the coronavirus outbreak will damage economic activity. Governor Mark Carney and fellow policy makers voted unanimously to cut their main interest rate by 50 basis points to 0.25%, returning it ...

Bloomberg DBS Group Holdings Ltd. signalled that its expected 2% revenue hit from the coronavirus may be revised as the pandemic causes loans to sour. “This is a moving target,” the bank’s head of institutional banking Tan Su Shan said when asked about the projection in a Bloomberg Television interview in Singapore. “We are living day by day, week by ...

Bloomberg DNB ASA, Norway’s biggest bank, has closed the trading floor of its Oslo headquarters after registering a coronavirus case among its employees. The bank was made aware of the infection of an employee working in DNB Markets. The person is in a “good condition under the circumstances,” spokesman Even Westerveld said. DNB has resorted to “extensive use” of home ...