Recent Posts

UBS ‘raid’ of rival Credit Suisse in US prompts $9m slap

Bloomberg A public spat between a pair of Swiss banking giants that erupted almost four years ago is now finally ending with a payment. It began in 2015, when Credit Suisse Group AG accused crosstown rival UBS Group AG of unfairly poaching staff from its US private banking business. UBS Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti personally shot back, insisting at ...

Read More »

Greece to offer banks $10b to tame bad debt

Bloomberg Greece plans to provide as much as 9 billion euros ($10 billion) in state guarantees to help its banks reduce a mountain of soured debt weighing on their balance sheets, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The initiative, similar to a successful programme used in Italy, depends on antitrust officials in Europe ruling that it doesn’t ...

Read More »

Volatility jump betrays SA rand traders’ nerves

Bloomberg As investors were expected to brace for the Federal Reserve’s policy decision on Wednesday, one corner of the foreign-exchange market looks particularly nervous. Overnight volatility for South Africa’s rand rose to as much as 25 percent, the most since August 2018, before paring the steep climb to trade at levels last seen in early May. The rand, which is ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend