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Leveraged debt poses no cash threat: Fed

Bloomberg Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell agrees that the torrid market in high-risk corporate loans looks a lot like the mortgage industry in the run-up to the subprime crisis, but he says US regulators are watching closely this time around and the financial system is better shielded. In a sweeping analysis of leveraged lending Powell delivered a response to critics ...

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Once future of banking, ATMs, fade in digital era

Bloomberg In the wake of the economic crisis, Paul Volcker called automated teller machines the last financial innovation that improved society. A decade later, their popularity is slipping. The number of ATMs around the world fell for the first time last year as banks closed branches and redirected resources towards digital payments, consulting firm RBR said in a study released. ...

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Top investors of Deutsche Bank focusing discontent on chairman

Bloomberg Some top Deutsche Bank AG investors are growing increasingly dissatisfied with supervisory board Chairman Paul Achleitner. Cerberus Capital Management and HNA Group have internally discussed pushing for Achleitner’s exit before his term expires in 2022, according to people with knowledge of the matter. While the shareholders have voiced their frustrations among themselves, it’s unclear how they’ll vote at the ...

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