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‘Sufficient chance’ of BOJ easing September

  Bloomberg There is “sufficient chance” the Bank of Japan will add to its unprecedented easing at next month’s policy meeting, central bank Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said in an interview published Saturday in the Sankei newspaper. The BOJ won’t hesitate to act based on discussions on the results of a comprehensive review at its September 20-21 board meeting, Kuroda said ...

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Gadfly says Deutsche Bank’s fed up whistle-blower deserves a hearing

  Bloomberg The whistle-blower’s dilemma is usually easy to understand, if hard to solve. Choose the ethically honest path and you face ostracism and the sack; head down the less honest route and you may have more job security and better promotion prospects. Regulators have used a stick and carrot to try to solve this. Whack banks with a fine ...

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RBS imposes negative rates on collateral for trading clients

  Bloomberg Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Britain’s largest taxpayer-owned lender, said some of its biggest trading clients must pay interest on collateral as a consequence of low central bank interest rates. Some of the bank’s institutional clients will need to pay interest on funds pledged as collateral when trading futures contracts, the bank said in an e-mailed statement. ...

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