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Euro banks spend billions to get US units fit for Fed

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG, Barclays Plc and 11 other foreign banks have spent several billion dollars in the past three years complying with a new Federal Reserve rule that will trap capital in the US and boost costs. Legal, technology and other compliance expenses totaled from US$100 million to as much as US$500 million at some of the biggest ...

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Bank watchdog revamps oversight to avoid crisis

  Bloomberg Years of excessive optimism and financial innovation led to record household debt and a banking crisis in Denmark in the naughts. Conditions are ripening again for a similarly heady combination, according to the country’s financial watchdog. The Financial Supervisory Authority laid out today the strategy that will guide its work until 2020. Denmark’s lenders are now healthier than ...

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Brexit shifts global risks further to downside

  Bloomberg Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell said global risks have shifted further to the downside after Britain’s vote to exit the European Union, introducing new uncertainties that may merit reassessing monetary policy. “The Brexit vote has the potential to create new headwinds for economies around the world, including our own,” Powell said in remarks prepared for delivery to the ...

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