Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) reported an increase in net interest income as the lender benefits from rate hikes, and its traders beat analysts’ estimates, reaping the benefits of dramatic market swings spurred by the higher rates, soaring inflation, recession fears and global political turmoil. Net interest income, the revenue collected from loan payments minus what depositors are paid, ...

  Bloomberg Asia’s major banks are seeing a widening gap between ESG leaders and laggards, as regulators in the region ramp up scrutiny of sustainable finance, according to WWF-Singapore. While leading banks in Singapore and Malaysia made headway on implementing their environmental and social risk policies in 2022, over half of the 46 regional lenders surveyed made “little to no ...

  Bloomberg JPMorgan Securities LLC asked a court to order one of its former employees to stop poaching its customers for his new employer, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. Joseph A Michael, who quit in December after more than 18 years at JPMorgan, has already persuaded about 32 JPMorgan households, with assets totalling about $28 million, to start transferring their ...