Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to buy out its local partner to get full control of a Chinese mutual fund joint venture, taking advantage of the latest move by Beijing to open up the nation’s asset management and securities businesses to foreign firms. The US bank is buying a 49% stake held by Shanghai International Trust Co. to take …

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. made more than $100 million trading a huge swath of the highest-rated collateralised loan obligations as market turmoil prompted asset managers in need of liquidity to unload securities at steep discounts. Citigroup bought roughly $2 billion of AAA rated CLO bonds in late March at around 90 cents on the dollar from PGIM, the investment management business …

Bloomberg Half a million of Bank of America Corp.’s (BofA) 66 million customers have deferred loan payments because of financial fallout from the coronavirus. “The idea is to defer the payment, defer the impact,” Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said in an interview on CNBC. “We’re working with our customers who need help, who are losing their jobs. We have …