Bloomberg Citigroup Inc has begun hiring financial advisers as the lender looks to expand its wealth-management offerings around the globe. The firm is structuring compensation for the newly hired advisers in a way that gives Citigroup shareholders more power than wealth managers themselves, Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser said during a virtual investor conference. Generally, the wealth-management industry has been ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwe has threatened to ban traders from the country’s foreign-exchange (FX) auction platform for exploiting the gap between black-market and official currency prices. Authorities are dealing with an underground phenomenon that has the potential to “totally destabilise the Zimbabwean economy,” Deputy Finance Minister Clemence Chiduwa said in an op-ed in the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper. Companies and individuals could face ...

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said the bank will put more capital into its sales and trading teams, after it took advantage of wild swings in the stock market during the pandemic. “On the sales and trading side, our team’s done a fantastic job,” Moynihan said at an Alliance Bernstein conference. “We’re putting more ...