Bloomberg European banks probably failed to live up to US peers’ record fourth-quarter profits as they set aside more money for troubled loans and missed out on the rally in equities trading. Ten of Europe’s biggest lenders probably set aside $15 billion for doubtful credit in the fourth quarter, taking the year’s total to $61.5 billion, the highest since 2012, …

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Noel Quinn is set to appear before the UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee to answer questions over the lender’s moves to freeze accounts of activists in Hong Kong, according to an exiled lawmaker. Quinn is listed as a participant, along with Colin Bell, the bank’s chief compliance officer, at private and public …

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer (CEO) James Gorman leaped past JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon as the best-paid CEO of a major US bank. Morgan Stanley boosted Gorman’s pay 22% to $33 million for 2020, when the Wall Street bank posted its third consecutive year of record earnings. His pay includes $1.5 million in salary and a $7.88 …

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is conducting an internal probe after receiving complaints that some bank employees sold risky investments to clients who didn’t properly understand them, and then shared the profits. “We initiated an investigation in relation to our engagement with a limited number of clients,” a bank spokesman said in a statement following a Financial Times report, adding that …

Bloomberg Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., India’s third-largest lender by market value, posted December-quarter profit that topped analyst expectations as bad debt fall. Net income totaled 18.5 billion rupees ($254 million) for the three months ended December 31, compared with 16 billion rupees a year earlier, the Mumbai-based bank said in a filing on Monday. Analysts had expected a profit of …

Bloomberg India’s central bank proposes tighter regulations for large shadow lenders to prevent events such as the collapse of a major financier in 2018, the effects of which still linger in the nation’s financial system. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) suggests classifying so-called non-bank financial companies (NBFCs) into four categories based on parameters including the size of assets, according …

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s equity traders can’t get enough of Tencent Holdings Ltd., the $950 billion giant that’s on pace for its biggest ever monthly gain. They’re paying up for bullish derivatives tracking the Chinese internet firm, buying thousands of January call options that expire on Thursday. The price of one Tencent contract — which bets the stock will rise past …

Bloomberg Global stocks rise with US equity futures as investors focused on the prospect of additional fiscal stimulus and supportive Federal Reserve policy amid the worsening pandemic. The dollar dipped. Europe’s Stoxx 600 Index opened higher in a broad-based rally. Stocks outperformed in South Korea and Hong Kong. US futures pointed higher, with Nasdaq 100 contracts leading gains ahead of …

Bloomberg Debt sales in India’s rupee corporate bond market are likely to slow significantly this year after reaching a record in 2020, according to a Bloomberg News survey of debt arrangers. Issuance will fall by 17% to about 7.55 trillion rupees this year, according to the median estimate of six of the nation’s top debt arrangers. Companies have less need …

ABU DHABI / WAM Spain is interested in exploring the UAE’s expertise in the production of offshore green hydrogen, which is dubbed as ‘the oil of the future’ that can heavily help reduce carbon emissions, according to a top Spanish official. In an exclusive interview with Emirates News Agency (WAM), Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and Minister for …