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October 29, 2019 Banking
Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co’s new Manhattan headquarters is meant to be an ode to the both company and the city — a monumental glass-and-steel tower that says the nation’s largest bank grew up here. But New York may be losing its luster. Despite more than two centuries of history in a city synonymous with the global financial industry, JPMorgan ...
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October 29, 2019 Banking
Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc embarked on its biggest overhaul in years after profit missed estimates, warning that it will pare back underperforming operations in the face of slowing economic growth and geopolitical uncertainty. The bank, which makes almost 90% of its profit in Asia and employs 240,000 people, walked away from a key profitability target and said write-offs are likely ...
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October 29, 2019 Banking
Bloomberg As regular bankers at Nordea Bank Abp brace for yet another round of cuts, those lucky enough to be working in wealth management face a very different future. The head of Nordea’s wealth unit, Snorre Storset, says a plan to cut jobs across the organisation won’t affect portfolio managers in his unit. Storset, who oversees $350 billion in assets ...
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October 29, 2019 Banking
Bloomberg Its economy is contracting and the nation’s largest lenders are a mess. And yet, banks from BNP Paribas SA to JPMorgan Chase & Co are scrambling to win business from Germany’s ultra-wealthy. Deutsche Bank AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Rothschild & Co are also among those planning to beef up in Europe’s largest economy. Several tout the country’s ...
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October 29, 2019 Banking
Bloomberg Brazil’s top banking executives were unanimous in cheering the approval of a long-delayed pension overhaul — and quick to line up what they think should be the government’s next priority. With the top item on their wish list now crossed off after years of debates, bankers from Itau Unibanco Holding to Banco BTG Pactual are now championing reforms to ...
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October 28, 2019 Local News
Dubai / WAM Emirates NBD delivered a strong set of results with net profit up 63 percent y-oy to AED12.5 billion in the first nine months of 2019. The results include an AED4.4 billion impact from the Network International transaction. Post DenizBank acquisition, Core Operating Profit grew 5 percent y-o-y, supported by a 17 percent increase in net interest income ...
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October 28, 2019 Local News
DUBAI / WAM Dubai Financial Market (DFM), on Monday launched the Dubai Financial Market Sharia Index (DFMSI). According to a DFM statement, the index is first index of its kind in the UAE. It highlights DFM’s efforts to attract more Islamic investments, and is seen as a step forward by providing market participants with a benchmark to measure performance of ...
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October 28, 2019 News
Abu Dhabi / WAM The total recorded re-exports of the United Arab Emirates amounted to AED 1.046 trillion over the past three years, which accounted for 25 percent of the UAE’s total trade volume during the same period, valued at AED4.141 trillion, according to official statistics revealed by the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority. The FCSA’s figures indicated an upward ...
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October 28, 2019 News
Bloomberg Oil was steady after the biggest weekly advance in more than a month on signs of progress in the prolonged US-China trade spat. Futures were little changed in New York after capping a 5.4% weekly gain. The US said it was close to finalising the first phase of a trade deal with China, while Beijing said parts of the ...
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October 28, 2019 News
Dubai / WAM Gulfood Food Manufacturing 2019, the sixth edition of the Mena region’s largest F&B manufacturing and processing forum, opens on Tuesday, to showcase the latest processing technology, as well as address concerns over food safety and food waste, and the need to drive innovation and transform the industry. As the UAE and other GCC economies seek to further ...
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