November, 2016

• 5 November

  AgBank fined $215mn for hiding transactions

  

    Bloomberg China’s third-largest lender tried to obscure the trail of dollar transactions by Russian, Chinese and Middle Eastern clients and attempted to silence a compliance officer who raised alarms about it, according to New York’s banking regulator. State-controlled Agricultural Bank of China was ordered to pay a $215 million penalty and install an independent monitor for 18 months to ...

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• 5 November

  ING climbs most in 3 months

  

    Bloomberg ING Group NV, the largest Dutch lender, climbed the most in three months in Amsterdam trading after third-quarter profit beat estimates. ING jumped as much as 4.2 percent in Amsterdam trading, the biggest gain since Aug. 3, and was priced at 12.02 euros as of 9:44 a.m. Net income rose 22 percent in the quarter as investment gains ...

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• 5 November

  SocGen throws up strong results surprise

    Paris/ AFP French bank Societe Generale served investors a pleasant surprise with third-quarter results, sending its shares soaring. Although falling by 2.4 percent to 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion), net profit still came in well above analysts’ forecasts of 888 million euros according to Factset, a data provider. Shares in Societe Generale, France’s third largest bank after BNP Paribas ...

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• 5 November

  Deutsche Bank to shrink UK office space post job cuts

  

    Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG plans to move some workers from a City of London office building to the Canary Wharf district and sublease the excess space, according to two people familiar with the plan. The lender will shift at least half of the back-office staff from the Appold Street property to the Docklands office by the end of this ...

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• 5 November

  Commerzbank suffers Q3 loss on overhaul costs

  

    Bloomberg Commerzbank AG said it expects to post a full-year profit after costs tied to Chief Executive Officer Martin Zielke’s overhaul pushed Germany’s second-largest lender into a third-quarter loss. The net loss of 288 million euros ($319 million) compares with a profit of 235 million euros a year earlier, the Frankfurt-based company said in a statement on Friday. Analysts ...

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• 5 November

  Egypt PM defends tough economic measures

  

    Bloomberg Egypt’s prime minister tried to reassure an anxious public as Egyptians expressed alarm and anger over prices that swiftly soared a day after the nation’s currency was floated, sending its value tumbling as fuel subsidies were cut. In the capital’s working class district of Imbaba, residents spoke of a sudden spike in transportation and food prices, mainly because ...

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• 5 November

  Kuwait launches foreign bond sale to finance deficit

    AFP Kuwait will issue billions of dollars worth of bonds in international markets to finance a budget deficit resulting from low oil prices, a report said Saturday. Finance Minister Anas al-Saleh said Kuwait will issue US dollar-denominated sovereign bonds of up to $9.6 billion during the 2016/2017 fiscal year which ends March 31, Al-Qabas newspaper reported. This comes on ...

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• 5 November

  Libya accuses Goldman Sachs of bribery in bid to appeal lawsuit

    Bloomberg The Libyan Investment Authority tried to resurrect its lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. by adding new accusations of bribery, less than a month after a crushing courtroom defeat in London. But Judge Vivien Rose said at a hearing that the appeal had no chance of success and ordered the sovereign wealth fund to pay Goldman at least ...

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• 5 November

  Oil driller vows to change ways after restructuring

    Bloomberg After emerging this week from one of the largest-ever energy-industry debt restructurings, Pacific Exploration & Production Corp. has a new ticker on the Toronto stock exchange and a new mantra: discipline. The oil and gas producer will target profit rather than growing production at all costs, and limit its geographic focus to Colombia and Peru after divesting assets ...

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• 5 November

  Oil caps biggest weekly decline since Jan on OPEC doubts

  

    Bloomberg Oil capped the biggest weekly loss in almost 10 months as hopes faded that OPEC will be able to implement a promised deal to cut production and ease global oversupplies. Futures dropped 1.3 percent in New York, bringing the six-session decline to 11 percent. Prices closed Thursday at the lowest level since OPEC reached a preliminary accord in ...

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