Bloomberg The head of Denmark’s military intelligence service, Lars Findsen, has been jailed, charged with leaking classified material, according to local media. Last month, Danish police arrested four current and former intelligence workers on charges they had leaked highly classified information. Broadcaster TV2 and other media reported on Monday that Findsen, 57, was among those four after the district ...
Read More »Bank of America to increase bonus pool for its employees
Bloomberg Bank of America Corp, (BofA) tallying its haul from a second banner year for Wall Street securities firms, is shifting its philosophy on bonuses and dramatically sweetening rewards after a bout of restraint a year ago. Senior executives are planning to increase the bonus pool for investment bankers by more than 40%. And for sales and trading operations, ...
Read More »Morgan Stanley to pay $60 million to settle data-breach suit
Bloomberg Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $60 million to settle a class action suit by consumers claiming the firm failed to safeguard their personal information. The agreement, if approved by a federal judge in Manhattan, would resolve claims over two security breaches that compromised personal information of 15 million current and former clients, according to a group of them ...
Read More »Goldman sees new conundrum capping Treasury yields surge
Bloomberg Bond buyers face a “new conundrum†where Treasury yields will stay low even as the Federal Reserve hikes rates, despite the surge in the first week of the year, according to Goldman Sachs. The investment bank expects the bond market to be reluctant to lift the terminal rate during the coming tightening cycle. So while raising its year-end ...
Read More »Citigroup backs Ghana health startup’s Africa expansion plan
Bloomberg Citigroup joined other investors in helping mPharma, a Ghanaian health startup, to raise $35 million for further expansion in Africa. Jam Fund Management II, Social Capital and Lux Capital Management provided equity of $30 million, while Citigroup approved a loan of $5 million for the venture, mPharma CEO Gregory Rockson said. Founded in 2013, mPharma is building a drug ...
Read More »Wells Fargo’s chief risk officer quits after 4 years
Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co Chief Risk Officer Amanda Norton, who joined in 2018 to help turn around the scandal-ravaged lender, is leaving as the cleanup continues. Norton, 55, will retire from the bank at the end of June, and a replacement will be named in coming weeks, Wells Fargo told staff in a memo. “Strengthening our risk and ...
Read More »South Korea’s won slides to 17-month low
Bloomberg South Korea’s won dropped to the weakest level in more than 17 months as traders geared up for a quicker pace of US interest-rate hikes and North Korea test-launched another ballistic missile. “The won’s weakness is expected to ease soon,†as China’s yuan — which Korea’s currency closely follows — will attract bullish bets in the first quarter, ...
Read More »Credit Suisse chair to get warning on quarantine breaks
Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG Chairman Antonio Horta-Osorio is likely to receive a warning, rather than a dismissal, from the bank’s board of directors after a probe into his repeated violations of quarantine rules last year, Tages Anzeiger reported. The bank’s board of directors is expected to publicly issue a reproach of Horta-Osorio’s conduct in the coming weeks, the ...
Read More »Asia stocks advance amid bond turmoil; dollar rises
Bloomberg Stocks in Asia nudged higher on Monday as investors brace for the bond-market volatility and stimulus withdrawal. The dollar rose. Shares in Hong Kong advanced as technology stocks rebounded. They fall in South Korea, while China edged higher. US futures inched upward after the S&P 500 posted the worst start to a year since 2016, as expectations of ...
Read More »India’s benchmark yield jumps to two-year high
Bloomberg India’s benchmark yield jumped to the highest in two years as demand for bonds at recent auctions dwindled amid concern over the central bank’s consistent sales of the nation’s debt in the secondary market. The 10-year bond yield rises five basis points to 6.59%, highest since January 2020. That’s after underwriters stepped in to buy nearly 44 billion ...
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