Category: Financial Services

May 20, 2022

Zurich Insurance has agreed to sell its Russian business to members of the local team, it said on Friday, as the Swiss insurer became the latest company to announce its exit from the Russian market. A slew of companies — […]

May 18, 2022

The U.S., several global development banks and other groups unveiled a multi-billion dollar plan Wednesday meant to address a worldwide food security crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Treasury Department announced that several global development banks are “working […]

April 30, 2022

HSBC Holdings’ largest shareholder, Chinese insurance giant Ping An, has called for a break-up of the London-based bank, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. Ping An has set out its plan to split the company to HSBC’s […]

March 11, 2022

Sky News understands that one of Goldman’s private equity funds is among four suitors for a stake in Nucleus that will value the business at about £700m. City sources said on Friday that the other bidders were Centerbridge Partners, GTCR […]

March 7, 2022

The Senate of Virginia in the United States unanimously approved a bill amendment request that now allows traditional banks operating in the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide virtual currency custody services. Delegate Christopher T. Head introduced the bill, House Bill […]

March 4, 2022

Two China-based development banks have paused relations with Russia and Belarus as it continues to wage war against Ukraine, the Financial Times reported Thursday. According to the report, the decision of the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to pause investments […]

March 2, 2022

European Union representatives agreed to remove seven Russian banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), the Belgium-based global financial messaging service, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing anonymous sources. The banks are VTB Bank, Bank Otkritie, Novikombank, Sovcombank, Promsvyazbank, […]

February 23, 2022

Goldman Sachs Group Inc is exploring measures such as seizing vested pay to dissuade top bankers from leaving, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The bank is looking at confiscating vested stock – usually reserved […]

February 22, 2022

Shares in Russia’s two largest lenders, Sberbank and VTB, reversed early losses to trade higher on Tuesday after the state-controlled groups escaped British sanctions on Russian banks. British sanctions targeted Bank Rossiya, Black Sea Bank, Genbank, IS Bank and Promsvyazbank […]

January 27, 2022

If you were born after 1980, the monetary tightening that the Fed said this week will begin in March will be unlike any you’ve seen. This is for two reasons, both unsettling for markets. First, when the Fed began raising […]