(Reuters) -UBS Group is looking to cut more than half of Credit Suisse’s workforce from next month as a result of the bank’s takeover, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Bankers, traders, support staff in Credit Suisse’s investment bank in London, New York, and in some parts of Asia are expected to bear the brunt, with…
(Reuters) – Qantas Airways has appointed Rob Marcolina as its new chief financial officer, the company said on Wednesday, succeeding Vanessa Hudson who was in May named the carrier’s first woman CEO. Marcolina, who joined in 2012, is currently group executive of strategy, people and technology and will take over once Hudson starts as CEO…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid to throw out most of the U.S. government’s criminal case accusing the FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder of orchestrating a multibillion-dollar fraud. The decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan paves the way for an Oct. 2 trial of…
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) – The cl0p ransomware gang is claiming a new set of victims from its hack of the MOVEit file transfer protocol, taking credit on Tuesday for having stolen data from the University of California, Los Angeles, Siemens Energy, Abbvie Inc and Schneider Electric, among others. The total number of recent victims…
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) – A standard to assess companies’ claims about progress towards internal climate targets and their use of carbon offset credits was launched on Wednesday by a global initiative seeking to bring transparency and confidence to an unregulated market. Many companies have set net zero emission targets but acknowledge they will…
(Refiles to correct first sentence to fix day of week to Tuesday) By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar index retreated on Tuesday after a host of economic data releases indicated the U.S. economy remains resilient and may not be close to a recession, while the euro strengthened after comments from European Central…
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) – SL Green Realty Corp’s shares rose on Tuesday, extending gains from the previous session, after some research analysts heaped praise on the real estate investment trust (REIT) for selling a 50% stake in one of its prime New York City office buildings. SL Green announced on Monday that…
By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is likely to hand over control of the capital’s main airport – the busiest in the country – to its navy, according to a draft decree published on Tuesday, in what would be the latest step increasing the military’s role in the sector. President Andres Manuel Lopez…
By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman (Reuters) -Walgreens Boots Alliance on Tuesday warned that lower spending by inflation-weary consumers and a hit from a larger-than-expected drop in COVID-19 product sales would likely persist into next year, sending its shares down by 9%. The end of the COVID emergency in May led to a steep drop…
By Abhirup Roy and Akash Sriram (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s self-driving vehicle unit Zoox has grown its headcount by about 16% at a time when access to capital is tight and other large companies have exited the autonomous driving sector. Amazon’s shares were 1.2% higher at $128.84 in early afternoon trading. Based in California, Zoox,…
