By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed (Reuters) -A nearly $15 billion JP Morgan fund is expected to reset its options positions on Friday, potentially adding to equity volatility at the end of a strong quarter for U.S. stocks. Analysts have in the past pointed to the JPMorgan Hedged Equity Fund’s quarterly reset roiling markets, and see it…
By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -Wells Fargo & Co will pay fines of about $97.8 million for inadequate oversight of its compliance risks, enabling the apparent violation of U.S. sanctions against Iran, Syria and Sudan, federal authorities said on Thursday. The Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said the bank’s…
(Reuters) – Short sellers made $14.3 billion in paper profit from their bearish bets on global banking stocks in March, according to analytics firm S3 Partners, as the collapse of U.S. lender Silicon Valley Bank reverberated across the sector. Fresh short selling in the banking sector increased by 11.4%, or $12.8 billion, globally in March, taking…
By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) – BlackRock’s liability-driven investment business is urging some smaller UK pension fund clients to stop splitting assets across multiple managers, as it tries to cut the complexity and risks of a strategy that imploded last year. Asset managers worry new rules to make LDI investing more robust could render the…
By Lananh Nguyen and Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bank of America Corp’s digital personal finance tool, Life Plan, has attracted more than $55 billion in new money since its launch in late 2020, as customers use technology to set financial goals. Life Plan, which has more than 10 million users, enables customers to…
(Reuters) – Bank of America Corp is redeploying employees in wealth management and lending to other roles within the company, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday, as higher interest rates continue to weigh on the businesses. Less than 200 employees are being moved to product specialist positions within the company’s global operations…
LONDON (Reuters) – Financial markets have been thrown a fresh curve ball by the decision to write down 16 billion Swiss francs ($17.5 billion) of Credit Suisse bonds, known as Additional Tier 1 or AT1 debt, to zero as part of a forced rescue merger with UBS. Under the deal, holders of Credit Suisse AT1…
By Manya Saini (Reuters) – Shares of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc fell 3% in afternoon trading on Friday, a day after the payments firm’s Cash App business became the latest target of U.S. short seller Hindenburg Research. In a report, Hindenburg alleged that Block overstated its user numbers and understated its customer acquisition…
LONDON (Reuters) – Short sellers have made a profit of over $100 million on paper betting against Deutsche Bank stock over the last two weeks, financial data company Ortex said on Friday. Ortex said short interest in Deutsche Bank’s European and U.S.-listed shares has doubled over that period to $360 million. Deutsche’s German shares were…
By Samuel Indyk LONDON (Reuters) -The Swiss franc hasn’t lived up to its safe-haven reputation during the Credit Suisse collapse, as investors have sought shelter elsewhere, bringing more of a boost to the value of the gold in Switzerland’s bullion vaults than to its currency. Money managers ditched the Swiss franc at the fastest rate…
