Tag: Central bank

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A person holds a placard as climate activists including Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future stage a protest demanding more action whilst G20 climate and environment ministers hold a meeting in Naples, Italy, July 22, 2021. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo 2/2 By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Large U.S. banks would…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A general view of Two International Finance Centre (IFC), HSBC headquarters and Bank of China in Hong Kong, China July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) – Financial institutions think business conditions in Hong Kong and mainland China will deteriorate in the coming years, although they plan…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey in London, Britain February 25, 2019. Kirsty O’Connor/Pool via REUTERS By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned banks and other regulated financial firms on Monday that they should be “especially cautious” about holding volatile cryptoassets until regulators put new rules…

© Reuters. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss attends the G7 summit of foreign and development ministers at the Museum of Liverpool, in Liverpool, Britain, December 12, 2021. REUTERS/Phil Noble/Pool LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) – The Group of Seven major industrialized countries are concerned about the “coercive” economic policies of China, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said…

© Reuters. The logo of Nubank, a Brazilian FinTech startup, is pictured at the bank’s headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/File Photo SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Latin American fintech Nubank priced its class A shares on Wednesday at $9 each in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange which…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks in front the Central bank headquarters building in Brasilia, Brazil October 4, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado By Marcela Ayres and Bernardo Caram BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank on Wednesday raised interest rates by 150 basis points and signaled another such hike in February, waging one of the world’s…

4/4 © Reuters. A delivery man drives a car with a trailer containing Cid Ice Cream, a brand run by Cuban entrepreneurs Henry and Yendri Garcia, in Havana, Cuba December 6, 2021. REUTERS/Natalia Favre 2/4 By Marc Frank and Mario Fuentes HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban entrepreneurs Henry and Yendri Garcia have long peddled home-made ice…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People wearing face masks walk past the headquarters of Chinese central bank People’s Bank of China (PBOC), April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank will cut the rates on its relending facility by 25 basis points (bps) to support the rural sector and small firms, effective…

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker is reflected in a wall of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) head office in central Sydney, Australia, March 1, 2016. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo 2/2 By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s central bank left interest rates at a super-loose 0.1% on Tuesday and stuck with its bond buying…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Swiss National Bank (SNB) Vice-Chairman Fritz Zurbruegg attends a news conference in Bern, Switzerland June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss National Bank Vice Chairman Fritz Zurbruegg, who implemented the ripping up of the central bank’s minimum exchange rate policy and the introduction of negative interest rates…