MOSCOW – The Russian central bank increased the daily limit for its foreign exchange swap operations in euros to 3.5 billion euros from 2 billion …
MOSCOW – Russia’s central bank on Friday said it had provided banks with 1.9 trillion roubles ($22.87 billion) out of 3 trillion roubles on offer …
TOKYO – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) said on Friday it had decided to reduce the maximum amounts of commercial paper (CP) and corporate bonds …
MOSCOW – The Russian central bank on Friday said it was raising the limit at a “fine-tuning” repo auction later on Friday to 3 trillion …
NASHVILLE – A Clarksville, Tennessee, auto dealer was charged today with bank fraud, resulting from a fraudulent scheme in which he obtained loans from several …
Miami, Florida – A Miami federal jury found David Franklin Lee, 60, of Miami, guilty of attempted bank robbery, following a three-day trial, before U.S. …
BISMARCK – Interim United States Attorney Nicholas W. Chase announced that U.S. District Court Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced Ryan Gregory Lee, Age 43, from …
Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Romanian national Mateus Vaduva, age 29, of Baltimore, Maryland, and Florida yesterday to five years …
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Arthur Hayes and BENJAMIN DELO, founders and executives of purportedly …
KYIV – Ukraine’s central bank has banned payments to entities in Russia and Belarus as well as operations involving both nations’ currencies, the regulator said …
BEIJING – China’s central bank made the biggest weekly cash injection in more than two years this week to maintain stable liquidity conditions towards the …
WASHINGTON – World Bank President David Malpass said on Thursday the lender stands ready to provide immediate support to Ukraine amid “shocking violence and loss …
MOSCOW – Russia’s central bank is ready to support banks hit by Western sanctions, it said on Friday, promising to provide them with rouble and …
By David Henry and Matt Scuffham NEW YORK – The sale of Citigroup’s Russian consumer bank could be complicated by U.S. sanctions on Russian state …
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA – Brazil’s central bank said it is prepared to act in the exchange market in case of disproportionate contamination on prices, …
MOSCOW – The Russian central bank on Thursday said it was raising the ceiling for banks’ outstanding debt under repo auctions to $50 billion from …
MEXICO CITY – Mexican core price inflation in the first half of February climbed to levels not seen in over 20 years, according to official …
LONDON – Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said the British central bank will seek to bring fast-rising inflation down in a “measured way” …
BUDAPEST – Hungary’s central bank raised its one-week deposit rate by 30 basis points to 4.6% at a weekly tender on Thursday, as expected, two …
MOSCOW – The Russian central bank increased daily dollars offered via foreign exchange swap operations with banks to $5 billion from $3 billion, it said …
MISSOULA — The owner of a former whiskey distillery in Bozeman today admitted to defrauding a bank that had loaned him money for the business, …
ALMATY – Kazakhstan’s central bank hiked its policy rate to 13.5% from 10.25% on Thursday as the central Asian nation’s tenge currency sank alongside the …
PRAGUE – The crisis around Ukraine will have an inflationary effect on the Czech economy via higher energy prices, the central bank vice-governor Tomas Nidetzky …
By Shrutee Sarkar BENGALURU – The Bank of Canada will raise interest rates by 25 basis points on March 2, earlier than previously thought and …
MEXICO CITY – Executives for London-based HSBC, which controls one of the largest banking operations in Mexico, have told investors the chain is not interested …
LONDON – The Bank of England is conducting an internal review into its policy on officials’ personal financial dealings, in the wake of an ethics …
By Yousef Saba DUBAI -First Abu Dhabi Bank, the United Arab Emirates’ largest lender, is set to sell $500 million in senior unsecured Islamic bonds …
By Andy Bruce LONDON – The International Monetary Fund told the Bank of England on Wednesday to be clear about its plans to withdraw stimulus …
NEWARK, N.J. – A Queens, New York, man today admitted his role in coordinating a $653 million money laundering conspiracy, operating an unlicensed money transmitting …
By Natalia Zinets KYIV – Ukraine wants to launch talks with the International Monetary Fund on a new programme in April to reassure markets that …
MOSCOW – The Russian central bank still expects inflation to return to its 4% target in mid-2023, news agencies cited Deputy Governor Alexei Zabotkin as …
BANGKOK – Digital and disruptive technologies and development of a circular economy can earn Thailand up to $3.4 billion each year in additional investments, savings …
By Devayani Sathyan and Tushar Goenka BENGALURU – The Bank of Korea will leave rates on hold on Thursday after back-to-back hikes at the previous …
SYDNEY – Australia’s central bank is shaking up the way it provides liquidity to the banking system as it ceases quantitative easing and prepares for …
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA – Brazil’s central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto said on Monday consumer prices continue to trend higher as core inflation speeds …
By Huw Jones LONDON – Requiring regulators to keep the financial sector globally competitive following Brexit must not bring back the damaging booms and busts …
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s parliament on Monday extended a law that lifts banking secrecy regulations to facilitate a forensic audit of the country’s central bank, a …
MOSCOW – Russia’s finance ministry on Monday said it would take proposals on cryptocurrencies from the country’s central bank into account so long as they …
NAIROBI – The Kenyan central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee will hold its next rate-setting meeting on March 29, the bank said on Monday. At its …
Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Johnson B. Ogunlana, age 25, of Edgewood, Maryland, to six years in federal prison, followed …
– Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard on Friday laid out a case for the role a U.S. central bank digital currency could play in …
NEW YORK – Supply chain issues may gradually recede over time, easing some inflationary pressures and helping the Federal Reserve achieve its goal of controlling …
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEE BLANCHETTE, 59, of Farmington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge …
SHANGHAI – China’s banks face rising default risks as a result of higher climate-related costs in carbon-intensive sectors like thermal power, steel and cement, Liu …
TOKYO – Japan’s consumer inflation may exceed 1% but will remain distant from the central bank’s 2% target, a senior Bank of Japan official said …
NEW YORK – Bank of America Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said the bank’s capital markets business “is down” so far in 2022, even as …
WILMINGTON, N.C. – A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania woman was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for robbing a bank in Ayden, North Carolina. She was …
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Georgia man convicted for his role in a scheme in which Providence area homeless and transient individuals were recruited to cash …
FRANKFURT – Commerzbank on Wednesday announced that board member Sabine Schmittroth would leave the German lender at the end of the year. Commerzbank, which is …
ISTANBUL – The capital of Turkey’s Ziraat Bank will be raised to 34.9 billion lira ($2.57 billion) according to footnotes of the bank’s annual financial …