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Jerome Powell, a member of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, said US financial regulators were preparing a new rule on compensation at financial institutions, which could include more deferral, delayed vesting and “the possibility of more robust forfeiture”.
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While financial assets are off to the races following Thursday’s announcement of €60bn a month in eurozone quantitative easing, the banking system still needs growth to take off. The bond buying programme could hurt European banks by squashing the yield curve, and leave investment banks becalmed by low rates for longer.
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The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect initiative should be framed within a broader agenda to set up a Walmart-style “mutual market” for China and Hong Kong, said Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx)’s chief executive Charles Li, speaking at the Asian Financial Forum on January 20. -
Société Générale said on Monday that it would split the roles of chief executive and chairman. Frédéric Oudéa will drop the chairman role but stay on as CEO, while veteran central banker Lorenzo Bini Smaghi will join as chairman of the board.
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The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is planning to simplify the country’s IPO rules to make it easier for Chinese companies to list at home and overseas, according to its chairman.
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Goldman Sachs fourth quarter results, announced on Friday, were buoyed by an increase in activity in mergers and acquisitions, a sector in which the bank led the market with $1tr worth of announced and completed deals over 2014.
