Royal Bank of Canada

Bank of Canada cuts rates, hails 'good news' on low inflation

“Today’s interest rate decision should contribute to a pickup in demand,” says central bank governor Tiff Macklem

RBC employs more than 96,000 people globally.

RBC bankers fear layoffs as pledge to keep HSBC staff nears end: sources

SOME Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) employees who joined when the bank acquired HSBC Canada worry they could lose their jobs when RBC’s six-month guarantee to keep them expires this month, according to si...

RBC’s asset management unit manages about US$470 billion in assets globally. Its wealth management business accounts for about 15 per cent of its overall earnings.

RBC’s US global asset management head sees growth in emerging markets, alternative assets

ROYAL Bank of Canada is betting on alternative investments and emerging markets debt and equity to boost its US global asset management business, said new CEO Donald Sanya, who aims to ramp up hiring....

Canada’s biggest bank by market capitalisation, RBC has taken a number of strategic actions, including rejigging its upper ranks and changing its reporting segments, while absorbing HSBC’s 780,000 clients and C$71 billion loan book.

Canada’s biggest bank RBC beats profit on smaller bad loan provisions

ROYAL Bank of Canada (RBC) on Wednesday (Aug 28) surpassed analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit as it set aside a smaller than expected sum to protect itself against losses on bad loans.

“We are increasingly confident that the ingredients to bring inflation back to target are in place,” Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem told reporters.

Bank of Canada cuts rates again, lowers 2024 growth forecast

More reductions in borrowing costs were likely if inflation continued to cool in line with forecasts

The Bank of Canada joins Sweden’s Riksbank and the Swiss National Bank in bringing down rates that have burdened households and businesses alike, and muted economic growth.

Bank of Canada cuts rates for first time in four years

The BOC says indicators of underlying inflation looked increasingly positive

Royal Bank of Canada's adjusted profit comes in at C$4.07 billion, or C$2.85 per share, for the three months ended Jan 31.

Canada’s RBC beats profit estimates boosted by higher interest income

CANADA’S No 1 lender Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) on Wednesday (Feb 28) beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit as higher interest rates helped the bank earn more on its interest-bearing assets.

HSBC says it is working with RBC to progress the deal, which it expects to close in the first quarter of 2024.

Royal Bank of Canada gets nod for C$13.5 billion purchase of HSBC unit

CANADA on Thursday (Dec 21) approved Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) C$13.5 billion (S$13.5 billion) acquisition of HSBC’s domestic unit, in a deal that would further tighten the country’s top lender’s g...

Royal Bank struck the deal to buy HSBC Canada, the country’s seventh-largest bank, for 13.5 billion Canadian dollars last November.

RBC’s C$13.5 billion deal for HSBC Canada gets approval from competition body

THE Royal Bank of Canada’s purchase of the Canadian unit of HSBC Holdings received the blessing of the country’s antitrust body, which said the deal does not violate competition law. 

The Competition and Markets Authority alleges each bank unlawfully shared information by participating in one or more one-to-one conversations in Bloomberg chatrooms between a small number of traders at varying times, between 2009 and 2013.

HSBC, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and RBC traders may have broken competition law, watchdog finds

Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Wednesday (May 24) it had provisionally found five major global banks allegedly broke UK competition law by exchanging sensitive information o...