We Are Hiring A new British bank is bringing 350 jobs to Charlotte. It’s already actively hiring
- A new U.K.-based bank is opening an office in uptown and bringing 350 jobs to Charlotte.
A new British bank is bringing 350 jobs to Charlotte. It’s already actively hiring.
The Bank of London has opened its second North American office at the One Independence Center on North Tryon Street, bank officials told The Charlotte Observer exclusively. The office will house the bank’s U.S. global platform and services division.
Jobs will include software development, engineering, and operations roles.
“We decided to build out in Charlotte pretty much immediately (after launching the company last year),” chief executive and founder Anthony Watson told the Observer. “I’ve worked all around the world. In my experience, the best banking talent is found in Charlotte.”
The bank did not disclose how much money it was investing in its Charlotte expansion. In a news release, the bank called it a “multimillion-dollar” move. The jobs will be created by 2026, according to the release.
Why move to Charlotte? Charlotte’s talent pool, as well as its reputation as one of the country’s largest financial centers, helped draw the Bank of London to the city, Watson said.
It also helped that he spent several years early in his career working here for Wells Fargo’s predecessor Wachovia. “Charlotte has a special place in my heart,” Watson added.
Anthony Watson, CEO, and founder of The Bank of London
The bank’s first U.S. office in New York City will serve as its North American headquarters, but The Bank of London’s largest employment base on this side of the pond will be in Charlotte.
The Charlotte office recently opened, and the bank is actively hiring to fill positions, Watson said. His team has already hired 14 Charlotte-based employees.
“We’re moving very quickly,” he said.
About the Bank of LondonThe Bank of London was founded in November 2021 and operates as a clearing bank — meaning it can clear payments and checks that it did not issue.
The bank is not a lending institution, Watson said, but focuses on global transaction banking and clearing for clients like governments, financial services firms, and other banks. It’s not connected to the Bank of England, which is the country’s central bank.
In addition to London, New York, and Charlotte, the bank has offices in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The Charlotte office is open in a temporary space at 101 N. Tryon, Watson said, while it fits a 40,000 square foot permanent space in the building. The bank has signed an 11-year lease in the building.
The local location is a “tech-focused office,” Watson said, that will also house business operations roles.
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We Are Hiring: A New British Bank Bank of London to open $33M headquarters in Charlotte, add 350 jobs
CHARLOTTE – The Bank of London will open its US Global Platform & Services headquarters in Charlotte, and has already leased 40,000 square feet of space at One Independence Center at the intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets, the center of Uptown Charlotte and the city’s central business district.
With the investment of some $33 million, the company also intends to hire 350 workers for newly created jobs by 2026, the institution said in a statement on Monday.
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Talent and technology are why Charlotte was selected statement notes that the Bank of London chose Charlotte because the city “brings to access to a strong and deep new talent pool.”
Charlotte recently ranked 10th in terms of the region’s tech talent growth, according to a LinkedIn study.
“Charlotte has some of the best bank technology and business talent that the US – and the world – has to offer,” said Anthony Watson, Group Chief Executive & Founder of The Bank of London. Watson previously worked for Wachovia Bank in Charlotte, before the bank was purchased by Wells Fargo.
The Bank of London has its US headquarters in New York City. This investment in Charlotte will be the headquarters for the US Global Platform & Services division.
That includes a technology hub, according to the statement. An executive with the Bank of London, Jim Ditmore, the co-president and group operating officer, called the bank’s technology “truly game-changing” and said that the investment in the firm’s technology offerings, based in Charlotte, would “power the borderless economy of the future.”
Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles called the city the “epicenter of where finance and technology converge,” in a statement, adding that the selection of Charlotte by the Bank of London “further builds on our strategic international partnerships.”
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What is the Bank of London? The Bank of London launched in November 2021 and also has an office in Belfast in addition to London, New York, and now Charlotte.
According to the statement, the Bank of London is a principal clearing bank in the United Kingdom and is authorized by the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority as well as regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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FX Daily: US jobs report should not damage the dollar
USD: Expect the dollar to stay bid into next week’s July CPIG3 FX volatility is steadying at lower levels as we move deep into the summer months. A half-decent US earnings season has seen a modest improvement in investor sentiment and investors start to nibble at carrying trades. In the EM space, it has generally been a good week for sovereign credits with Turkey’s
hard currency bonds enjoying some strong gains. Latin FX, where some of the highest carriers in the world can be found, is also enjoying a modest recovery. Implied yields through the 3m FX forwards of 13% in Brazil and 9.5% in Mexico are quite tempting if you think markets can settle into a quiet August.
On that subject, the pricing of the Fed tightening cycle looks quite settled for the end of this year in the 3.25-3.50% region. And this week’s pushback from the Fed may limit the downside for easing expectations next year. Feeding into this story should be today’s release of the July NFP data. Our team sees a slight downside risk to the consensus of a 250k increase.
But unless average hourly earnings fall sharply (expected at 0.3% MoM, 4.9% YoY) it seems far too early to conclude that the Fed’s battle against inflation is over. And another 9% YoY US CPI release next week will prevent that too.
Altogether this should keep the dollar bid near the highs. Over the last year, the dollar has very modestly risen in the aftermath of NFP releases. Those in FX markets looking for carrying opportunities will probably turn to the euro or yen for funding currencies – where the prospects for both seem soft. DXY should stay bid within a 106-107 range.
Jobs data will also be released in Canada today. Unlike the US, last month’s figures (for June) were a bit grim, with employment declining by 43k, but we expect a decent headline reading today (consensus is centered around +15k), with an unemployment rate that might stay below 5.0%. This may offer some support to CAD, although a decisive break below 1.2800 may not be on the cards as USD may also stay bid after the NFP release.
We doubt today’s numbers will derail the Bank of Canada tightening plan, although a more incremental approach after the big 100bp hike last month appears warranted: we expect 50bp in September.
EUR: Forecast profile revised lower yesterday we revised our multi-year EUR/USD profile lower. We have been bearish on EUR/USD this year, but not bearish enough. And our prior forecast of 1.08 for year-end was starting to portray us as
‘bullish’ – which looks untenable barring some major shift in European politics that can reverse the massive negative income shock of higher energy prices. The latest news from Gazprom is that three other turbines (in Russia) may also require maintenance. There seems little hope of a pick-up in Russian gas supply to Europe anytime soon.
Barring a big miss in the US NFP numbers today, and a much softer than expected average hourly earnings number, we suspect that EUR/USD will struggle to break the 1.0280/10300 area today.
We were wrong with our call on sterling yesterday, where EUR/GBP rose 0.5/0.8% as the Bank of England delivered the grim news that the UK economy would contract for seven consecutive quarters from 4Q22. But the BoE policy rate could well be moving to 2.25% in September and a 150bp spread over the ECB policy rate should prove some insulation for sterling – at least against the beleaguered euro.
RON: National Bank of Romania to close the rate gap with CEEToday we have a National Bank of Romania (NBR) policy meeting including rate decisions and the presentation of a new forecast. Valentin Tataru in Bucharest expects another 100bp rate hike to 5.75%, which still marks the lowest rate in the CEE region.
The inflation forecast should show a higher trajectory again, but the changes should not be significant. Our call is in line with the surveys, yet markets are recently demanding more and more monetary tightening. After the last meeting in July, the spread between the NBR key rate and 3M Robor dropped from 270bp to 170bp.
Today, however, the spread is a record 320bp. This reflects both the persistent lack of liquidity in the money market and growing expectations of NBR rate hikes. Aside from August, the central bank has two other policy meetings: in
October and November. Today’s rate hike should be the last big hike, in our view, and the next meeting should already bring smaller steps leading the terminal rate to 6.50% at the end of this year.
Despite all this, the FX market remains untouched. For the leu, the 4.95 EUR/RON line remains impenetrable, fully under central bank control. Although the leu has managed to get a bit lower in recent days,
the fundamentals do not suggest much reason for appreciation – quite the opposite. On the weaker side, however, the NBR is waiting to prevent any RON depreciation that would threaten inflationary pressures in the economy with the largest FX pass-through in CEE. And we think nothing will change in the NBR’s FX strategy until at least the end of this year.
CZK: The koruna is key to Czech National Bank monetary policy Czech National Bank (CNB) left interest rates unchanged yesterday, in line with our expectations. The new forecast brought an upward revision to GDP growth for this year and a downward revision for next year.
More interesting, however, is the central bank’s view on inflation. It should peak at 20.0% YoY in the coming months while remaining above 9% on average next year. Under these conditions, the CNB’s new forecast sees rates peaking at the current 7% level and even implies a rate cut as early as 4Q. In our view, however, the key issue is the koruna and the depreciation pressures.
As long as the CNB keeps the koruna under control, we believe further rate hikes are not in play. Thus, the main question is where the pain threshold of the new board for the rising cost of FX interventions is.
This is very difficult to gauge at the moment given that we have heard little from the new board so far, but our best guess is above the CNB’s 30% FX reserve level, which is far from the current 12% level (according to our calculations).
Thus, we expect the koruna to remain at current levels of 24.50-24.70 EUR/CZK and the key will be global developments, which could trigger a sell-off in EM currencies if risks materialize. This would imply too painful a cost for the CNB in terms of the loss of FX reserves.
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