Bloomberg Neiman Marcus has officially come out of bankruptcy, a process that left the upscale department store with a lighter debt load and new owners to confront the same industry trends that led to its financial woes. The new Neiman Marcus Holding Company Inc emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying it had eliminated more than $4 billion of existing ...

Bloomberg Hawaiian Airlines will offer customers drive-through coronavirus testing in California to help island-bound travellers avoid a 14-day quarantine rule —its answer to rival United Airlines’ new on-the-spot airport screenings. The competing testing plans would satisfy Hawaii’s requirement for visitors to show a negative test result within 72 hours of arrival in order to avoid its self-isolation rule, which has ...

Bloomberg The bank at the center of Europe’s worst ever money laundering scandal has yet to fully address the corporate culture issues that led it astray in the first place. That’s according to the watchdog that oversees Danske Bank. Denmark’s biggest bank spent years locked in a top-down hierarchy that left its management cut off from people further down the ...

Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India rescheduled this week’s interest-rate meeting over the possible lack of a quorum in the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). “The dates of the MPC’s meeting will be announced shortly,” the RBI said in a statement on Monday, without giving reasons for the delay. The meeting was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, with the rate decision ...

Bloomberg Australia will make it easier for banks to approve mortgages and small-business loans to help the economy recover from its first recession in almost 30 years. Shares of the nation’s biggest lenders surged. As part of a sweeping overhaul of so-called responsible lending obligations, the government will allow banks to rely on income and spending information provided by borrowers ...

Bloomberg Commerzbank passed over internal front-runners in favour of an executive with a reputation for tough cuts at its biggest rival to push through one of the largest restructuring programs in its history. Manfred Knof, 55, head of German retail banking at Deutsche Bank AG, takes over from Martin Zielke as Commerzbank chief executive officer on January 1, according to ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s central bank is in talks with lenders about extending the nation’s debt moratorium programme beyond December 31 to provide extra relief for borrowers hit by the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. One of the key measures being discussed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and local banks is the possibility of lengthening the debt relief program, with ...

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve is about to decide whether to extend a ban on banks buying back their own stock. It may shape up to be pivotal for year-end funding risks. If the Fed keeps its ban on buybacks in the decision due by end of September, banks will be stuck holding capital until next year and will “flood” the ...

Bloomberg Indian bond traders’ worst fears may be realised this week if Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government announces a further increase to its mammoth borrowing plan. Traders expect the government to lift its borrowing estimate for the October-March period to six trillion rupees ($81.5 billion) from the existing 5 trillion rupees, according to 10 out of 16 traders in a ...

Bloomberg European stocks rallied the most in two weeks, led by bank shares, on optimism that the recent selloff is overdone. The pound strengthened on hopes that UK and European Union officials will be able to make progress as a key week of Brexit talks begins. Asian equities and US futures gained, while oil dropped below $40 a barrel in ...