Bloomberg China’s shadow banking could lead to losses of $375 billion, according to CLSA Ltd. estimates of likely levels of bad debt. The brokerage estimated the potential bad debt ratio for “bank-related shadow financing” at 16.4 percent, or 4.2 trillion yuan, in a report released to the media in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Assuming a 40 percent recovery rate ...

  Bloomberg HSBC Holdings’ South-east Asia advisory head Andrew Lim is leaving the UK bank just a few months after taking charge of dealmaking in the region, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The Singapore-based managing director had taken over the South-east Asia role after predecessor Alvin Lim left HSBC for CVC Capital Partners earlier this year, ...

  Bloomberg Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau warned the nation’s presidential candidates that they need to meet deficit-cutting commitments or risk losing credibility with other European Union governments. “France has promised to go below 3 percent in 2017 and all our European partners are waiting or us. It’s the cornerstone of our credibility in Europe,” Villeroy de ...

  Bloomberg Trade is likely to remain weak in the coming years, according to a report by the European Central Bank. While global trade grew on average roughly twice as fast as global output prior to the financial crisis, the ratio of imports to world GDP has largely stagnated over the last five years and will probably remain at current ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG, which is trying to bolster its capital, is working to securitize billions of dollars of corporate loans to offload risk, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The bank is structuring the transaction as a synthetic collateralized loan obligation, which means the firm would keep servicing loans while transferring risk to investors, said ...

  Bloomberg Many banks around the world are gearing up for new business with Iran after years of punishing sanctions were lifted in January. Not so the state-owned UCO Bank Ltd., which is forecasting lower profit after losing its privileged position as the only Indian bank involved in financing the country’s oil imports from the Middle Eastern nation. After sanctions ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business With a finger on the pulse of the fast-paced consumer electronics industry, GITEX Shopper tracks top 10 trends for tech savvy consumers looking to update devices and tap into the latest developments in the industry. Visitors to the Middle East’s largest consumer IT and electronic show, which will take place from October 1-8 at ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business As much as 94% of the remittance industry remains brick and mortar, giving IMTOs (International Money Transfer Organisations) a tremendous opportunity to tap new audiences and deliver additional value to existing consumers through digital channels, says Xpress Money COO, Sudhesh Giriyan. Giriyan’s comments came during a high-powered panel discussion on e-banking and digital transformation at ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business A recent business confidence survey conducted by the British Institute of Facilities Management on the Middle East’s FM market forecasted a very positive growth, noting that 36 percent of participants intend to completely outsource their FM services, while 60 percent expect more outsourcing of FM operations in the future. Isnaad, a leader in soft FM ...

  Emirates Business “Product of the Year,” the world’s largest consumer-voted award for product innovation, organized a seminar for FMCG brands on overcoming the emerging challenges in the unfavorable market. The third edition of “POY talks” brought together a distinguished group of international speakers, consisted of four sessions that unfolded the methods to overcome the current economic challenges by optimizing ...