Bloomberg Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.’s banking unit and its two biggest Japanese peers plan to sign a non-binding agreement with Saudi Arabian Oil Co. in Tokyo this week to expand lending to the state-run firm as it considers an initial public offering, reports said. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. President Takashi Oyamada and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. ...

  Bloomberg National Bank of Canada (NBC) became the sixth Canadian lender to beat analysts’ estimates, posting a 5.5 percent jump in profit on record earnings in personal and commercial banking and gains in wealth management. Net income for the fiscal third quarter ended July 31 rose to C$478mn ($365mn), or C$1.31 a share, from C$453mn, or C$1.28, a year earlier, ...

  Bloomberg Bank of Nova Scotia eliminated 827 jobs since the end of April, mostly in its Canadian business, as the lender reorganized to adapt to consumers embracing digital technology. The company had 88,783 workers in the fiscal third quarter, which ended July 31, down from 89,610 in the second quarter, when the bank took a C$278 million ($213 million) ...

  AFP The first female head at one of India’s biggest banks says a ruling forcing firms to appoint women directors to boards has eased chronically lopsided gender ratios — but warns too many firms are still failing to embrace diversity. State Bank of India (SBI) chairwoman Arundhati Bhattacharya said that the regulator’s moves to get rid of the “old boys’ ...

  Bloomberg Societe Generale SA, France’s second-largest bank, shut its energy and commodities research unit in Paris this week, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Thierry Bros, who covered European gas and LNG, and Paolo Coghe a European power, coal and emissions analyst, were among the people who are leaving, said the people who asked not to be ...

  Brussels / AFP Silicon Valley tech titan Apple will fight an EU demand for a record 13 billion euros in back taxes in Ireland, a move Washington warned could damage transatlantic economic ties. Brussels said Apple, the world’s most valuable company, avoided virtually all tax on its business in the bloc by illegal arrangements with Dublin which gave the ...

  Bloomberg Prada SpA shares rose as much as 15 percent after Chairman Carlo Mazzi forecast that the Italian luxury-goods maker will return to growth in sales and earnings next year, helped by cost-cutting and online expansion in Asia. This year “is a turning point and we are now firmly on the path to sustainable growth in revenues and earnings ...

  Bloomberg Boeing Co. skipped raising airplane prices for the first time in seven years as it contends with demand cooled by economic uncertainty, cheap oil and a glut of twin-aisle aircraft. The US planemaker typically adjusts its catalog prices for commercial aircraft once a year to reflect an internal formula that takes into account increases in the costs of ...

  Bloomberg AirAsia Bhd. expects to sell its aircraft-leasing unit as early as December as the largest customer for Airbus Group SE’s single-aisle jets aims to net as much as $1 billion from the transaction and pare debt. Proceeds from the sale may be used to reduce debt or pay a dividend, Group Chief Executive Officer Tony Fernandes said in ...

  Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co. and its pilots union agreed on the basics of a contract that will increase pilot pay and retirement benefits and enable the carrier to enter international marketing agreements and fly the latest model of the Boeing Co. 737. Final wording on the contract terms is expected to be negotiated by the end of this week, ...