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Bloomberg Barclays Plc plans to make key hires in investment banking and wealth management across Asia next year as British lender plots its return to some of the world’s fastest growing economies after a 2016 restructuring. The bank — which is benefiting from a boom in deals and trading along with its Wall Street rivals — is seeking to rebuild ...

Bloomberg China cut the amount of cash most banks must hold in reserve, acting to counter the economic slowdown in a move that puts the central bank on a different policy path than many of its peers. The People’s Bank of China will reduce the reserve requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage point for most banks on December 15, releasing 1.2 ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank bought 58 trillion rupiah ($4 billion) of government bonds, the first transaction in its latest round of debt monetisation. Bank Indonesia purchased 14.5 trillion rupiah each of four series of notes due in five to eight years via a private placement, the finance ministry’s debt management office said. Future bond-buying by the central bank will be ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s central bank is exploring the use of a digital currency rather than allowing cryptocurrencies as legal tender, according to the nation’s central bank Governor John Mangudya. “As a central bank we don’t believe in cryptocurrencies,” said Mangudya in an interview with publisher Trevor Ncube broadcast. “We believe in central bank digital currency which is basically trying to say ...

Bloomberg Australia’s central bank is likely to highlight the interval between building economic momentum and faster price gains as well as renewed risks from a new coronavirus variant in its final meeting of the year. All 27 economists surveyed see the Reserve Bank holding its cash rate at a record-low 0.1%. On the policy outlook, markets see rate liftoff in ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) said its supervision arm will focus its scrutiny in the coming three years on risks that lenders face from a potential spike in bad loans and their search for higher returns. Several early indicators point to a possible deterioration in credit quality, senior ECB officials said in a blog post. The rate at which ...

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc has chosen preferred bidders for its consumer assets in several Asian markets as the U.S. lender presses ahead with its plans to divest numerous units across the region. The US lender picked Bank of Ayudhya Pcl as the leading suitor to buy its retail assets in Thailand, the people said, asking not to be identified because the ...

Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA expects the record fundraising spree in India to continue next year, aided by robust foreign inflows into initial public offerings and as more companies seeking to expand plan to sell shares. “I expect 2022 to continue to be a record year for fund raising,” Ganeshan Murugaiyan, head of corporate coverage and advisory at BNP Paribas in ...

Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) is preparing to halt its almost 900 billion-pound ($1.2 trillion) quantitative easing program, leaving the future of what has become a controversial crisis-fighting tool shrouded in doubt. More than decade after buying the first government security as part of an initial 75-billion pound, three-month plan during the global financial crisis, the BOE will next ...

Bloomberg Vietnam’s central bank bought about $25 billion worth of US dollars over the past two years, according to a deputy governor. The move helped inject the Vietnamese dong into the banking system and boost the economy, Pham Thanh Ha told an economic forum in Hanoi. The US Treasury last week announced that Vietnam met all the criteria again of ...