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Bloomberg Sudan’s central bank said on Sunday it was implementing a unified exchange rate system, part of broader measures aimed at reviving its struggling economy. The central bank instructed banks and exchange bureaus to adopt the new system with immediate effect, according to a statement on its website. The move aims to curb volatility in the exchange rate at a ...

Bloomberg After a stellar year for trading and dealmaking, European bankers are joining their American counterparts in learning their bonuses won’t be quite as impressive. Credit Suisse Group AG, which contended with major legal hits and writedowns last year, reduced its bonus pool by about 7%. Deutsche Bank AG will boost bonuses for its traders by more than 10%, but ...

Bloomberg DBS Group Holdings Ltd., Southeast Asia’s largest lender, said it’s facing lawsuits in India related to its recent takeover of a struggling local bank. Holders of Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd.’s equity shares and Tier-II bonds that were written off before the effective date of amalgamation took legal actions against DBS’s local unit in various high courts in India, the ...

Bloomberg Bank of England (BE) policy maker Gertjan Vlieghe gave his strongest backing yet for the use of negative interest rates if the UK needs more stimulus, highlighting a growing schism between officials on the institution’s toolkit. Two days after Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said the BOE had scope for more quantitative easing (QE) to support the economy — describing ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG is seeking to gain full control over its securities venture in China amid plans to double its headcount and revenue in the world’s fastest growing major economy. The Swiss firm last year gained majority control over the venture and has been working to upgrade its infrastructure as well as moved more bankers into China, Asia ...

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. is studying options for slimming down the firm’s sprawling international consumer operations as part of incoming Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser’s efforts to simplify the bank. The company is weighing divesting certain units across retail banking in the Asia-Pacific region, including those in South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and Australia, according to people familiar with the matter. ...

Bloomberg A senior Bank of America Corp. (BofA) bond trader is the latest person to depart from the company’s fixed-income division. Shyam Rajan, head of US Treasury trading, is leaving after more than a decade with the firm. The company named Michael Maras head of global fixed-income, currencies and commodities research after prominent analyst David Woo decided to leave. Wall ...

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. (BofA) clients with $614 billion combined are in the throes of an unprecedented frenzy of risk-taking, as more Wall Street banks sound the alarm on greed across markets. After a week which recorded the strongest-ever inflow into stocks, a record net 25% of investors surveyed by the investment bank this month are taking higher-than-normal risks. ...

Bloomberg The billionaire Hinduja family paid a premium to boost its stake in IndusInd Bank Ltd., a sign of confidence in the Indian private-sector lender as concerns over its asset quality ease. IndusInd International Holdings Ltd., which represents the bank’s founding Hinduja clan, completed a rights issue to fund the conversion of warrants to shares in the Mumbai-based bank, it ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. is working with about 10 stressed or distressed borrowers in Europe hoping to lower cost of government bailout loans in debt market, according to senior bankers. Most of the companies are trying to offload loans made last year to help them survive the pandemic and lock in lower rates, Daniel Rudnicki Schlumberger, the bank’s co-head ...