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Bloomberg Two senior executives at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Asia merchant banking division have retired, a year after the firm combined its multiple private investing units into one team. Jonathan Vanica, who headed credit in Asia and real estate investing in India, Southeast and Korea, left this month after 19 years at bank. David Chou, a 15-year veteran who looked ...

Bloomberg IOOF Holdings Ltd. has agreed to buy National Australia Bank Ltd.’s (NAB) wealth management unit for A$1.44 billion ($1.1 billion) as its transformation gathers pace. The Melbourne-based investment group will seek to raise A$1.04 billion through a share sale to help finance the purchase of MLC, IOOF said in a statement on Monday. The rest will be funded through ...

Bloomberg BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. received approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission to set up a wholly-owned mutual fund management company in the country. BlackRock is the first foreign business to receive the approval in China. The new company is based in Shanghai and has registered capital of 300 million yuan ($43.7 million), according to a statement on the ...

Bloomberg China’s biggest banks are suffering their worst profit decline in more than a decade as a cascade of loans to businesses across China are going bad. Reporting their first-half earnings on Sunday, China Construction Bank Corp., (CCB) the world’s second-largest lender by assets, said profit slid 11% in the period, while Agricultural Bank of China Ltd., (AgBank), China’s third ...

Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) has plenty of room to add more monetary stimulus to fight UK’s economic slump, including negative interest rates if needed, Governor Andrew Bailey said. “We are not out of firepower by any means,” he said at the Federal Reserve’s annual policy symposium, being held virtually instead of the traditional venue at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “To ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG has discovered fraud at its international wealth management business, two years after it was criticized by a regulator in a similar case that rattled the bank and raised questions about controls. The Swiss lender dismissed a Zurich-based banker who forged documentation on an over-the-counter contract for an African wealth management client, according to people familiar ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG has submitted a bid for some of Wirecard AG’s German assets, but the administrator of the insolvent payments company considers it too low. The offer from Germany’s largest lender for Wirecard Bank and some related companies was one of several, the people said. All the non-binding bids were well below $119 million, which Wirecard administrator Michael ...

Bloomberg Rupee traders, lulled into a sense of complacency by the Reserve Bank of India’s massive dollar purchases, are in for a rude awakening as the monetary authority takes a break from soaking up the greenback. The rupee was the best-performing currency in Asia, up 0.6% to 73.43 to a dollar. It is up about 2% for the week, the ...

Bloomberg Nigeria’s central bank’s decision to resume the supply of dollars to money changers is raising the risk unscrupulous traders will profit from the country’s multiple exchange rates, according to Rand Merchant Bank. The regulator said that it will sell dollars from September 7 to foreign-exchange agents for the first time since March, when the country closed its air borders ...

Bloomberg China’s mega banks are ramping up their recruitment of fresh graduates as a record number enter the labour market, joining other state-owned firms in boosting employment even as lenders deal with plunging earnings and ballooning bad debt. The four biggest state banks, led by Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., (ICBC) this month kicked off their autumn campus ...