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Bloomberg This week looms as a key one for Asian financial markets with no less than five central banks set to hand down decisions that may set the tone for the rest of the year. Markets are predicting policy makers in India, the Philippines and New Zealand will all cut interest rates to shore up faltering growth, while those in ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG, which has been working to improve its technology, faced a systems outage in which email was unavailable for thousands of employees. “Earlier, we experienced an email outage that impacted DB employees in the Americas region. We have since resolved the issue and restored access for employees,” Deutsche Bank spokesman Troy Gravitt said in a statement. Trading ...

Bloomberg The Swiss franc advanced to its strongest level against the euro since 2017 after US President Donald Trump escalated trade tensions with China and fueled demand for haven currencies. The franc dipped below the crucial 1.10 threshold against shared currency, which analysts at Commerzbank think could prompt the Swiss National Bank to intervene and curb the currency’s appreciation. Investors ...

Bloomberg Credit Agricole SA and Natixis SA are among French lenders nursing losses on loans made to Rallye SA and other parent companies of retailing giant Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA, which are creaking under more than 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) of debt. Natixis made a provision for credit losses of 110 million euros in the second quarter because of its ...

Bloomberg Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc(RBS) slid as the state-controlled lender indicated it’s unlikely to reach key profitability targets next year given the political and economic tension around Brexit. Outgoing Chief Executive Officer Ross McEwan blamed an “uncertain and competitive environment” as the bank reported second-quarter net interest income that missed analysts’ estimates. The bank said it’s very unlikely ...

Bloomberg Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney dodged the question of whether he’d be interested in becoming the next head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “I wouldn’t mind doing something after I leave” the BOE at the end of January, “but I don’t know what I’m going to do next,” Carney said in an interview with BBC Radio ...

Bloomberg Ireland’s central bank commission discussed how to contain any potential fallout from the controversy which engulfed its incoming governor, a person familiar with the matter said. In June, Gabriel Makhlouf, New Zealand’s top Treasury official at the time, escaped dismissal with a rebuke from authorities for failing to take responsibility for a security breach around sensitive budget information. He ...

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve’s decision to stop shrinking its balance sheet means the era of quantitative tightening by major central banks is over less than a year after it started. Net bond purchases by the Fed, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan are now turning positive, according to an analysis of their balance sheets by Bloomberg Economics. That’s just ...

Bloomberg US-China trade tensions didn’t stop Standard Chartered Plc from delivering results that beat expectations. Adjusted pretax profit was $2.61 billion in the first half, the bank reported, higher than the company-compiled $2.50 billion estimate. Standard Chartered said it remains confident of a full-year return on tangible equity greater than 10 percent in 2021. “Trade protectionism is bad for the ...

Bloomberg Mark Carney won’t be able to play the saviour if the UK leaves the European Union with no deal at the end of October. The Bank of England (BOE) governor said that the institution can’t necessarily deliver a growth-boosting package in the event of Brexit without a transition. In a week when the pound capped its worst monthly performance ...