Banking

Bloomberg Egypt selected five banks to manage a Eurobond sale of about $4 billion, the finance minister said, as the nation taps cheaper funding sources to bridge its budget gap. The government selected HSBC Holdings Plc, Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and the National Bank of Abu Dhabi for the sale scheduled around January, Amr El-Garhy said ...

Bloomberg Punjab National Bank, India’s second-largest state-run lender, will be able to avoid massive losses after the government forced delinquent borrowers to repay loans or face liquidation proceedings under a new law. The interest and bids received so far for assets put up for sale by India’s new bankruptcy court indicates that the bank may not have to take “huge ...

Bloomberg German inflation slowed, underscoring the challenge the European Central Bank will face in 2018 as it gradually removes its stimulus program. Consumer prices rose an annual 1.6 percent, the Federal Statistics Office said. Inflation has remained tepid in Germany even as record-low unemployment bolsters private consumption and a recovery in global trade fuels exports and investment. The Bundesbank this ...

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. is withdrawing from an industry pact designed to allow financial advisers to change companies without being sued by for- mer employers, further unrav- eling the accord after Morgan Stanley and UBS Group AG said they would pull out. “Similar to others in the industry, Citi has decided to exit the protocol,” company spokesman Drew Benson said in ...

Bloomberg Nordea Bank AB’s Swedish mortgage loan book continued to shrink in November after the biggest Nordic lender saw the first decline in at least 15 years the previous month. The mortgage book fell to 443.5 billion kronor ($54 billion) in November from 444.7 billion kronor in October, according to Statistics Sweden data. The decline acceler- ated to more than ...

The richest people on earth became $1 trillion richer in 2017, more than four times last year’s gain, as stock markets shrugged off economic, social and political divisions to reach record highs. The 23 percent increase on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, compares with an almost 20 percent incre-ase for both the ...

Bloomberg Following the dollar’s worst year in more than a decade, foreign-exchange strategists see few signs of optimism for the US currency in 2018. Yet they remain divided as to which of its major peers to be bullish on. While most say monetary policy is set to drive FX movements in the months ahead, just how that translates into market ...

Bloomberg South Africa’s ruling party has ratified a proposal for the state rather than private shareholders to own the central bank. Delegates at the African National Congress’s elective conference in Johannesburg decided that the government should own 100 percent of the Reserve Bank, Enoch Godongwana, the head of the party’s economic transformation committee, told reporters in Johannesburg. The conference didn’t ...

Bloomberg Ukraine’s Privatbank, which was nationalised last year, said a UK court froze $2.5 billion of its ex-owners’ assets as the government seeks to recoup its bailout of the nation’s No. 1 lender. Justice Christopher Nugee in the UK High Court granted a worldwide freezing order against billionaires Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov, including six companies they’re believed to own ...

BENGHAZI / Reuters Libya’s eastern-based parliament approved a new central bank governor on Tuesday, deputies said, cementing financial divisions as the country grapples with political turmoil and economic crisis. Libya, an oil producer, has two governments as a result of a power struggle waged since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 — a UN-backed government in Tri-poli and an ...