Banking

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG expects mergers and acquisitions to pick up in the Middle East and Africa next year after a ‘subdued’ 2016, according to the head of the company in the region, Jamal Al Kishi. Deals and initial public offerings will add to accelerating debt sales as governments seek to fill budget gaps caused by the oil slump, ...

  New Delhi / AFP Long queues formed outside banks in India on Thursday as they reopened for the first time since the government’s shock decision to withdraw the two largest denomination notes from circulation. Some banks in the capital New Delhi had received the new 2,000 rupee ($30) bill and a number of ATMs were working again, two days ...

  Bloomberg The rupee rose to a two-month high as foreign investors piled into Indian assets and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the government’s crackdown on unaccounted wealth will boost the nation’s bonds and currency. In India’s most extensive anti-graft operation in almost four decades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi late Tuesday decided to ban 500 rupee ($7.50) and 1,000 rupee ...

  Bloomberg New Zealand’s central bank cut interest rates to a fresh record low and said it has probably done enough to return inflation to target as economic growth quickens. “At this stage we think that we won’t need another cut,” Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler told a news conference in Wellington on Thursday after lowering the official cash rate ...

  Bloomberg European lenders got a second-day boost after Donald Trump’s presidential win on speculation his term will lead to increased inflation and an easing of financial rules. The leaders of the rally that pushed Europe’s shares up for a fourth day were UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse Group AG, which get more than 35 percent of their revenues ...

  Bloomberg Banks in the UK paid 34.2 billion pounds ($42 billion) in tax in the latest fiscal year, 9 percent more than a year earlier, reflecting an increase in the levy on balance sheets and changes to corporation tax, a report from the British Bankers’ Association showed. Receipts were evenly split between domestic and international lenders, with the former ...

  Frankfurt / AFP Donald Trump’s shock election win in the United States “is not a good day for the world economy” and could force the European Central Bank “to intervene”, governing council member Ewald Nowotny said on Wednesday. Nowotny told reporters in Vienna the ECB was “prepared to intervene” as he warned of “massive insecurities” after the vote outcome ...

  Bloomberg Tesco Bank, the lending arm of the U.K.’s biggest grocer, said it’s spending 2.5 million pounds ($3.1 million) to reimburse customers who lost money during a wave of fraudulent account transactions over the weekend. About 9,000 of the firm’s 136,000 checking-account clients fell victim and were fully reimbursed by Tuesday, the company said in a statement. The bank ...

  Bloomberg ABN Amro Group NV promoted Kees Van Dijkhuizen to chief executive officer to help complete the Dutch bank’s privatization, succeeding Gerrit Zalm, who returned the firm to the stock market last year. Van Dijkhuizen, 60, a former state official who has been the lender’s chief financial officer since 2013, will assume the CEO role by mid-February at the ...

  Bloomberg Skye Bank Plc, which had its management replaced by the Central Bank of Nigeria in July after breaching liquidity thresholds, plans to sell units outside of Africa’s biggest oil producer to ease pressure on capital buffers. The Lagos-based lender is seeking to dispose of majority stakes in its businesses in Gambia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, according to two ...