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  Bloomberg Nigeria unveils redesigned high-denomination banknotes as the central bank confirmed a January deadline to roll out the new bills despite calls for an extension. “We will not shift the deadline,” Governor Godwin Emefiele said at a briefing in the capital, Abuja. Critics of the move have argued that the six-week window will cause massive lines at banks and ...

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will pay $4 million to settle US regulators’ claims that its asset-management unit didn’t properly weigh environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in some of its investment products. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that the Goldman Sachs Asset Management unit “had several policies and procedures failures involving the ESG research its investment ...

  Bloomberg The world’s central banks must keep raising interest rates to fight soaring and pervasive inflation, even as the global economy sinks into a significant slowdown, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Tuesday. The unexpected surge in prices and its impact on real incomes is hurting people everywhere, creating problems that will only worsen if ...

  Bloomberg Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ) plans to withdraw from Myanmar by next year citing increasing “operational complexity”, underscoring how global companies are turning cautious on the country after a 2021 military coup. The move to cease operations in Myanmar is subject to local regulatory approval and the lender has been “working with its Institutional customers ...

Bloomberg Private equity firms and pension funds will soon face a reckoning as they adjust their private holdings to reflect lower valuations, according to the chief investment officer of BMO Global Asset Management. There’s “going to be a big markdown,” Sadiq Adatia said in an interview. “That might be worse than getting that pain gradually over the year.” Stocks are ...

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) will continue to increase borrowing costs, according to Governing Council member Robert Holzmann. “We’ve recently raised interest rates strongly,” he said in Vienna. “We will raise interest rates further.” Still, the Austrian central bank chief — among the ECB’s most hawkish officials — said the Governing Council must be mindful of too strong ...

  Bloomberg The cost of a five-year fixed-rate mortgage has fallen below 6% for the first time in almost seven weeks, providing a glimmer of hope for Britons affected by the UK’s home loans crunch. The average five-year fixed-rate mortgage falls to 5.95% on Tuesday, according to Moneyfacts Group Plc. That’s the first time it has dropped below the threshold ...

  Bloomberg The resurgent Hong Kong dollar has pushed closer to the strong half of its trading band, amid a spike in local funding costs that has upended crowded bets on shorting the currency. The Hong Kong dollar saw its biggest intraday rise in three years on Monday to as high as 7.8004 per dollar, bringing its gain for November ...

  Bloomberg Bank of New York Mellon’s Frankfurt offices are being raided by Cologne prosecutors as part of their vast investigation into the controversial Cum-Ex scandal that has increasingly ensnared Wall Street’s biggest banks. The raid began on Tuesday, people familiar with the process said. A spokesman for Cologne prosecutors said searches at two unidentified banks started and included the ...

Bloomberg South Korea’s won is seen strengthening further after bouncing back from a 13-year low to become Asia’s best-performing currency, as the outlook for global trade improves for the major exporting nation. The won has climbed 6% against the dollar this month, the biggest rise among major Asian currencies, amid expectations of softer rate increases in the US and China’s ...