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  AFP Mark Carney’s third week managing Britain’s response to the economic shock of Brexit is about to begin. With UK politics in disarray after the nation opted to split from the European Union, the Bank of England governor has been leading the charge in offering stability. After boosting liquidity, freeing banks to lend more and signaling a willingness to ...

  Bloomberg Forget Brexit, go for raw materials. Citigroup Inc says that it’s bullish on the outlook for commodities in 2017 as the impact of the UK’s vote to quit the European Union will fade, global growth chugs along and investors will plow more cash into funds. “Citi is especially bullish commodities for 2017,” analysts led by Ed Morse wrote ...

  Bloomberg Kazakhstan’s central bank is prepared to return to the currency market in force to mop up excess dollars after a month of doing “practically zero” as higher returns draw savers to tenge deposits, Governor Daniyar Akishev said. “If there are significant inflows of foreign currency, we are ready to buy as before,” Akishev said in an interview on ...

  Bloomberg Borrowing costs in Shanghai fell to the lowest level since May as funds returned to the banking system following increased demand for quarter-end regulatory needs. The decline comes even amid signs that the central bank is against maintaining excessive liquidity as it looks to limit volatility in money-market rates. Data released over the weekend showed factory-gate deflation eased ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is pushing ahead with plans to become one of the world’s top five wealth managers as the business outlook for European banks worsens because of the Brexit vote and Italy’s banking crisis. Market volatility after the UK’s vote to leave the European Union underscores the need for Germany’s largest bank to bolster its presence outside ...

  AFP Deutsche Bank once epitomised the best of Germany’s financial sector, shining brightly as the European economic powerhouse’s biggest lender. But this week its share price slid to new lows, fuelling concerns about the health of the institution, with some even questioning if it has a long-term future and the IMF moved to see it as a “systemic” risk ...

  AP An ex-executive at a New York investment bank has admitted to defrauding investors of more than US$38 million, blaming it on his gambling addiction. Andrew Caspersen pleaded guilty to securities and wire fraud in federal court in Manhattan. Prosecutors say he scammed clients of PJT Partners Inc into investing millions of dollars in sham private equity investments. They ...

  AP The president of Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank is resigning less than a week after the federal government passed measures to aid the US territory’s dire finances. Melba Acosta said she’ll step down July 31 to focus on her professional career. She directs a bank that issues loans to government agencies and is responsible for overseeing Puerto Rico’s ...

  AFP Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco said that public intervention in the country’s banks was not to be ruled out amid growing fears the sector’s 360 billion euros (US$398 billion) in bad debt would trigger a potentially contagious banking crisis. “Given the risk that, in a context of high uncertainty, limited problems could undermine the trust in the ...

  Bloomberg The 16.9 million people receiving welfare payments from South Africa’s government into bank accounts should have the right to choose between financial services companies, according to the country’s central bank. A contract awarded by the South African Social Security Agency to Johannesburg-based Net 1 UEPS Technologies Inc to pay grants electronically in 2012 has this year been dogged ...