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  Bloomberg As if Brexit wasn’t enough to worry about, India investors now need to cope with central bank Governor Raghuram Rajan’s impending departure. The rupee, Asia’s worst performing currency this year, slumped to its lowest level in four weeks, following Rajan’s weekend announcement that he plans to return to academia when his term ends in September. Volatility in the ...

  Bloomberg German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said European Union policy makers have safeguards in place to avoid “chaotic developments” should Britons vote to leave the bloc. “Ultimately you have to wait for Britons to decide and then you have to respect the decision,” Schaeuble told reporters after a speech at the Institute for the World Economy in Kiel, Germany. ...

  Bloomberg Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said that it plans to launch a financial technology accelerator programme to tap the expertise of startups as a flurry of innovations reshapes finance. This may be the first time a central bank has employed this approach to research and development, a practice long used in Silicon Valley as a way to ...

  Bloomberg Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins wants to help companies develop new technologies such as digital currencies and ensure they meet tough standards to protect consumers and avoid market crashes. “Authorities should support innovation, but the bar will be high, especially for core financial services,” Wilkins said in Calgary. “I worry that players not covered currently ...

  Bloomberg Atop a hill in southern Spain sit a cluster of cement apartment blocks surrounded by scruffy gardens. Built during the go-go years of the country’s property bubble, the development was eerily still on a recent June morning. Banco Popular Espanol SA, which took ownership in a foreclosure, is offering flats for as much as 147,000 euros (US$165,100). Fatima ...

  Bloomberg Jefferies Group is making more changes to the investment-banking division that manages relationships with private equity firms, according to people familiar with the matter, following the departure of the group’s global head, Adam Sokoloff, in March. Christopher Ooten, a managing director at Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch unit, will join Jefferies’s financial sponsor group to replace Theodore ...

  Bloomberg From the immediate possibility of Britain leaving the European Union to the longer-term consequences of aging populations, the world’s major central banks this week just aren’t sure what to do next. Officials from the US, Japan, the UK and Switzerland all opted to keep monetary policy unchanged this week as they await the June 23 Brexit vote and ...

  Bloomberg Spanish authorities are investigating some Banco Santander SA and BNP Paribas SA employees amid allegations they may have helped shield customers’ international transfers from tax authorities, according to a person familiar with the probe. Investigators are trying to work out who within the banks may have been responsible for the alleged transactions by analyzing evidence including papers they ...

  Bloomberg A venture between JPMorgan Chase & Co and private-equity firm Lone Star Funds is the leading bidder to buy Propertize BV, the Dutch bad bank that holds 5.5 billion euros (US$6.1 billion) of loans and real estate, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Propertize may reach a deal to sell the firm in the next ...

  Bloomberg Investigators have linked malware used by Russian and eastern European cyber-gangs to a string of bank heists that culminated in the record-breaking theft of US$81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank, according to people familiar with the probe. The tools used in some of the attacks on as many as 12 banks, mostly in Southeast Asia, match those deployed ...