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  Bloomberg Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA is clearing the final hurdles for its crucial €2.5 billion ($2.4 billion) share sale, with Chief Executive Officer Luigi Lovaglio close to having enough backing from investors to convince banks underwriting the deal. Parties are fine-tuning the details in order to start the share sale next week, people familiar with the ...

  Bloomberg The operations of Saigon Commercial Bank, which faced days of panicked customers pulling out their savings, are ‘stable’ and some clients are now returning to deposit money, according to Vo Minh Tuan, head of the central bank’s Ho Chi Minh City branch. “SCB’s situation has become more stable now as the number of people coming in to withdraw ...

  Bloomberg On the face of it, it was almost a good week for Credit Suisse Group AG, the stock recording its biggest gain in two years. But that glosses over a rollercoaster ride that saw the cost to insure its debt against default surge to a record, amid speculation about how the bank might finance its long-awaited restructuring. The ...

  Bloomberg Yes Bank Ltd., the Indian bank that almost collapsed two years ago from bad loans, is now on a hunt to buy stressed assets from other lenders. A new partnership with US private-equity firm JC Flowers & Co. LLC allows it to buy soured loans of other banks, Prashant Kumar, chief executive officer of the Mumbai-based lender, said ...

  Bloomberg Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) expects to gain more market share in UK wealth-management business in the years ahead, with its technological capabilities key to attracting clients. Canada’s largest bank has completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of Brewin Dolphin, vaulting its wealth-management operation to the No. 3 spot in the UK and Ireland. Still, the industry in the ...

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc has spent the past six months fighting calls from its largest shareholder to split up. That isn’t stopping the bank ramping up its own deal-making program. The London-based lender expects to increase the amount of acquisitions it makes in the coming years, a person familiar with the company’s thinking said. Further disposals are also expected but ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of Korea (BOK) is set to pivot back to an outsized interest-rate increase as it seeks to keep pace with the Federal Reserve and rein in inflationary pressures exacerbated by a weaker currency. The central bank will raise its key rate by a larger-than-regular 50 basis points to 3% at Wednesday’s meeting despite having dialled back ...

Bloomberg The world’s top central banks reacted too slowly to accelerating prices, according Swiss National Bank President Thomas Jordan. “Inflation has been underestimated globally,” Jordan said in Zurich, adding that leading rate setters “very likely waited too long” combating it. “But you have to say: Uncertainty was exceptionally high in this situation — and stays high,” he said. “Central banks ...

  Bloomberg Pakistan’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a second consecutive meeting to support an economy staring at crises worsened by deadly floods. The State Bank of Pakistan maintained the target rate at 15% , as forecast by 40 of 43 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Three expected a cut ranging between 25-50 basis points. The decision ...

  Bloomberg India’s central bank is working towards a phased introduction of a digital currency and will put forth a final design after it has conducted large scale pilot projects. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is exploring the option of implementation of an account-based central bank digital currency or CBDC for the wholesale segment and token-based currency for the retail ...