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Bloomberg India’s central bank is expected to increase its policy rate by half a point for the third time in a row as the currency’s plunge to a record low this month complicates the battle against inflation. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) six-member monetary policy committee will raise its repurchase rate by 50 basis points to 5.9%, according to ...

Bloomberg Bank Indonesia seeks to reduce the country’s reliance on the US dollar, with plans to allow domestic transactions of non-deliverable forwards in other currencies and to strike more agreements on local currency settlement. The central bank could offer non-US dollar-denominated domestic NDFs next year, Edi Susianto, executive director for monetary management, said in interview on Thursday. The monetary authority ...

Bloomberg Taiwan’s central bank won’t impose foreign-exchange controls, Governor Yang Chin-long said on Thursday as he attempted to clarify earlier remarks about how aggressive the monetary authority might become to ensure stability in financial markets. The central bank is capable of coping with capital outflows, Yang told lawmakers, acknowledging that foreign outflows are higher in 2022 than in previous years, ...

  Bloomberg Thailand’s central bank raised borrowing costs by a quarter-point, putting it further behind the policy tightening that peers in the region have followed to tame inflation and stem currency weakness. The baht extended its decline. The Bank of Thailand’s monetary policy committee voted unanimously to raise the one-day repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 1%, as seen ...

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. appointed Grant Carson to manage its operations in Russia as a stand-alone entity as the US bank reduces its business in the country following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia will continue to be part of Citigroup’s EMEA emerging markets cluster under its regional Chief Executive Officer Ebru Pakcan, according to an internal memo seen ...

  Bloomberg European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said borrowing costs will be raised at the next “several meetings” to ensure inflation expectations remain anchored and price gains return to the target. Addressing an event in Frankfurt, Lagarde said bringing inflation back to the 2% medium-term goal is the ECB’s main mission — despite increasing concerns about recessions in ...

  Bloomberg The onshore yuan falls to the weakest level against the dollar since the global financial crisis in 2008, amid an incessant advance in the greenback and speculation China is toning down its support for the local currency. The onshore yuan weakened to 7.2409 per dollar, a level unseen in 14 years, while the offshore unit slid to an ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s UK digital lender has attracted 1 million customers in its first year of operation, making it one of the UK’s most popular neobanks. Chase UK clients hold an average of £27,000 ($29,084) in their Chase Saver account, according to a statement on Wednesday. The lender said it has processed about 92 million card and payment ...

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. signed a lease for a new office in Birmingham, England, that could eventually accommodate as many as 1,000 staff. The Wall Street bank has signed a long-term lease for about 110,000 square feet of space in One Centenary Way, an office being built at the Paradise Birmingham development, according to a statement Wednesday. Goldman ...

  Bloomberg Bank Indonesia stepped in to prop up the rupiah for a second day, joining a host of other policy makers which are pushing back against a surging dollar. Indonesian authorities are intervening in the spot and domestic non-deliverable forwards markets to prevent the rupiah from weakening excessively, Edi Susianto, executive director of monetary management, said in a text ...