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Danske to slash fixed income, currency jobs as profits stall

Bloomberg Danske Bank A/S will target its fixed-income and currencies unit for job cuts as part of a sweeping plan to revive profits amid rising compliance costs and entrenched negative interest rates. Denmark’s biggest bank, which is being investigated for money laundering across Europe and in the US, missed analysts’ profit estimates, third-quarter results showed. It acknowledged its result this ...

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Zimbabwe set to release banknotes after a decade

Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s central bank is preparing to release new Z$2 ($0.13) and Z$5 banknotes that will come into circulation this month after a decade-long absence, according to a release in a government gazette. Since the reintroduction of the Zimbabwe dollar as the sole legal tender in June, transactions have been conducted in bond notes and coins, which, until February, had ...

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IMF completes sixth review of Sri Lanka

Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund’s(IMF) executive board completed a sixth review of Sri Lanka’s economic performance, enabling the disbursement of about $164 million in supporting funds. This brought total disbursements under the Extended Fund Facility arrangement to about $1.31 billion, the IMF said in a statement dated November 1 on its website. Sri Lanka’s economy is gradually recovering from the ...

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