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UBS leans towards Frankfurt for EU hub

Bloomberg UBS Group AG is leaning towards Frankfurt for its trading headquarters inside the European Union after Brexit, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. The Swiss firm’s investment bank employs about 4,800 bankers globally and could move 250 or more jobs out of London to Frankfurt and other European locations, two of the people briefed on the ...

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Guatemala crisis to hinder growth, says central bank

Bloomberg Guatemala’s second major political crisis in two years could hurt economic growth if it drags on, interim Central Bank President Sergio Recinos said. The crisis, which deepened after a court overruled President Jimmy Morales’s attempt to expel UN-backed anti-corruption chief Ivan Velasquez, was a factor in the central bank’s decision not to raise interest rates, and has dampened investor ...

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Ex-RBI governor warned Modi against demonetisation

Bloomberg The man who predicted the 2008 global financial crisis also presaged the damage Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unprecedented cash ban would cause to India’s economy. Raghuram Rajan was governor of the Reserve Bank of India in February 2016, when he was asked by the government for his views on demonetisation, according to Rajan’s book “I do what I do”, ...

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