Bloomberg As far as Citigroup Inc. is concerned, Mexico has little choice but to carry out an unprecedented interest-rate increase to arrest a plunge in the peso triggered by Donald Trump’s recent surge in US presidential polls. Mexico’s exchange rate has tumbled 6 percent in the past month, the biggest slide among the world’s major currencies. Citigroup economist Sergio ...

  Bloomberg As Indian Overseas Bank tackles the highest ratio of soured loans among lenders in Asia’s third-largest economy, it doesn’t help that there hasn’t been a chief executive officer at the helm for about three months. The state-controlled lender based in the southern city of Chennai has had a leadership vacuum since R. Koteeswaran retired on June 30 after ...

  Bloomberg National Bank of Canada (NBC) is set to become the first North American bank to issue panda bonds, joining international lenders including Standard Chartered Plc and HSBC Holdings Plc in issuing yuan-denominated securities in China’s domestic bond market. National Bank, the nation’s sixth-largest lender by assets, was approved to sell up to 5 billion yuan ($750 million) of ...