BLOOMBERG Qantas Airways Ltd’s new boss Vanessa Hudson started work trying to restore the airline’s battered reputation with increased spending on major customer bugbears such as on-board catering, call-centre staffing and loyalty-point flight redemptions. Less than three weeks after taking the helm, the new chief executive officer has been forced to fix stress points that fractured under predecessor Alan Joyce. …

BLOOMBERG India’s rupee will not drop past the 84-per dollar mark even if the greenback strengthens further from current levels as the nation’s central bank will step in to defend the currency, according to Standard Chartered (StanChart). “The Reserve Bank of India has been protecting rupee from depreciating very sharply,” Parul Mittal Sinha, head of India financial markets at the …

BLOOMBERG Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is cleaning up City National Bank’s balance sheet after the US lender posted a money-losing quarter amid higher rates and the crisis of confidence at regional banks. RBC made a capital injection into City National and bought debt securities from it, boosting the Los Angeles-based division’s liquidity and capital and allowing it to pay …