JAKARTA / Reuters Suriname’s Trust Bank hopes to complete a conversion of its operations to Islamic banking by the end of this year, becoming the first full-fledged Islamic bank in South America, its chief executive said. Last week the bank received approval in principle from the central bank for the transition, as it aims to expand financing to small ...

  BLOOMBERG British house prices would take a severe blow in the years immediately after a vote to leave the European Union, according to an analysis by the Treasury. The study concludes that prices would be between 10 percent and 18 percent lower by 2018 relative to their performance inside the EU, according to the Treasury. However, Chancellor of the ...

  Bloomberg Japan’s biggest real estate companies are borrowing record amounts of cheap cash to pay for the nation’s tallest skyscrapers yet. Mitsubishi Estate Co. plans to build a 390 meter (1,280 feet) tower with 61 floors above ground in front of Tokyo Station, making it the nation’s biggest building. That and 27 other urban renewal projects in Japan’s capital ...