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Credit strains prompt Seoul to revive $1.1 billion bond fund

South Korea is redoubling efforts to shore up the local credit market as yields surge to decade highs and default risks spread, extending efforts to support markets after the country already stepped in earlier this year to slow a tumbling won. Authorities will swiftly resume buying corporate debt via a 1.6 trillion won ($1.1 billion) bond stabilisation fund established at ...

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India pushes for $7.7b value for IDBI Bank in stake sale

India is pushing for a valuation of around 640 billion rupees ($7.7 billion) for state-owned IDBI Bank Ltd. in what could be the biggest sale of the government’s stake in a lender in decades, according to a person familiar with the matter. The government earlier this month invited bidders for a 60.72% stake in the Mumbai-listed lender. The valuation target ...

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Deutsche Bank pledges to cut emissions from loans to oil, gas

Deutsche Bank AG has given its clearest indication yet of how it plans to deliver on the commitment it made last year to reach net-zero financed emissions by 2050. Germany’s biggest bank said in a statement that it will “significantly” reduce its so-called Scope 3 emissions, which are also known as financed emissions, by 2030 and announced a set of ...

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