Bloomberg India’s Home First Finance Co. is seeking to raise as much as 2.5 billion rupees ($34 million) from an initial public offering (IPO) in the next few weeks as the mortgage provider backed by Warburg Pincus LLC taps rising demand for housing. The country’s first non-bank mortgage lender to sell shares in over two years will offload about a 25% …

Bloomberg Overseas-Chinese Banking Corp. (OCBC) named Helen Wong as Singapore’s first female bank chief executive officer (CEO), putting her in charge of leading the island state’s second-largest lender through a severe economic downturn brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Wong, 59, is replacing Samuel Tsien who will retire in April after running OCBC since 2012, the bank said in a …

Bloomberg South Africa’s volatile currency caught Citigroup Inc. in a wrong-way bet within a day. The New York-based lender recommended a short-dollar position versus the rand, betting the South African currency would strengthen along with emerging-market peers as uncertainty around fiscal stimulus in the US weighed on the dollar. Instead, the rand plunged more than 2% as traders fretted about …