Bloomberg India’s $750 billion sovereign-debt market is caught in a tug of war between foreign investors and state-run banks, the biggest holders of the securities. As lenders sold Rs95,200 crore ($14.7 billion) of sovereign bonds last quarter, overseas funds added more than Rs42,200 crore to their holdings of the debt. The dichotomy is stemming from the potential for future gains …

Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region and a pioneer in private sector CSR volunteering in the UAE, has announced that its award-winning Exchanger programme has completed thirteen thousand seven hours of volunteering so far this year, thus coming close to completing its fifteen-thousand-hour target for 2017. The Exchanger programme which has grown 245% since …

Bloomberg Bank of England (BOE) facilities staff voted to go on strike for four days in a dispute over pay in the first action of its kind at the central bank in 50 years, according to a labor union. Ninety five percent of Unite’s members in the BOE’s maintenance, security and the governors’ private offices — known as the parlours …