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Skye’s crash casts doubt over health of small Nigerian banks

Bloomberg The collapse of Skye Bank Plc is darkening the outlook for Nigeria’s other small lenders struggling to recover from the economy’s contraction two years ago, and threatening to derail the regulator’s ambitions of expanding the industry. The Central Bank of Nigeria revoked the lender’s license for failing to meet capital and liquidity thresholds since the authorities first intervened to ...

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India’s IL&FS seeks investor approval to sell equity, assets

Bloomberg India’s troubled shadow bank Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd., whose recent debt defaults sparked concern about contagion in the nation’s financial markets, has sought shareholder’s approval for a plan to revive the firm at the company’s annual general meeting on Saturday. The management aims to bring the group back to normalcy by selling shares through a rights issue, ...

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China to maintain neutral and stable monetary policy: PBOC

Bloomberg China will maintain a neutral and stable monetary policy while also assuring reasonable and ample liquidity, the People’s Bank of China said in a statement on Saturday. China’s overall exchange rate and market expectations are stable, the bank said at its third-quarter meeting. The nation will continue to deepen its financial system reform, the PBOC said in its statement. ...

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