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Wall Street leads chorus to get back into the emerging-market game

Bloomberg This year won’t see a re-run of nightmare on EM street, according to a trio of top American banks, more than a few money managers and even a former central banker. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says fundamentals in emerging markets are mostly intact in the wake of the recent stress test from higher US interest rates, a rally in ...

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Central bank covers GCB Bank of Ghana’s $461mn takeover liability

Bloomberg GCB Bank of Ghana Ltd. said it received a 2.2 billion-cedi ($461 million) bond from the central bank for taking over the assets of two failed lenders in 2017. Ghana’s biggest lender by branch network acquired the liabilities and some assets of UT Bank Ltd. and Capital Bank Ltd. in August after the companies collapsed as they failed to ...

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SocGen reaches agreements on benchmark, Libya probe

Bloomberg Societe Generale SA agreed with US authorities to settle probes into interest-rate manipulation and the bribery of Libyan officials, drawing a line under two of the French bank’s biggest legal headaches. SocGen agreed to pay undisclosed penalties to resolve US investigations that it submitted misleading numbers for the London interbank offered rate and, in a separate case, bribed Libyans ...

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