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Co-op Bank plans $912mn capital raising if sale fails

  Bloomberg Co-Operative Bank Plc, the British lender that put itself up for sale last month, said it might look to raise as much as 750 million pounds ($912 million) by selling new shares and converting debt to equity if a buyer isn’t found. The bank may seek about 300 million pounds by selling new stock while asking bondholders to ...

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China plans stricter bank capital rules to contain risks

  Bloomberg China’s central bank plans to apply a stricter method for assessing banks’ capital as part of efforts to contain financial-sector risks, people with knowledge of the matter said. Under the proposed change to the so-called Macro Prudential Assessment (MPA) framework, the People’s Bank of China will remove an intermediary category in its evaluation of banks’ capital adequacy, the ...

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UNB to open China branch, expand in Egypt: CEO

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Union National Bank (UNB), 50 percent owned by the Abu Dhabi government, will open its first branch in China next month, its chief executive said, as Gulf banks expand in the world’s second biggest economy. Union National has got approval from China’s central bank to convert its representative office into a branch in Shanghai, ...

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