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, ...

  Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank has cut borrowing costs enough to spur growth in the economy, Senior Deputy Governor Mirza Adityaswara said, giving his clearest signal yet that the bank’s easing policy is over as inflation pressures pick up. Boosting growth is “not about interest rates anymore,” Adityaswara said in an interview in Jakarta on Thursday. “We monitor the external ...

  Bloomberg For Mario Draghi, ‘all talk and no action’ at the European Central Bank may be just fine this week. The ECB president essentially preempted Thursday’s monetary policy decision back in December, when he announced that bond purchases will be extended until at least the end of 2017. With updated inflation forecasts said to be little changed for 2018 ...