BLOOMBERG  Standard Chartered Plc agreed to sell its Zimbabwe business to the country’s FBC Holdings Ltd as it presses ahead with plans to exit seven markets in Africa and the Middle East. The emerging markets-focussed bank will transfer 100% of its shareholding in the unit, including the custodial services business, to FBCH, as the investment holding company is known. FBCH ...

BLOOMBERG  China’s four big state lenders have effectively cut dollar deposit rates, according to people familiar with the matter, at a time when strong demand for the US currency in the banking system helped push the yuan to a six-month low. The banks have lowered the ceiling on the rates — which are a spread over the US Secured Overnight ...

LIMA / PERU / WAM The UAE and the Republic of Peru signed an air services agreement, with Mohammed Abdullah Al Shamsi, UAE ambassador to the Republic of Peru, signing on behalf of the UAE and Gervasi Díaz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, representing Peru. This agreement will open new horizons for cooperation between the two countries and promote intra-trade. Al ...