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Cathay CEO says cabin crew incident hurt Hong Kong’s image

BLOOMBERG An incident involving three Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd cabin crew making “inappropriate comments” about customers on a recent flight has set back the airline’s recovery and caused significant damage to its image, as well as Hong Kong’s, the carrier’s chief executive officer told employees. Ronald Lam, who became CEO at the start of the year, was referring to a ...

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EU’s top lenders would need central bank aid in crisis: SRB

BLOOMBERG The failure of Credit Suisse Group AG shows that Europe’s top lenders would still need liquidity assistance from central banks if they were to collapse, according a top regulator. That case made clear that the needs of a so-called global systemically important bank in crisis would outstrip the bloc’s bank failure fund, as well as a planned additional facility, ...

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Indian central bank’s dollar purchases cast a pall over the rupee

BLOOMBERG Dollar purchases by the Indian central bank to limit the impact of foreign inflows are helping lead to shortages of the US currency in the Indian banking system and weighing on the rupee, according to analysts. The rupee has given up all of this year’s gains, having been up about 1% at the beginning of May and among Asia’s ...

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