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Citigroup’s Brazil assets value put at $450 million

  Bloomberg Banco Santander SA, Spain’s biggest bank, hired Morgan Stanley as an adviser to help it buy Citigroup Inc.’s retail assets in Brazil for $350 million to $450 million, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Santander, whose Brazil unit generates about 19 percent of the Madrid-based company’s revenue, also is working with Credit Suisse Group AG, ...

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ICBC turns back bad-loan tide

  Bloomberg Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the world’s largest lender by assets, reported the first decline in its bad-loan ratio since 2012 in the second quarter, while eking out 1 percent profit growth. ICBC’s non-performing loans fell 4 percent to 196.3 billion yuan ($29.4 billion) at the end of June from three months earlier, according an earnings ...

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Fed bans, fines ex-Barclays trader

Bloomberg Former Barclays Plc trader Christopher Ashton, a member of “The Cartel” chat room where bank traders allegedly manipulated foreign-exchange rates, is being fined $1.2 million by the Federal Reserve and permanently banned from U.S. banking. Ashton, previously global head of the FX spot business at Barclays in London, was accused of using electronic chat rooms to manipulate currency pricing ...

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