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China’s Postal Bank to win $8bn IPO approval

  Bloomberg Postal Savings Bank of China Co., moving closer to the world’s biggest share sale this year, won Hong Kong stock exchange approval for an initial public offering that could raise about $8 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said. The Beijing-based bank plans to start gauging investor demand for the offering in the first half of September, ...

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Popularity outweighs bank profit as Kenya follows Erdogan

  Bloomberg Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is borrowing a page from Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a quest to boost his popularity before elections next year by picking a fight with his country’s banks. Both leaders had for years been trying to lower borrowing costs. Erdogan succeeded earlier this month when he announced that he would view as an act ...

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Mitsubishi regional plane heads to US after failed test

  Bloomberg / AFP Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s regional jet aircraft took off again for the US on Sunday after aborting its maiden test flight to the US a day earlier due to problems with an on-board system about an hour into the trip. The aircraft, Japan’s first passenger plane developed at home in more than a half century, took off ...

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