Bloomberg South Korea’s won is seen strengthening further after bouncing back from a 13-year low to become Asia’s best-performing currency, as the outlook for global trade improves for the major exporting nation. The won has climbed 6% against the dollar this month, the biggest rise among major Asian currencies, amid expectations of softer rate increases in the US and China’s ...

  Bloomberg China’s financial regulators have asked banks to stabilise lending to property developers and construction firms, the latest effort by policymakers to turn around the real-estate crisis and bolster economic growth. Authorities support the “reasonable” extension of existing real estate development loans and trust loans, according to a statement posted on the People’s Bank of China’s (PBOC) website after ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is weighing cuts to its leveraged finance unit as part of a review by Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing into under-performing businesses as his three-year restructuring concludes. The exercise is scheduled to finish next month and may result in less capital and other resources including staff being allocated to the business of providing loans to ...