Bloomberg Barclays Plc has sold a 7.4% stake in former African unit Absa Group Ltd for 526 million pounds ($687 million), cutting its holding by half. The firm priced an accelerated placing of 63 million shares at 164 rand each ($10.88), according to a statement. That was a 7.3% discount to the Johannesburg-listed stock’s Wednesday close. Barclays gathered enough investor ...

  Bloomberg BDO Unibank Inc, the Philippines’ largest lender by assets, wants the country’s next president to be tough against the cybercrimes. Financial service providers that are outside the scope of central bank regulations have proliferated, and “for the health of the industry and the public, they should look at how these entities should be managed relative to banks” which ...

  Bloomberg Governor Tiff Macklem acknowledged there’s potential for even larger increases to borrowing costs as the Bank of Canada (BOC) aggressively wrestles inflation down from a three decade high. Macklem and his officials delivered the first 50-basis-point increase in interest rates among Group of Seven nations last week and signalled more hikes to come. This week, annual consumer price gains ...