Bloomberg Christine Lagarde has a plan for rebutting German criticism of the bond-buying programme she inherited as European Central Bank (ECB) president: Put a German in charge of it. Lagarde has handed one of the ECB’s highest-profile roles to a German who has taken a stand against undue sniping at the institution’s policies. Isabel Schnabel, a University of Bonn economics …

Bloomberg China’s financial regulator said it will implement a series of measures to shore up the nation’s troubled smaller banks and insurers while continuing a clampdown on shadow financing and property speculation. The regulator will introduce measures to eliminate bad loans and promote mergers, capital injections and the restructuring of high risk institutions, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission …

Emirates Business His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has been voted the most prominent Arab leader 2019 in a readers’ poll conducted by Russia Today TV (RT). According to the Russian state TV, 9.74 million out of total 14 million respondents chose Sheikh Mohamed …