Bloomberg Morgan Stanley boosted salaries for the second time in a month, raising the stakes again in a Wall Street bidding war for new talent. The firm bumped base pay for junior bankers to $110,000, a mark that will now also cover first-year staff in the trading division, a person familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified ...

Bloomberg Nigeria’s central bank selected Bitt Inc. as a technical partner to help create its digital currency by the end of the year. The Barbados-registered financial technology company will help the regulator to launch the new currency, named eNaira, Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele said in an emailed statement. The company was picked for its “technological competence, efficiency, platform security, ...

Bloomberg The Indian rupee’s outsized gains over the last three sessions is spurring talk that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may have loosened its grip over the currency. The rupee has rallied 1.6% in the previous three sessions to post its biggest gain for the period since March 2 The exchange rate had been moving within a range of ...