Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG has hired investment banker Jerry Wiant from Lazard Ltd, where he had a two-year stint as a managing director focused on banking institutions. Wiant will join Credit Suisse’s global financial institutions later this summer as a managing director and head of Americas banks, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg. He joined Lazard in …

Bloomberg Ghana has pumped 800 million cedis ($150 million) into a special purpose vehicle created to bail out banks that don’t have enough capital, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. Ghana Amalgamated Trust (GAT) will be getting the funds from the finance ministry after dropping a plan to raise the money through a bond sale, said the …

Bloomberg A key Canadian interest rate used by lenders to determine who can qualify for a mortgage has dropped for the first time in almost three years, potentially giving the country’s housing market a near-term boost. The Bank of Canada lowered its 5-year conventional mortgage rate to 5.19 percent, from 5.34 percent, where it had been since May 2018. It’s …