Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron’s approval rating has stumbled less than three months before the first round of the country’s election. Macron’s approval rating fell to 37% in January from 41% a month earlier, while 60% disapproved, according to a poll by Ifop for the Journal du Dimanche published on Sunday. It was the biggest decline in the survey ...

  Bloomberg Standard Bank Group Ltd said 99% of its transaction volumes in South Africa are now cashless, a trend that has helped the continent’s largest lender by assets to cut costs. “It’s extraordinary,” Standard Bank’s Chief Executive Sim Tshabalala said in an interview with Bloomberg News editor-in-chief Emeritus Matthew Winkler at the Africa Business Media Innovators Conversation. “What we’ve ...

  Bloomberg ICICI Bank Ltd’s profit in the third quarter rises 25% from a year earlier, helped by interest earnings from lending as the impact from the coronavirus pandemic eased. Net income was 61.9 billion rupees ($832 million) in the quarter ended December compared with 49.4 billion rupees a year ago, the company said in a statement to the stock ...