Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India’s board bought more time to review the government’s demand for a greater say in the central bank’s functioning, one of the issues that had fostered hostilities between the two sides. “The board deliberated on the governance framework of the Reserve Bank and it was decided that the matter required further examination,” the central bank …

Bloomberg Taiwan’s banks, voracious lenders to Chinese companies in recent years, are starting to cool their appetite as they contemplate the longer-term consequences of the US-China trade war. Faced with low interest rates at home, Taiwanese lenders — renowned for their clout in Asia’s syndicated loan market — poured across into the mainland, so much so that the local regulator …

Bloomberg Germany’s Bundesbank expressed confidence that the economy will quickly overcome its latest slowdown, even though it cautioned that growing protectionism and a disorderly Brexit pose threats to the outlook. The central bank lowered its growth forecasts for 2018 and 2019 and also cut its inflation outlook for next year. Output in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, contracted in the third …