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Banks, investor push to solve $32b Eskom debt crisis

Bloomberg Nedbank Group Ltd is leading discussions to restructure South African power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd’s $32 billion debt load, according to people familiar with the talks. The parties met in recent days, and one of the options is to transfer at least 100 billion rand of debt to a special-purpose vehicle that would be overseen by the Public ...

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Nigerian court freezes Shell accounts in dispute over oil deal

Bloomberg A Nigerian court restricted Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s access to its bank accounts in the West African country amid a legal dispute with a local oil producer over a pipeline deal six years ago. Aiteo Eastern E&P Co Ltd is demanding billions of dollars in damages, claiming Shell misrepresented the condition of the pipeline and under-counted the volume of ...

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India’s Modi failed to make a Singapore in Gujarat

When Singapore set up an international financial hub in the late 1960s, the city-state was thinking both fast and slow — seizing an immediate opportunity, and opening a path to long-term economic development. Half a century later, India is attempting something similar in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. For Singapore, the British pound’s 1967 devaluation was the ...

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