Bloomberg Nomura Holdings Inc plans to introduce flexible work on a permanent basis for its overseas staff, the latest global financial firm to consider such a move as the pandemic reshapes office life. While the planning is at an early stage, Nomura sees both an “appetite and ability to support an operating model in which 50% of our corporate workforce ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank cut its policy rate for the first time in four months, urging banks to lend more to help drive an economic recovery. Bank Indonesia cut its seven-day reverse repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%, the lowest since the benchmark was introduced in 2016, as predicted by 11 of 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. “I ...

Bloomberg China’s central bank remains on course to taper its emergency support even as a string of defaults by government-linked companies sends tremors through the credit markets. Officials have been preparing investors about the possibility of withdrawing some of that stimulus as the economic recovery picks up pace. While a surge in market interest rates following the defaults appears to ...