Bloomberg Citadel Securities LLC agreed to pay a 670 million-yuan ($97 million) settlement for alleged trading irregularities during the 2015 market rout in China. The settlement was announced by the China Securities Regulatory Commission in a statement on its website. With that, the regulator has ended investigation into suspected account and asset management rule violations, it said, without giving more ...

Bloomberg India needs a bigger bond market now more than ever, to help get funds to cash-strapped companies cut off from their shadow lenders by a crisis in that sector. But a Bloomberg survey shows that sales of local rupee corporate notes will grow only 2% this year, a similar rate to 2019 that’s historically low. India’s corporate bond market ...

Bloomberg China will curtail its consumption of single-use plastic in an effort to tackle a soaring amount of the discarded material that has quickly become one of the world’s most pressing environmental crises. Non-degradable plastic bags will be banned in places such as supermarkets and shopping malls in major cities, as well as for the country’s ubiquitous food delivery services ...