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India provides creditors path to recover loans

Bloomberg India unveiled rules to help creditors recover loans due from large shadow lenders as a prolonged upheaval in the nation’s credit markets raises the risk of defaults by the financiers. The amended law provides a generic framework for insolvency and liquidation proceedings of systemically important financial services providers, other than banks, according to a government statement. The 15-month-old credit ...

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Japan’s ‘bark worse than bite’ in South Korea trade spat: Citi

Bloomberg Japan’s trade curbs on South Korea have so far been a case of “the bark was worse than the bite,” with only limited fallout for South Korea’s economy, according to Citigroup Inc. Japan’s tighter scrutiny of exports of three key materials used in the chip industry and Tokyo’s removal of its neighbour from a list of trusted trading partners ...

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Indonesia’s budget deficit set to widen

Bloomberg Indonesia’s budget deficit has ballooned to more than $20 billion and is set to widen further as Southeast Asia’s largest economy struggles amid a global slowdown. With the government on pace to miss revenue targets, the 2019 budget deficit is now expected to reach as much as 2.2% of gross domestic product, from an initial target of 1.84%. Figures ...

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