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‘Funds’ from Bangladesh Bank send stocks higher

Bloomberg Bangladesh stocks headed for the biggest gain in 17 months after lenders were allowed to borrow from the central bank to invest in equities. Bangladesh Bank allowed commercial banks to borrow at 6 percent using repurchase agreements, it said in a statement. The DSE Broad Index jumped as much as 2.3 percent in Dhaka, set for the biggest jump ...

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Credit Suisse ordered to monitor star banker before joining rival UBS

Bloomberg A made-in-Zurich banking drama spilled out into the open after it emerged that ex-top Credit Suisse Group AG banker Iqbal Khan had been shadowed by the lender, leading to a confrontation in broad daylight in the Swiss financial capital. The private banker, hired by crosstown rival UBS Group AG last month, was followed by detectives trying to establish if ...

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Citi’s top banker in Miami becomes CEO prospect

Bloomberg Jane Fraser is not exactly a big name on Wall Street. Based in Miami, she runs Citigroup Inc’s operations across Latin America, a region that generates less than 15 percent of the bank’s revenue. And yet, after chief executive officers stepped down at two of the world’s biggest banks in recent months — first, at Wells Fargo & Co ...

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