Bloomberg China’s benchmark money-market rate declined the most in two years after the central bank took measures to ease a liquidity crunch. The benchmark seven-day repurchase rate fell 37 basis points to 2.30 percent, according to weighted average prices from the National Interbank Funding Center. The average interbank repo rate surged to a 20-month high in December on a …

  Bloomberg Yeo Jiawei, a former BSI SA banker found guilty of attempting to tamper with witnesses in a Singapore probe linked to 1Malaysia Development Bhd., will appeal his conviction and sentence, according to his lawyer. Yeo, 34, was sentenced on Dec. 22 to a 30-month jail term, the longest yet handed down by the city’s courts in 1MDB-related cases. …

  Bloomberg The Federal Reserve’s plan to further withdraw support for the US economy will ease pressure on other major central banks to keep up their own ‘aggressive’ monetary stimulus, former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said. “I think with the Federal Reserve seeing limited room for continued accommodation and starting to raise interest rates, I think you …