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Wells Fargo sees rising legal risk amid sales abuse probe

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. boosted an estimate for potential legal losses by $500 million while disclosing that it’s in early talks to resolve another round of probes into sales abuses at its branches. The company said it might have to spend as much as $2.7 billion more than what it set aside by the end of December to resolve ...

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MUFG to buy DZ bank’s aviation business for $6.4bn

Bloomberg Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. agreed to buy DZ Bank’s aviation finance division in one of its biggest acquisitions since it was created in 2005. The assets MUFG bought from Germany’s second-largest bank, held by its subsidiary DVB Bank, include a loan portfolio of 5.6 billion euros ($6.4 billion) as well as the unit’s employees and “parts of the ...

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Bank of Korea keeps key rate steady

Bloomberg South Korea’s central bank left its key interest rate unchanged as the outlook for Asia’s fourth-largest economy weakens amid falling exports, soft jobs growth and waning inflation. The Bank of Korea kept the seven-day repurchase rate at 1.75 percent, as forecast by all 26 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Most economists expect the BOK to leave borrowing costs where they ...

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