REUTERS Kuwait’s Gulf Bank said a court ruled in favour of the lender in a 55.3 million dinar (US$182.99 million) dispute with The Cube Group to auction assets, according to a bourse filing. This is to go towards covering part of its debt to the lender, Gulf Bank said in the statement. The court ruling is final, the statement ...

  Bloomberg Brazil’s state development bank BNDES will sell equity assets and utilize concessions and privatisations as it seeks to attract the private investment needed to pull Latin America’s largest economy out of recession, according to the bank’s new president. Maria Silvia Bastos Marques took over as head of the bank known as BNDES, saying she will personally oversee the ...

  BLOOMBERG Australia’s securities regulator is set to start civil legal proceedings against National Australia Bank Ltd. for allegedly manipulating the nation’s benchmark swap rate, according to a person familiar with the matter. It will be the third such legal action in a more-than three-year investigation by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission into alleged manipulation of the bank-bill swap ...