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Emirates Islamic Bank plans benchmark-sized Sukuk

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  Bloomberg Emirates Islamic Bank PJSC, Dubai’s second-biggest Shariah-compliant lender, has mandated banks including HSBC Holdings Plc for the sale of Islamic bonds, according to two people familiar with the issue. The sale of the dollar-denominated, benchmark-sized securities may begin as early as this week, said the people, asking not to be identified because the information is private. Standard Chartered ...

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China Central Bank reassures on policy after credit slows

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  Bloomberg China’s central bank reassured investors that monetary policy will continue to support the economy after a sharp slowdown in new credit last month, and said the lending slump was temporary. The deceleration in the growth of new yuan loans in April was mainly due to a pick-up in a program to swap high-cost local government debt for cheaper ...

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Carney defends BoE against critics furious at Brexit remark

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  Bloomberg Mark Carney defended the Bank of England against political critics furious at his warnings about the dangers posed by a European Union exit, and described the British economy as facing similar uncertainty to the early 1990s. “We’re taking a judgment as a committee, and we’re changing policy because of it, we’re putting out billions of pounds of liquidity ...

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