Bloomberg The rupee’s recent gains may prove to be fleeting because of pressure from India’s persistent current-account gap and the central bank building up its foreign-exchange reserves. The currency has lagged peers from the Thai baht to the Indonesian rupiah this month, gaining only 1.4% even amid sustained dollar weakness. QuantEco Research expects the rupee to slip towards 83.5 …

  Bloomberg Top investment bankers in Asia ex-Japan at Wall Street’s biggest firms are having their worst payouts since the financial crisis more than a decade ago. On average, managing directors at banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp. (BofA) have seen their total compensation drop by 40% to 50%, with payouts for senior …

Bloomberg Pakistan’s rupee slumped to a fresh record ahead of a visit by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team for negotiations over the resumption of its $6.5 billion bailout program. The rupee fell for a sixth straight day, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It traded as low as 269 per dollar on Monday, according to the foreign-exchange desk at AKD …