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Vietnam lender facing bank run now ‘stable,’ says official

  Bloomberg The operations of Saigon Commercial Bank, which faced days of panicked customers pulling out their savings, are ‘stable’ and some clients are now returning to deposit money, according to Vo Minh Tuan, head of the central bank’s Ho Chi Minh City branch. “SCB’s situation has become more stable now as the number of people coming in to withdraw ...

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Credit Suisse’s wild ride starts to spook some clients

  Bloomberg On the face of it, it was almost a good week for Credit Suisse Group AG, the stock recording its biggest gain in two years. But that glosses over a rollercoaster ride that saw the cost to insure its debt against default surge to a record, amid speculation about how the bank might finance its long-awaited restructuring. The ...

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Carlyle-backed Yes Bank on stressed assets hunt

  Bloomberg Yes Bank Ltd., the Indian bank that almost collapsed two years ago from bad loans, is now on a hunt to buy stressed assets from other lenders. A new partnership with US private-equity firm JC Flowers & Co. LLC allows it to buy soured loans of other banks, Prashant Kumar, chief executive officer of the Mumbai-based lender, said ...

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