Bloomberg Australia’s central bank (RBA) will boost its bond-buying program or cut interest rates to help revive the economy from its first recession in almost 30 years, a survey showed. Seven of 11 economists predict the Reserve Bank will ramp up quantitative easing by expanding its bond purchasing program, with UBS Group AG’s George Tharenou positing that this could begin ...

Bloomberg State Bank of India priced one of the riskiest bank capital securities at a record-low coupon, in the latest sign that investors are confident policy makers’ stimulus steps will help large issuers weather the pandemic. India’s biggest bank will sell 40 billion rupees ($545 million) of the so-called Additional Tier 1 bonds at a coupon of 7.74%. That’s the ...

Bloomberg Danske Bank will pay out as much as $16 million to its private banking clients after failing to warn them that putting their savings into low-risk investments could cost them money. “Our review shows that approximately 900 customers were not adequately informed about the expected negative net return for the affected low-risk strategies,” Bente Nielsen, head of private banking ...