Bloomberg The Philippine central bank will begin selling its own securities next week, a new instrument that it said will become its main tool to control liquidity in the financial system. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will offer 20 billion pesos ($411 million) of 28-day bills on September 18, Governor Benjamin Diokno said on Twitter on Wednesday. “The BSP securities, …

Bloomberg India’s anti-money laundering agency fined Standard Chartered Plc $13.6 million for breaking foreign exchange rules when it worked on the takeover of a local bank, marking one of the country’s biggest penalties imposed on an overseas lender. An eight-year probe found that Standard Chartered violated the so-called foreign exchange management act — which monitors offshore financial transactions — when …

Bloomberg Chinese bank stocks: never this cheap, rarely so unloved. Weakened by the government’s call to sacrifice profitability, stung by ultra-low interest rates and the threat of souring loans, the country’s Hong Kong-listed banks have seen their market value contract by $194 billion in 2020 as of Wednesday. Their share of the MSCI China Index has shrunk to a measly …