Bloomberg Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele said most of the country’s banks have obeyed a directive to raise loan-to-deposit ratio to 60 percent and those that fail to do so will face penalties by October 1. “Compliance level has been excellent,” Emefiele said in an interview with Bloomberg TV in London. “Not all the banks have complied, naturally. …

Bloomberg Italy has proposed veteran central banker Fabio Panetta as its candidate to replace Benoit Coeure as one of the European Central Bank’s top policy makers, according to a government official familiar with the matter. The Italian finance ministry sent Panetta’s candidacy to Mario Centeno, who leads the group of euro-area finance chiefs that will decide who joins the ECB’s …

Bloomberg Banks and other financial firms need to get creative to bring sustainable investments into the mainstream, said David Solomon, Goldman Sachs’s CEO. Conversations with clients about climate exposure have “amped up materially” over the last two years, but sustainable investments like green bonds are still “relatively niche,” Solomon said at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York. Such …