Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) aims to double its underwriting of green bond deals in China over the next two to three years, beefing up its business to capture the fast-growing market, the firm’s China head said in an interview. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank plans to underwrite $50 billion of green and sustainability-linked bonds, equities and loans for ...

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc., the US bank with the largest presence in Russia, will broaden its withdrawal beyond previously announced plans to dispose of consumer operations there. “We have now decided to expand the scope of that exit process to include other lines of business and continue to reduce our remaining operations and exposure,” Edward Skyler, executive vice president of ...

  Bloomberg Nigerian lenders cut the dollar spending limits on local currency cards to free more resources to fund imports after the central bank signalled it will stop foreign-exchange sales to banks. United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) stopped the use of naira card to withdraw dollars from automated teller machines outside the country or make international payments at point ...

  Bloomberg The Swedish central bank will probably have to raise interest rates earlier than its previous timeline of 2024, Riksbank Governor Stefan Ingves said, signalling a shift on removing stimulus after lagging behind most of its developed peers. “Right now inflation is far too high,” Ingves said in an interview with Swedish Radio, adding the central bank has to ...

  Bloomberg Japan’s top lenders, including the banking unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., are pulling their Japanese staff out of Russia due to safety concerns following its invasion of Ukraine. The banking units of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. are also moving Japanese staff out of the country, according to representatives for the ...

Bloomberg Australia’s central bank said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has the potential to prolong a period of elevated consumer-price growth and is clouding the economic outlook, minutes of its March 1 policy meeting showed. “The war in Ukraine and the associated increase in energy prices had created additional uncertainty,” the Reserve Bank said in the release on Tuesday. A key ...

Bloomberg Chinese stocks listed on US exchanges soared, rebounding from a steep selloff, after China vowed to keep its stock market stable and support overseas share listings. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc. both soared at least 20% in US premarket trading, while Didi Global Inc. jumped more than 40%. The American depository receipts (ADRs) are tracking a rally ...

  Bloomberg Strategists are cutting their targets for European equity markets this year, with the region’s benchmark now seen ending 2022 flat as risks from the war in Ukraine, soaring commodity prices and central bank tightening pile up. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index will be little changed for the year by the end of December, at 488 index points, according ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA) announced that in 2021 the estimated insurance expenditures reached over AED8 billion with an increase of AED499.4 million in comparison to 2020, during which the value of insurance expenditures amounted to AED7.5 billion. Speaking about the expenditure growth, Mohamed Saif Al Hameli, GPSSA’s Director-General, said, “We constantly ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation has announced that working hours for private-sector employees during Ramadan will be reduced by two hours daily. All private sector entities operating in the country are required to comply with its provisions, the ministry said in a circular, which is issued in implementation of the Federal Decree-Law No. ...