Dubai / Emirates Business Al-Futtaim Watches & Jewellery announced the opening of their latest The Watch House Outlet store within the Dubai Outlet Mall. The portfolio currently includes 19 Watch House stores, 2 Al-Futtaim Watches & Jewellery stores, 4 Al-Futtaim Jewellery stores, 2 Time Zone stores and an exclusive Seiko Boutique, in addition to 2 Watch House Outlets including ...

Bloomberg Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA starts to swap 4.3 billion euros ($4.6 billion) subordinated bonds for equity on Monday, in the first crucial stage of the Italian bank’s turnaround plans. Bondholders will have five days from November 28 to sign up for the exchange, a step which will allow the bank to proceed with a share sale ...

  Bloomberg Ajay Kanwal, the head of Standard Chartered Plc’s Asean and South Asian operations, left the bank after failing to disclose past personal investments. Kanwal said some of his disclosures about investments in businesses outside the bank didn’t meet the company’s “very high standards,” according to a statement from the lender on Monday. “Though I do not own these ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan had its first loss since Haruhiko Kuroda became governor after the value of foreign currency assets fell, it wrote down bond holdings and set aside more money to cover potential future losses on its holdings of government debt. The bank posted a net loss of 200.2 billion yen ($1.8 billion) in the six months ...

  AFP The board chairman of Portugal’s troubled state-owned Caixa Geral de Depositos bank has resigned after weeks of pressure as he refused to declare his assets, the government announced late Sunday. Portugal’s Socialist government said it “regretted” Antonio Domingues’ decision, adding he would not leave his post until the end of December. A finance ministry statement said the government ...

  Bloomberg Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp.’s purchase of Barclays Plc’s wealth-management units in Singapore and Hong Kong was priced at $227.5 million, 29 percent below an initial estimate, after the amount of assets being transferred fell. The final price is based on 1.75 percent of the $13 billion of Barclays assets transferred to Bank of Singapore, OCBC’s private-banking arm, the Singaporean ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of England added a new, higher bar to its third round of public stress tests. Some of the UK’s biggest banks will scrape through; others may not clear it. The seven major British lenders tested will probably beat the lowest measures of strength required to pass the annual BOE health check when it is released Wednesday, ...

  Bloomberg OPEC is embarking on a last-ditch diplomatic push to reach a production cut, with ministers flying to Russia for talks, as Saudi Arabia for the first time suggested the oil-club doesn’t necessarily need to curb output. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet on Wednesday in Vienna to try finalize the terms of its first production decrease ...

  Bloomberg After two tough years of falling oil prices and company valuations, investors in the world’s biggest energy producers have some cause for hope as crude prices continue their recovery from a 12-year low. They will be looking to OPEC not to dash it. Oil companies around the world have together added $490 billion to their market value this ...

  Bloomberg Oil rose as Iraq pledged to cooperate with OPEC to reach an agreement this week that’s acceptable to all members. Futures rose as much as 2.7 percent in New York, reversing an earlier decline. Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said Monday he’s “ optimistic” a deal will be reached at OPEC’s summit in Vienna on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia ...