October, 2022

• 10 October

  Partnerships don’t always put customer first, says American

  Bloomberg American Airlines group Inc’s top commercial officer said the airline hadn’t focused on customers in creating its earlier corporate partnerships, validating the suspicions of many disgruntled air travellers. Testifying with unusual candour during Justice Department’s antitrust trial seeking to block American’s partnership with JetBlue, American’s chief commercial officer, Vasu Raja, said customers were an afterthought compared to business and ...

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• 10 October

  US to screen air travellers for Ebola

    Bloomberg The US will begin redirecting travellers from Uganda to five airports to screen for Ebola, as the East African country grapples with an outbreak of a strain of virus for which there is no approved vaccine. The notice is not a travel ban or suspension on those coming from Uganda, but is being put in place out of ...

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• 10 October

  Russia races to reopen Crimea bridge damaged in fiery blast

  

    Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin’s flagship bridge to Crimea was severely damaged in a blast that hit a fuel train and caused the partial collapse of the only road link running from the Russian mainland to the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014. Local authorities raced on Saturday to reopen one lane of the Kerch Strait Bridge to ...

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• 10 October

  South Korea to boost US, Japan defense ties after Kim’s missiles

  

  Bloomberg South Korea said its military will strengthen security cooperation with the US and Japan, including the deployment of “US strategic assets,” after Kim Jong Un’s North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles Sunday. The provocations, in violation of United Nations Security Council’s resolutions, will strengthen sanctions against North Korea, worsen public welfare and make the regime “very unstable,” South ...

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• 10 October

  Truss faces new perils as restless MPs return to Westminster

  

  Bloomberg The return of Parliament this week is fraught with danger for UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. In her first month in office, the 47-year-old premier managed to roil the financial markets, alienate a swath of her lawmakers and sink the Conservative Party in the polls with the biggest set of unfunded tax cuts in half a century. Since the ...

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• 9 October

  India plans phased central bank digital rupee launch

  

    Bloomberg India’s central bank is working towards a phased introduction of a digital currency and will put forth a final design after it has conducted large scale pilot projects. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is exploring the option of implementation of an account-based central bank digital currency or CBDC for the wholesale segment and token-based currency for the retail ...

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• 9 October

  UBS dropped from $3.4bn Texas muni deal in latest blow

  

  Bloomberg UBS Group AG’s underwriting arm has been left out of the group that is poised to handle the biggest-ever municipal-bond transaction from Texas after the state listed the bank as one of the firms it considers to “boycott” the fossil-fuel industry. Board members of the issuer, the Texas Natural Gas Securitisation Finance Corp., announced a newly configured underwriting syndicate ...

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• 9 October

  ECB steps up pressure on some banks to exercise bonus caution

  

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) is ratcheting up pressure on some banks to keep 2022 bonuses in check amid fears about the darkening economic outlook, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The euro area’s top banking supervisor has told individual lenders recently that it expects restraint in variable pay and dividends as it’s concerned the energy crunch ...

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• 9 October

  ‘Philippine central bank very active in FX market’

  

    Bloomberg The Philippine central bank has been “very active” in the foreign exchange market to curb excessive volatility and stem the peso’s depreciation, Governor Felipe Medalla said. The monetary authority, which has raised the policy rate by a total of 2.25 percentage points, makes its decisions in relation to inflation, Medalla told reporters in Manila. It considers the exchange ...

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• 9 October

  India to sell majority stake in IDBI Bank

    Bloomberg India has invited bids to sell 60.72% in state-backed IDBI Bank Ltd, according to an expression of interest floated by the finance ministry, as it seeks to ramp up its privatisation drive. The federal government and the state-owned Life Insurance Corp. of India together own about 95% in the lender. The government will sell 30.48% of its stake ...

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