November, 2018

• 21 November

  Separating Renault-Nissan twins would be bloody

  

  If you depose a king, you’d best have a plan for what to do in the aftermath. That’s the challenge confronting Nissan Motor Co. CEO Hiroto Saikawa after the remarkable palace coup in which Chairman Carlos Ghosn was dethroned after almost two decades bestriding the global auto industry. The man who’s widely seen as indispensable to the collective functioning of ...

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• 21 November

  GE’s credit line to pose a $41bn problem for banks

  

  Bloomberg When it comes to US banks’ lending risk, it doesn’t get much bigger than General Electric Co. The five biggest Wall Street firms have committed to lending at least $3.5 billion each to the industrial giant facing concerns about the sustainability of its debt. GE has almost $41 billion in credit lines it can draw from, according to its ...

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• 21 November

  Deutsche Bank slumps on worry over role in Danske laundering

  

  Bloomberg Investors in Deutsche Bank AG have added the lender’s role in Danske Bank’s money laundering scandal to their growing list of worries. A management shakeup, weak earnings and political turmoil saw Deutsche Bank shares hit multiple lows this year. Now, concerns about its involvement in Europe’s biggest money-laundering scandal are weighing on the stock after the key whistle-blower pointed ...

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• 21 November

  Big US banks set to get $5bn windfall

  

  Bloomberg Big US banks that are already smashing profit records will soon get a $5 billion windfall, courtesy of the federal government. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp announced that lenders will no longer have to pay quarterly surcharges that cover some of the costs of insuring their customers’ deposits. Megabanks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of America ...

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• 21 November

  Carney to keep Brexit commentary rolling

  Bloomberg Mark Carney has at least four more opportunities before the end of the year to talk about Brexit, with his words potentially taking on greater weight as the split gets closer. The political process is grinding towards a parliamentary vote in coming weeks — date yet to be decided — on the divorce deal with the European Union, and ...

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• 21 November

  India in spotlight as global central banks battle populists

  

  Bloomberg It’s open season on central bank chiefs. In the US, President Donald Trump has complained that the Federal Reserve has gone “loco” because its interest rate hikes threaten to snuff out his deficit-swelling, tax cut stimulus. Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio accused his compatriot Mario Draghi of “poisoning the atmosphere” after the European Central Bank president warned ...

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• 20 November

  UAE-Jordan $100mn pact to support entrepreneurship

  

  Amman / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and King Abdullah II of Jordan, on Tuesday attended the signing of a $100 million agreement to finance micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Hashemite Kingdom. The agreement, signed at Al Husseiniya Palace ...

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• 20 November

  Sawab Centre, OIC announce cooperation

  

  DUBAI WAM The Sawab Centre, a bilateral Emirati-American initiative to counter online extremist propaganda and promote positive alternatives, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) announced a new cooperative agreement to mutually enrich each organisation’s capabilities and to share information and best practices. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) forma-lises the mutual interaction and strengthens existing relationship between Sawab Centre and ...

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• 20 November

  Trump plans tech export curbs in swipe at China

  

  Bloomberg The Trump administration is considering tighter curbs on technology exports, a step that Deutsche Bank AG says would have a “profound and long lasting adverse impact” on relations between the US and China. A request for public comment, published on the US government’s Federal Register, asks if a list of new technologies that have national security applications — from ...

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• 20 November

  Letters of guarantee amount to AED12.7bn

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The letters of guarantee issued by banks and other business entities in the UAE amounted to AED12.7 billion during the first nine months of 2018, a growth of 15 percent as compared to the end of 2017, according to the Central Bank of the UAE. In September, the value of the letters of guarantee provided by ...

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