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Bloomberg Data on about 3,000 UniCredit SpA employees was put up for sale on cybercrime forums after a hacking attack. The data went on sale on April 19 and contained what the hacker said was information on UniCredit workers, including emails, phone numbers, encrypted passwords and names, Telsy, a unit of Telecom Italia SpA, wrote on its website. “The database ...

Bloomberg Chinese banks lowered borrowing costs and the government promised to sell another 1 trillion yuan ($141.3 billion) in bonds to pay for stimulus spending after the economy had its first contraction in decades due to the coronavirus outbreak. The one-year loan prime rate was set at 3.85% versus 4.05% in March, according to a statement from the People’s Bank ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and US Bancorp were sued by small businesses that accused the lenders of prioritising large loans distributed as part of the virus rescue package, shutting out the smallest firms that sought money. The four banks processed applications for the largest loan amounts because they generated the highest ...

Bloomberg India’s central bank has a number of policy options to draw upon to cushion the economic blow from Covid-19 pandemic. With a limited fiscal response so far, the Reserve Bank of India has taken the lead in providing virus relief to the economy. It’s cut interest rates by 75 basis points, injected more than $50 billion of liquidity into ...

Bloomberg Ping An Bank Co., the lending arm of China’s largest insurer, kicked off the earnings season for Chinese banks with better-than-estimated profit growth after ramping up loans to corporates even as the virus outbreak grounded the economy and led to a surge in personal defaults. Net income rose 14.8% to 8.5 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) in the first quarter, ...

Bloomberg Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd became Asia’s first airline to fall to the coronavirus after the outbreak deprived the debt-burdened company of almost all income. Administrators at Deloitte, who have taken control of the Brisbane-based carrier, aim to restructure the business and find new owners within months. More than 10 parties have expressed an interest, Deloitte said on Tuesday. Virgin ...

Bloomberg The US Treasury Department disbursed $2.9 billion to passenger airlines in the first round of payroll assistance to an industry suffering financially from a pandemic-induced shutdown. The assistance that has been handed out so far went to two “major” airlines and 54 smaller passenger carriers, the department said in a statement. More payments will be sent out on a ...

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc tumbled after the company said it expected to record a $2.1 billion loss in the first quarter as the coronavirus outbreak all but erased air-travel demand in March. The pretax loss, which will be about $1 billion on an adjusted basis, came as revenue dropped 17% from a year earlier to $8 billion, the carrier ...

Bloomberg Gap Inc is in discussions to issue new bonds backed by assets including real estate as one financing option to get it through the coronavirus pandemic, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The talks with investors and banks would be for bonds backed by inventory and certain properties including distribution centres, the people said, asking not to ...

Bloomberg Nigeria extended the closing of the West African nation’s airports for two weeks as it continues a lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The decision is subject to review when appropriate, Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika said in an emailed statement. Nigeria closed its international airports for one month on March 23, a week before President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a ...