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Bloomberg Boris Johnson will face a tough fight from political heavyweights if he tries to suspend parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit. Anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller and Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd both opposed the idea, adding to growing ranks across the political divide who say they are concerned about upholding Britain’s constitution. Miller, who already took the ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong demonstrators gathered for another weekend of protests with a growing list of grievances, maintaining pressure on Chief Executive Carrie Lam who was reported to have offered her resignation several times in recent weeks to her political masters in Beijing. Rally organisers said 110,000 people marched in the district of Sha Tin, a popular destination for visitors from ...

Bloomberg Chad lifted a more than a year-long ban on social media including Facebook and Twitter that the government said had been necessary for security reasons. The announcement was made by President Idriss Deby at a conference about digital technology in the capital, N’Djamena. While he said he’d instructed internet service providers to suspend the restrictions immediately, he appealed “to ...

Bloomberg A raft of global banks including HSBC Holdings Plc and Morgan Stanley were among those added to a UK task force that aims to set strategy for fighting financial crimes in the country, giving the industry more influence over its own regulation. While details were scant, the task force promised in a statement to improve the use of data ...

Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA will no longer finance private prison companies, joining a wave of banks pulling out of the business amid criticism of the conditions in US detention facilities. “This decision is the result of the bank’s internal and external consultative process that ensures that clients’ practices are aligned with the group’s policies,” BNP Paribas said in an emailed ...

Bloomberg Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco has renewed his call for a review of European rules on banking crises that limit the ability to help ailing lenders. “A legislation initiative of the new European Commission to review the BRRD directive would represent the occasion to tweak current rules, in order to make the regulation framework more flexible and appropriate ...

Bloomberg Siam Commercial Bank Pcl expects digital lending to retail customers to climb almost eight-fold this year as Thailand’s biggest lender accelerates its online drive to win business. Credit card and personal loans via the bank’s mobile phone application will rise to at least 18 billion baht ($582 million) this year from about 2.3 billion baht in 2018, said Co-President ...

Bloomberg Axis Bank Ltd has picked banks including Citigroup Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co to arrange a planned share sale of at least $1.3 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The bank has also selected Credit Suisse Group AG, BNP Paribas SA, HSBC Holdings Plc, UBS Group AG and Axis Capital Ltd for the proposed offering, ...

Bloomberg Beleaguered Indian shadow lender Dewan Housing Finance Corp (DHFL) posted its first quarterly loss in more than a decade, missed interest payments and cast doubt on its ability to continue as a going concern. DHFL posted a loss of 22.23 billion rupees ($324 million) for the quarter ended in March compared with 1.34 billion rupees in net income a ...

Bloomberg IAG SA Chief Executive Officer Willie Walsh said frustration with Airbus SE over late jetliner deliveries was a factor in his decision to place a $24 billion order for Boeing Co’s grounded 737 Max model. Cost and a desire to have a mixed narrow-body fleet weren’t the only considerations in the purchase, with IAG experiencing a 70-day delay on ...