 | | | | Lebanon's banking association on Monday rejected a draft government plan for tackling the country's financial crisis that proposes a haircut and partial bank bail-in on savers, saying it would cause a long loss of confidence in the financial sector. | | | | | | Bank of America said on Monday its customers made $335 billion in total payments in January, a 17% increase over January 2021. | | | | | | Activist investment firm Ortelius Advisors wants to take control of petrochemical products company Trecora Resources' board and has nominated six directors, according to a letter seen by Reuters. | | | | | | Egypt plans to sign a funding programme for 2022 with the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation(ITFC) this month, Egypt's Ministry of Planning and Economic Development said on Monday. | | | | | | China's central bank has imposed a 22.37 million yuan ($3.52 million) fine on MYBank, the online bank backed by China's Ant Group, for violations including breaching rules on credit scoring management and transacting with unidentified clients. | | | | | | Taiwan's central bank has allowed Deutsche Bank to start trading Taiwan dollar deliverable and non-deliverable forwards again, three sources told Reuters, after it suspended them as part of a crackdown on speculation last February. | | | | | | Britain's LV= said on Monday its chairman Alan Cook would step down after members of the mutual life insurer voted in December to reject a takeover approach by private equity giant Bain Capital. | | | | | | Credit Suisse faced charges in a Swiss court on Monday of allowing an alleged Bulgarian cocaine trafficking gang to launder millions of euros, some of it stuffed into suitcases. | | | | | | Klaas Knot, the Dutch Central Bank President and a member of the European Central Bank's governing council, said on Sunday he expects the ECB to raise interest rates in the fourth quarter of this year. | | | | | | Exchange operator Cboe Global Markets said on Friday its fourth-quarter profit surged 90%, topping Wall Street estimates on higher transaction volumes, notably in options, and lower-than-expected expenses. | | | | | |
