World Bank boosts funds for Syria refugees, Africa
Reuters
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Bank plans substantial new funds to help Jordan cope with the influx of refugees from the civil war in Syria, and hopes new funds for central Africa will cement a peace deal there, the bank's President Jim Yong Kim said on ...
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Japan's Central Bank Says Economy Picking Up
ABC News
The Bank of Japan ended a policy meeting on Wednesday with no change to its strategy of doubling the monetary base for the sake of reaching a 2 percent inflation target and jolting the economy out of two decades of stagnation. That outcome was expected.

Japan stocks hold gains after central-bank meet
MarketWatch
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) " Japanese stocks stayed on course for a fresh multiyear high Wednesday after the country's central bank raised its economic outlook, even as it left other elements of its monetary policy unchanged. Most other regional markets ...

Pritzker's Superior Bank Subprime Losses Blemish Resume
Bloomberg
The document chronicles the 2001 failure of a suburban Chicago bank after Pritzker and her family expanded subprime lending there and did pioneering work with the kind of mortgage-backed securitization that would eventually spread and help spark the ...

DBS Gets Final OK to Buy Stake in Indonesian Bank
Wall Street Journal
Bank Indonesia Governor Darmin Nasution said DBS, a Singapore bank, will be permitted to acquire a 40% stake in Danamon but that it would be allowed to buy the bank in its entirety only if Singapore showed "reciprocity" by allowing Indonesia's banks to ...
Indonesia approves DBS acquisition of 40% of Bank Danamon Financial Times
Bank Indonesia Allows DBS to Buy 40% of Danamon Fox Business
UPDATE 1-Indonesia's Bank Danamon shares tumble 5 pct after DBS approval Reuters
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Japan Stock Futures Climb Before Central Bank Meeting Concludes
Bloomberg
Futures on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index were little changed. The gauge climbed 0.2 percent yesterday, to a record, after Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said the central bank should continue its bond buying to boost ...

Brazil's Real Weakens as Central Bank Refrains From Intervening
Bloomberg
Brazil's central bank raised the target lending rate last month by a quarter-percentage point to 7.50 percent to contain inflation after policy makers lowered borrowing costs by 5.25 percentage points in cuts that began in August 2011 to support ...
Brazil's Tombini: Central Bank Will Act in 'Timely Manner' on Key Rates Wall Street Journal

Ocean Bank names Juan del Busto to its board
MiamiHerald.com
Ocean Bank said Tuesday that Juan del Busto, the former regional executive of The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Miami branch and current chairman of Del Busto Capital Partners, has joined Ocean Bank's board of directors. Del Busto joined the Miami ...

Bank of Ireland reverses mortgage rate increase for 1200 borrowers
The Guardian
Bank of Ireland said the change, which affected both residential and buy-to-let customers, was permitted by a specific clause in these mortgage contracts. However, after reviewing complaints from customers it has reversed the decision to increase rates ...
Bank of Ireland frees 1200 mortgage holders from rate rise Telegraph.co.uk
Bank of Ireland in partial retreat on mortgage rise Financial Times
Billionaire investor Ross praises Bank of Ireland Belfast Telegraph
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Ex-Deutsche Bank Commodity Head Joined by Team at TrailStone
Bloomberg
Partners in TrailStone include Bill Gebhardt, Deutsche bank's former head of European power and gas, Troy Martin, former chief operating officer for commodities, Raymond Key, head of metals trading, and John Redpath, head of oil and agriculture trading ...