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The Bank of Thailand plans to upgrade the country's payment system standard to stabilise financial services and prevent digital banking glitches.

Bangkok Post

Global economy poses challenges for RBA

The head of the Reserve Bank of Australia is facing questions about rapid interest rate rises putting pressure on mortgage holders around the country.

AAP

What exactly is the review of the Reserve Bank of Australia hoping to discover?

Here are four key areas to watch ahead of the review making its recommendations to the treasurer

The Guardian - AU

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The City’s five biggest banker bonuses since 2006

Big paydays for the financial sector could be here again as the chancellor considers abolishing the bonus cap

The Guardian - UK

Lebanese Activists Promise More Bank Raids after Woman Retrieves Locked Savings

A Lebanese activist group on Thursday vowed to organize more bank heists to help people retrieve their locked savings as the country's years-long economic crisis continues to worsen. Activists from Depositors' Outcry group accompanied Sali Hafez into a Beirut bank branch on Wednesday, and she was able to retrieve some…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Analysis-Lula unlikely to repeat Brazil state bank lending binges

Over more than a decade in power, Brazilian leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his handpicked successor used state banks to bolster corporate "national champions" and major sectors their Workers Party saw as essential to the economy.

Reuters

Kwasi Kwarteng planning to scrap caps on bankers’ bonuses

Critics question chancellor’s idea of abolishing rules imposed after 2008 financial crash during cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

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SBI raises benchmark lending rate by 0.7%

SBI announcement would make loan repayment linked to Benchmark Prime Lending Rate costlier

The Hindu

'Nothing more to lose': Lebanese woman holds up bank to pay for sister's cancer treatment

Two people held up Lebanese banks on Wednesday to access their own accounts, which were frozen during the country's financial crisis. One of the suspects told local media that the gun used was actually a toy and that she needed the money for her sister's cancer treatment. Last month a…

France 24

US seeks to sidestep Taliban with $3.5 billion Afghan aid plan

The U.S. will put $3.5 billion in Afghanistan’s central bank reserves under the control of a Swiss-based oversight board to pay for limited financial services in the country while ensuring the Taliban regime doesn’t get access to the money, the U.S. Treasury Department said.

Tribune News Service

‘Nothing to lose’: Woman holds up Beirut bank to get £11,000 from savings for sister’s cancer treatment

‘I had begged the branch manager before for my money,’ says Sali Hafez

The Independent UK

Woman with Toy Gun Grabs Trapped Savings from Beirut Bank

A woman accompanied by activists and brandishing what she said was a toy pistol broke into a Beirut bank branch on Wednesday, taking $13,000 from her trapped savings. Sali Hafez told the local Al-Jadeed TV that she needed the money to fund her sister’s cancer treatment. She said she had…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Factbox-Just how bad is Lebanon's economic crisis?

Savers held up two banks in Lebanon on Wednesday to demand access to their own deposits frozen in the country's paralysed financial system, underlining desperation among citizens unable to access savings since an economic crisis began in 2019.

Reuters

Digital Bank Wio Launches in UAE

State-backed digital bank Wio announced Tuesday its official launch in the United Arab Emirates, becoming the first platform bank in the region. This step aims to transform banking operating models towards a more digital future. It comes in line with the UAE’s Digital Economy Strategy that aims to double the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Reuters

Depositors hold up two Lebanese banks to grab their own money

Two seemingly armed and desperate Lebanese depositors held up banks on Wednesday to force access to their own money, which has been blocked during a national financial meltdown.

The Independent UK

Armed woman breaks into Beirut bank, takes trapped savings

Eyewitnesses say an armed woman and a dozen activists broke into a Beirut bank branch and took more than $13,000 from her trapped savings

Liverpool Echo

Former bank building to be transformed into city centre hotel

Plans were signed off by councillors this morning

Birmingham Post

Plans for 92-bed hotel in historic city centre landmark approved

The property was constructed between 1899 and 1902

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Irish Mirror

Gardai arrest man for insider trading as 'extensive investigations' continue

This is one of several GNECB investigations which are ongoing to tackle Market Abuse in Ireland

The Guardian - UK

UK banks face stress tests on impact of energy crisis defaults

Exclusive: Move is part of Bank of England’s delayed health check of financial industry

Benzinga

Why JPMorgan Stock Could Have More Upside Potential Than The S&P 500 With Inflation Data Ahead

After a spectacular 2021 in which it gained 29%, JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) is suffering along with the S&P 500 index and is down 24% at $120.70.

Bangkok Post

Saxena's last appeal thrown out

The Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings against financier Rakesh Saxena, sentencing him to 335 years in prison in three lawsuits in connection with the Bangkok Bank of Commerce (BBC) embezzlement scandal.

Bangkok Post

BoT opens up Debt Clinic services to more borrowers

The Bank of Thailand has eased the conditions of the Debt Clinic's unsecured loan restructuring programme to let more borrowers apply for debt solutions, with additional restructuring options.

The Conversation

The Bank of Canada's own policy is the reason why inflation is so high

The Bank of Canada has raised interest rates again in an effort to quell inflation. The central bank raised its policy rate by 0.75 percentage points on Sept. 7, bringing its benchmark overnight rate to 3.25 per cent. Economists are expecting the central bank to raise it again before the…

Bangkok Post

Supreme Court upholds rulings against Rakesh Saxena

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