Tag: Central bank

© Reuters. Pedestrians walk in front of a currency exchange shop in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina September 3, 2019. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s economy will grow 7.2% in 2021, analysts said in an Argentine central bank poll published on Friday, an improvement on their forecast last month of 6.8% growth. Inflation in…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Two women walk next to the Reserve Bank of Australia headquarters in central Sydney, Australia February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Analysts are split on whether the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will delay tapering plans at its September policy meeting next week, as a faster…

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s headquarters in Singapore June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside 2/2 By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) -Central banks in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa will conduct a cross border payments trial using different central bank digital currencies (CBDC) to assess if this…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective mask walks past the headquarters of Bank of Japan amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan, May 22, 2020.REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will ramp up efforts to promote sustainable finance such as by nurturing its green bond market…

Aegon Bank today published its first half 2021 report, which describes how the company has performed and contains interim financial information on a statutory basis. The report is available for download here. About Aegon BankAegon Bank N.V. is part of Aegon the Netherlands and mainly operates under the Knab brand. Knab is an online bank…

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People walk in a commercial street in Havana, Cuba, June 15, 2021. Picture taken on June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini 2/2 By Marc Frank and Anett Rios HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban entrepreneurs, running businesses ranging from selling dried fruit to repairing bikes and developing software, are scrambling to understand the…

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s central bank increased its short-term fund injection this week by offering the most cash on a net basis in nearly seven months to meet higher cash demand towards the month-end. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said it offered 50 billion yuan ($7.71 billion) through seven-day reverse repos into the banking…

5/5 © Reuters. Saudi women sit at David Burke’s restaurant, in The Zone restaurant complex, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia August 25, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri 2/5 By Raya Jalabi and Marwa Rashad RIYADH (Reuters) – When U.S. celebrity chef David Burke opened his second restaurant in Riyadh earlier in August, hudreds of Saudi men and women…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians wearing protective masks amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, walk on a street in Tokyo, Japan, February 2, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government maintained its economic assessment for a fourth straight month in August but offered a slightly bleaker view on the outlook than…

TORONTO, Aug. 24, 2021 /CNW/ – Scotiabank today announced a dividend on the outstanding shares of the Bank, payable October 27, 2021 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 5, 2021: Common Shares Dividend No. 609                       of         $0.90 per share; Non-Cumulative Preferred Shares Series 38, Dividend No. 20      of         $0.303125…