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UBS Group AG and two major Chinese lenders have been drawn into one of Singapore’s largest money laundering cases, as a police affidavit showed that an alleged fugitive involved had stashed millions at the banks.

Chinese banks and businesses want to step up their use of digital yuan-powered smart contracts, as the financial and industrial sectors eye CBDC progress.

syndicated loan as the kingdom seeks to finance its investment plans, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The kingdom's Ministry of Finance has appointed Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC) as coordinator and bookrunner for the long-term senior unsecured loan, the report said citing people familiar with the matter. The 10-year loan is offering an interest rate of 100 basis points over the Secured Overnight Financing Rate — the usual reference rate when borrowing in dollars, the report added. ICBC has invited other banks to participate in the loan and has asked interested parties to respond before mid-October, Bloomberg reported. Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Finance and ICBC did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Personally spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia has embarked on an ambitious economic plan. known as Vision 2030 to diversify into sectors such as tourism, develop massive infrastructure projects, and grow the financial and private sectors. Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, has been tasked with delivering Vision 2030 targets, which requires billions in investment.

More Chinese companies are using the digital yuan to pay their workers, as Beijing looks to spur the adoption of its CBDC.

personal loans to help stimulate the flagging economy. The People’s Bank of China has cut a key lending rate twice in the past year and commercial banks have trimmed loan benchmarks that are used to price mortgages and other debt. Those moves have come at a significant cost to lenders.

Chinese firms and commercial banks are working on new digital yuan supply chain financing solutions, with a new CBDC smart contract solution set to launch.

By Jamie McGeever

Reliance Industries (RIL) and IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), sitting on the third position with a market cap of ₹12.43 lakh crore.  The m-cap of RIL is over ₹18.85 lakh crore, while that of TCS is around ₹12.94 lakh crore. With a market value of over $151 billion, HDFC Bank is now the world’s seventh largest lender.

GST Council concluded on Tuesday with the goods and services tax rate trimmed down to 5% in four items. Also, the council exempted GST on several imported pharma products. However, one of the biggest highlights was the 28% tax rate imposed on the full value of online gaming which is likely a setback for Indian players.

HDFC Bank, rallied over 3% to Rs 2,911 in Monday's early trade on BSE even as traders saw arbitrage opportunities ahead of the announcement of the delisting date. With investors raising a toast to the mega-merger deal that would lead to the creation of the world's fourth largest bank by market value behind only JP Morgan, ICBC of China and Bank of America, HDFC Bank shares also rallied over 2% to Rs 1,738. «The merger of HDFC Bank and HDFC Ltd will create a behemoth (FY24 loans at Rs 25 tn, 15.7% market share) that can deliver strong growth (~17% loan CAGR) and profitability (~2% RoA).

HDFC and HDFC Bank Friday approved the merger between the two institutions, creating the world's fourth-biggest bank by market value behind bulge-bracket Wall Street lender JPMorgan, China's ICBC and Bank of America. The merger takes effect Saturday.

HDFC Bank will be the fourth most valuable bank in the world in terms of market capitalisation after the merger with mortgage lender HDFC. According to Bloomberg data, the merged entity will have a market capitalisation of $172 billion, the most after JPMorgan Chase, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Bank of America.

HDFC Bank on Friday, approved the merger between the two institutions effective from today (July 1) creating the world's fourth biggest bank by market value behind J P Morgan, ICBC and Bank of America. All share and warrant holders of HDFC as of July 13 would be eligible for HDFC Bank shares. July 12 has been set as the date for the transfer of non-convertible debentures (NCDs) of HDFC in the name of HDFC Bank.

Student athletes from around the world will get the chance to use China’s digital yuan in July, with the CBDC put to use at the Summer World University Games in Chengdu.