The Pak Banker - 2020-08-26

• Bank of Canada seeks pub­lic in­put on 2pc in­fla­tion tar­get
• Pak­istan's for­eign loans jump to $1.8b in July
• Banks dis­bursed Rs1.2tr to agri sec­tor in FY20
• China banks hire tens of thou­sands in res­cue mis­sion
• IS­LAM­ABAD
• Khush­hali Bank launches tree plan­ta­tion drive
• Op­po­si­tion's joint plan of ac­tion to be an­nounced soon: She­hbaz Sharif
• Co-op Bank to cut 350 jobs
• Credit Suisse to shut 37 bank branches
• Bank of Nova Sco­tia 3Q profit down
• RBI sees de­mand re­cov­ery tak­ing more time
• Non-dis­crim­i­na­tory ac­count­abil­ity is im­per­a­tive: Mur­taza Wa­hab
• 3 dead, roads sub­merged as mon­soon rains lash Karachi
• PM can ap­point any­one as ad­viser: IHC rules
• IS­LAM­ABAD
• Fawad de­fends PTI so­cial me­dia team, con­demns PPP for 'cam­paign­ing' against it
• Sindh ap­points Dr So­hail Ra­jput new Karachi Com­mis­sioner
• DG re­views res­cue ar­range­ments dur­ing Muhar­ram
• PESHAWAR
• Eh­saas Un­der­grad­u­ate Schol­ar­ship Dis­tri­bu­tion Pro­gram in PU
• Khur­sheed's in­dict­ment de­ferred again
• Sec­re­tary Live­stock Saqib Za­far vis­its UVAS
• TO­DAY’S COL­UMNS
• Nas­daq files with SEC for IPO al­ter­na­tive to raise funds
• US, China com­mit to phase 1 trade deal in phone call
• Euro up on Ger­man IFO, dol­lar slips on suc­cess­ful US-China phone call
• Pan­demic may fire up Ja­pan's in­fla­tion: economist
• GAZA
• Nasser lav­ishes praise on Azhar for men­tal tough­ness
• Bolt tests pos­i­tive for COVID days af­ter 34th birth­day
• Scores ar­rested as PSG fans riot af­ter de­feat
• Wall Street higher af­ter US-China trade deal as­sur­ance
• UK re­tail­ers cut jobs by most since 2009: CBI
• The JKT dilemma
• A tale of mis­lead­ing names
• Strange eco­nomics
• Power re­form
• 'P
• 'The Bea­tles' at cen­ter of a tus­sle
• Trade and resource con­ser­va­tion
• Re­set for US-China re­la­tions
• Iran's ne­glect of its back­fires
• Trump says he will add $1b to food for fam­i­lies pro­gram
• What hap­pens if Ja­pan's Abe is in­ca­pac­i­tated, or re­signs?
• BALKH PROV­INCE
• Rus­sian firms am­pli­fy­ing QAnon con­spir­a­cies
• Gaza in lock­down to try to con­tain its first COVID-19 out­break
• Talks with IAEA chief in Tehran were con­struc­tive: Iran
• Ro­hingya hold 'silent protest' on an­niver­sary of ex­o­dus to Bangladesh
• TOKYO
• Ger­many to ex­tend in­sol­vency mora­to­rium for virus-hit com­pa­nies
• Be­larus op­po­si­tion fig­ures in court
• Alibaba's Ant Group files for block buster HK, Shang­hai dual list­ing
• Gas and nu­clear in­dus­tries fight to the end for 'green' EU in­vest­ment la­bel
• Judge blocks Ap­ple move to ham­per Epic's Un­real En­gine
• Musk hints of bat­tery ca­pac­ity jump ahead of in­dus­try event
• Sterling rises, shrugs off un­ex­pected weaker Au­gust sales data
• Avianca share­holder Efro­movich dis­misses Brazil scam al­le­ga­tions
• Iran says black boxes show mis­siles hit 25 sec­onds apart
• Bio­met­ric bank­ing ser­vices in­tro­duced for Pak ex­pats
• Pak­istan is Asia's best per­form­ing stock mar­ket
• Chi­nese en­trepreneur­s asked to es­tab­lish of­fices in Pak­istan
• Turkey's record gold haul may get bought by cen­tral bank
• Bank of Korea to keep in­ter­est rates steady

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