Finance Chronicle

The Czech Republic mandated Barclays Capital, Ceska Sporitelna AS and Deutsche Bank AG to arrange a planned sale of bonds in euros, the Finance Ministry said.

NOVATO — Aircraft and engine lessor Willis Lease Finance Corp.

Romanian Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu said he will be replaced as part of a “political” decision, he said in a phone interview today after meeting with Prime Minister Emil Boc.

MANAMA: The Islamic finance sector is set to become a $2 trillion industry in the next three to five years from its current $1trn mark in spite of the financial slowdown.

Rabobank today announced that Tony Muoser will join its Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Finance – Americas group, as a Managing Director based in New York.

* Cigna: departure not caused by financial, ethics dispute

Federal Election Commission ruling from the Supreme Court, which allowed corporations and unions to spend freely on campaign advertisements, there has been a flurry of challenges to other campaign finance laws in the courts. …

Goldman Sachs’s Lloyd C. Blankfein takes the biggest tumble in the magazine’s “New Establishent” rankings as finance remains an unpopular sector among the populace.

SINGAPORE – Tight supply due to lower Indian exports and rising demand from top consumer China could push iron ore prices higher in 2011 after an expected decline in the fourth quarter of this year.

LONDON – Many small European funds of hedge funds could close or be forced into a merger or sale as falling asset bases hit a sector whose reputation is already badly damaged in the eyes of investors and hedge funds alike.