New World Bank President Ajay Banga asked the lender's 16,000 staff on Friday to "redouble" their development and climate efforts as he seeks to accelerate the bank's evolution to address the world's most pressing problems. On his first day on the job, the former CEO of Mastercard (MA.N) he told employees in a memo seen by Reuters that he would seek to hire each of them to work on his vision "to create a world without poverty on a livable environment." planet." (David Lawder)