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Bloomberg The euro could revisit its year-to-date low as persistent political risks may lead Mario Draghi to refrain this week from painting a rosier picture for the bloc’s economy. Market dynamics have shifted only slightly since the European Central Bank’s last meeting, yet not in a supportive way for the common currency. Data may be suggesting the forecasts for growth ...

Bloomberg This year’s selloff in emerging-market assets has created a whole lot of value, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The firm’s asset-management arm says it’s time to buy as months of underperformance for developing-nation securities relative to their US peers won’t last much longer. The divergence was an anomaly, spurred in part by sanctions on Turkey and Russia as ...

Bloomberg Two events this month may have finally brought the curtain down on secrecy rules that were the key to Geneva and Zurich’s private banking heyday, when foreign clients could come armed with suitcases of cash and their bankers would look other way. Swiss tax authorities announced they’d shared details on 2 million accounts with other countries for first time ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank’s prospects for gradually weaning the economy off monetary support could yet be tested by a big unknown its officials don’t mention much: a disorderly Brexit. Policy makers have given limited prominence to that risk despite divorce talks between the UK and European Union repeatedly stalling before the country’s departure in less than six months. In ...

Bloomberg UK banks are prepared to withstand more than just Brexit, according to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney. Stress tests conducted by the central bank show Britain’s financial system would still have more than adequate capital to maintain lending in the face of multiple headwinds, Carney said in a speech in New York. The bank has been “preparing for ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and a venture founded by one of its former partners, billionaire Mike Novogratz, are investing in cryptocurrency custodian BitGo Holdings Inc., as the bank’s deep-pocketed clients keep asking about secure ways to hold those assets. Combined, Goldman Sachs and Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Ventures contributed about $15 million to BitGo’s Series B fundraising, which brought in ...

Bloomberg The most stubborn dove in eastern Europe may finally be ready to follow the procession of central bankers lifting interest rates across emerging markets, according to Amundi Asset Management’s Hungarian unit. Rate setters in Budapest may track the European Central Bank’s expected move in the second half of next year, but a drop in global risk appetite or an ...

Bloomberg The Bank of Korea left its key interest rate unchanged as an escalating US-China trade war and meager job growth threaten to sap momentum in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. Eleven of 18 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg forecast the central bank to keep the seven-day repurchase rate at 1.5 percent. The rest predicted a hike to 1.75 percent. When Governor Lee ...

Bloomberg Nordea Bank Abp, Scandinavia’s biggest lender, now risks being dragged into a money laundering scandal that has rocked the Nordic and Baltic region. Bill Browder, the UK-based investor tracking dirty money flows out of Russia, has filed complaints with Nordic prosecutors alleging he can pinpoint 365 Nordea accounts in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway that received $175 million from ...

Bloomberg Danske Bank A/S’s top pick for a new chief executive officer was rejected by the Nordic nation’s financial regulator, adding to turmoil at the lender that is mired in a money laundering scandal. The Copenhagen-based bank on Wednesday withdrew its application to the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority to name 40-year-old Jacob Aarup-Andersen, the head of its wealth management, as ...