Bloomberg MYbank, the two-year-old Chinese online lender that already has 3.5 million small-business customers, plans to push deeper into a segment that’s long been shunned by the country’s largest banks. MYbank wants to capitalize on its links to billionaire Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. by offering loans to the more than 10 million smaller merchants that use the company’s …

Bloomberg As global central banks turn increasingly hawkish, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda may have to start discussing an exit from its monetary stimulus program by the end of the year, according to Principal Global Investors (PGI), which manages more than $424 billion. Kuroda stood out from other central bankers at the ECB Forum in Portugal last …

Bloomberg A decade has passed since the start of the financial crisis, but when it comes to handling struggling banks, the European Union still hasn’t moved on. Italy’s taxpayer-funded wind-down of Banca Popolare di Vicenza SpA and Veneto Banca SpA highlighted the patchwork of EU and national laws and guidelines that govern the funneling of public money to banks, despite …