Bloomberg A former Societe Generale SA managing director was charged in a French insider-trading case linked to Air Liquide SA’s $13.2 billion takeover of Stephane Fima, a managing director who specialized in acquisition financing, was charged by an investigative judge following raids last year at the bank’s headquarters in the La Defense business district in western Paris. The criminal charges …

Bloomberg ABN Amro Group NV said it fired some mortgage advisers and cut performance-related pay after it found 114 staff copied client signatures, closing a probe the Dutch bank started more than six months ago. The government-owned lender terminated as many as 10 staff out of more than 850 advisers, a spokesman for the Amsterdam-based bank said. The bank said …

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. is removing a layer of management, consolidating its regional and area president roles into a new one called region bank president, according to an internal memo. The change will result in the elimination of 70 jobs, Bridget Braxton, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman, said in a telephone interview. Each region bank president will supervise six to …