Bloomberg Europe’s dark pools are filling up with equities again as some trading bans imposed under the MiFID II rules get lifted. About 8 percent of all equities trading took place on private stock markets known as dark venues in the past month, after regulators ended suspensions on nearly half of the previously affected stocks, according to a Bloomberg calculation ...

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 ...