Bloomberg Some of Europe’s biggest fund managers are set for a face-off on how best to trade the UK’s first potential interest-rate increase in a decade. Allianz Global Investors GmBH is looking to sell the pound into a rally, betting the Bank of England won’t signal further policy tightening given lingering economic and political risks. Fidelity International has a similar ...

Bloomberg Reforming the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s monetary policy mandate could potentially result in lower interest rates, the new finance minister said. Requiring the central bank to target full employment as well as price stability when making rate decisions will ensure its objectives are more aligned with the well-being of New Zealanders, Grant Robertson said in a television interview ...

Bloomberg For thousands of brokers, traders and money managers based in the US, time is running out. A shock wave is about to emanate from Brussels, the capital of the 28-nation European Union. That may as well be the dark side of the moon for some toiling away at financial firms in the US A sweeping set of financial regulations ...