Bloomberg UBS Group AG sees bank profits under pressure as European regulations force lenders to charge for research, breaking apart a decades-old business model that’s prompted a race to provide the cheapest offering. “It will be challenging and it will be rocky” Andrea Orcel, head of UBS’s investment bank, said of the impact of the MiFID II directive in a ...

Bloomberg Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Japan’s biggest bank, has chosen Amsterdam as a base for its investment-banking business in the European Union after the UK leaves the bloc. The firm’s securities unit has decided to apply for a license to establish a subsidiary in the Dutch city, it said in a statement on Wednesday. MUFG also plans to set ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG has pledged to cap the amount of retail deposits it will use to support US activities as it seeks permission from European regulators to deploy German savers’ funds to other parts of the business, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The commitment is an attempt to reassure both the European Central Bank and German ...