Bloomberg Zhou Xiaochuan is breaking stride with Janet Yellen. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) Governor refrained from following the Federal Reserve in raising borrowing costs, a switch from March when the central bank increased money-market costs hours after its US counterpart tightened. The shift suggests Zhou sees more autonomy to address domestic challenges, with the yuan holding stable and ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse Group AG are “on track” to meet Switzerland’s tougher capital rules for the two systemically important banks after improving their capacity to absorb losses, Swiss National Bank (SNB) said. UBS and Credit Suisse already fully comply with going-concern requirements in terms of risk-weighted assets but still have to improve their loss-absorbing capacity as ...

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc’s investment bank chief Samir Assaf said a hard Brexit is now unlikely after the UK election, and that could mean more jobs staying in London. A softer Brexit would be “very good news for us, because it will be less hassle and we would be able to do much more things from London,” Assaf said at ...