Bloomberg European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned of potential legal steps after Slovenian police raided the country’s central bank in connection with a probe into a 2013 bank bailout. Nova Ljubljanska Banka dd and other state-owned lenders pushed Slovenia to the brink of an international bailout in 2013 before the government and the central bank spent 3.2 billion ...

  Bloomberg For US banks, Brexit couldn’t have come at a worse time, raising funding costs just as changes to the US$2.7 trillion money-fund industry threaten to sap demand for the lenders’ short-term debt. In the derivatives market, measures of banks’ funding stress are climbing on speculation the fallout from last month’s UK referendum will weaken global economic growth and ...

  BLOOMBERG Caixa Economica Federal, Brazil’s second-largest bank, is returning to the asset-backed security market after two years to take advantage of investors’ rising appetite for risk. Caixa plans to raise as much as 4 billion reais (US$1.2billion) of such securities for the FIDC fund it manages, the Brasilia-based company said in a regulatory filing last month. Proceeds will be ...