The UK’s chaotic mini-budget prompted HSBC Holdings Plc to increase its loan loss provision by $200 million in the third quarter, another sign of the economic turmoil created by the aborted fiscal statement. The lender took a $279 million charge against its UK unit in the period, according to an analyst presentation on Tuesday. That included “$200 million of additional …

Workers at Japanese banks aren’t having to rush back to the office, unlike their counterparts on Wall Street, even as the country gradually returns to normal life after the pandemic. The nation’s three largest lenders — Mitsubishi UFJ Financial group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial group and Mizuho Financial group  — said they are allowing more flexibility, eschewing a minimum number of …

Rishi Sunak might be a safe pair of hands for the UK economy, but investors don’t expect his premiership to give a significant boost to country’s beaten-down equities. While the ex-Goldman Sachs banker is set to bring an end to the kind of extreme volatility that characterised Liz Truss’s brief tenure in Downing Street, Sunak’s more prudent fiscal approach is …