Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc. joined rivals in asking the vast majority of employees in England to work from home following government rules to stop a surge in coronavirus infections. The Wall Street banks told staff in separate memos Tuesday that most workers will be required to work from home until further notice from Thursday, when a …

Bloomberg Credit Agricole SA got a boost from clients selling bonds and set aside less money for expected bad loans, joining peers in taking a benign view of the pandemic as Europe enters a second phase of lockdowns. Revenue from capital markets, the biggest driver of Credit Agricole’s investment bank, surged 25% in the third quarter to beat analysts’ highest …

Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA got a bigger-than-expected boost from trading and painted a relatively optimistic picture of the pandemic’s impact on its loan book, as it joined European peers in signalling an eventual return to dividend payments. Third-quarter revenue from trading fixed income, currencies and commodities surged 36% to 1.25 billion euros ($1.45 billion), the Paris-based bank reported, surpassing the …