Bloomberg Metro Bank Plc fell the most since going public after applying an incorrectly low risk weighting to parts of its loan book, with the British lender’s chief saying he doesn’t know how long the mortgages in question had been wrongly classified. The shares plunged as much as 39 percent and the bank’s bonds also fell on concern it will …

Bloomberg Don’t be fooled by the Bank of England’s (BOE) recent unanimity — the debate will become more heated. While Brexit has split Britain down the middle, policy makers have voted 9-0 on interest rates for the past four meetings and generally stayed quiet on the outlook as the UK’s impeding divorce from the European Union becomes more fraught. Governor …

Bloomberg It may take a few years for blockchain’s impact to be felt meaningfully, but it will provide some advancements in certain areas even as cryptocurrencies falter, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. “Blockchain isn’t going to reinvent the global payment system, but it will provide marginal improvements,” JPMorgan’s chair of global research, Joyce Chang, said in an interview. “The …