Bloomberg Greece is weighing a plan to help banks speed up their bad-loan disposals, possibly including a government guarantee, in a bid to restore confidence in the battered sector, people familiar with the matter said. While the details are still being worked out, the proposal would see lenders unload some bad loans into special purpose vehicles, taking them off banks’ …

Bloomberg After lenders in Germany have already slashed about 188,000 jobs since the year 2000, many employees are now increasingly seeing digitalisation as the next big threat to employment. In the country’s private banking industry alone, around 40 percent of employees believe that digitalisation will worsen long-term job security over the next two years, according to a study by the …

Bloomberg There’s a powerful person in Washington besides the president who can barely contain his enthusiasm for the US economy. It’s the man Donald Trump appointed to head the Federal Reserve and whom he’s attacked for raising interest rates: Jerome Powell. In what Fed watchers say was unprecedented four public appearances over the past week, Powell repeatedly lauded the economy’s …