Bloomberg Bank of Montreal (BMO) is splitting up its trading operations in Canada, the US, Asia and London, following other firms including Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) in taking measures to ensure business continues amid the coronavirus outbreak. “We are separating some of our critical trading staff to our business continuity plan sites in some locations as part of our ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. plans to eliminate as many as 140 positions at its private bank in Switzerland as it moves teams to cheaper locations to cut costs, according to a person familiar with the matter. The bank notified employees that it will be moving jobs in operations, technology and other support functions to locations including Scotland, the Philippines ...

Bloomberg Sweden’s Riksbank signalled it is preparing liquidity measures to protect the largest Nordic economy from the fallout of the coronavirus, but said interest-rate cuts aren’t likely to play a role in any emergency package. “Our assessment right now is that maintaining the supply of liquidity is the most important thing,” Governor Stefan Ingves said in a statement on Tuesday. ...