Bloomberg Banks in the UK paid 34.2 billion pounds ($42 billion) in tax in the latest fiscal year, 9 percent more than a year earlier, reflecting an increase in the levy on balance sheets and changes to corporation tax, a report from the British Bankers’ Association showed. Receipts were evenly split between domestic and international lenders, with the former …

  Frankfurt / AFP Donald Trump’s shock election win in the United States “is not a good day for the world economy” and could force the European Central Bank “to intervene”, governing council member Ewald Nowotny said on Wednesday. Nowotny told reporters in Vienna the ECB was “prepared to intervene” as he warned of “massive insecurities” after the vote outcome …

  Bloomberg Tesco Bank, the lending arm of the U.K.’s biggest grocer, said it’s spending 2.5 million pounds ($3.1 million) to reimburse customers who lost money during a wave of fraudulent account transactions over the weekend. About 9,000 of the firm’s 136,000 checking-account clients fell victim and were fully reimbursed by Tuesday, the company said in a statement. The bank …