Bloomberg Societe Generale SA is making a last-ditch effort to boost its performance after a trading slump threatened Chief Executive Officer Frederic Oudea’s targets. The French bank — recovering from regulatory probes that cost it billions of euros and a management reshuffle — plans to cut jobs in less profitable investment banking businesses to save at least 100 million euros ...

Bloomberg The head of Swedbank’s Estonian unit Robert Kitt is among three nominees who are in the running to replace central bank chief Ardo Hansson as the Baltic nation’s voting member on the European Central Bank’s Governing Council. The nominees, listed by the central bank’s eight-member supervisory board, also include deputy Governor Madis Muller and senior Finance Ministry official Marten ...

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 ...