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UBS wins in fight over French bid for client data

Bloomberg UBS Group AG doesn’t have to hand over client details to French tax authorities after a Swiss court handed the country’s largest bank a clear victory in a long-running saga over banking secrecy. The Swiss Federal Administrative Court said that French officials didn’t provide evidence that “the taxpayers involved have failed to comply with their tax obligations.” “Simply having ...

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BNP equities trading resilient as its fixed income trails rivals

Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA’s resilience in equities helped offset declines at a key debt-trading business that under-performed Wall Street rivals. The Paris-based bank benefited from “good volumes” in derivatives and providing brokerage services to hedge funds, driving equities revenue to a three-year high. That contrasted with the FICC unit buying and selling bonds, currencies and commodities — its biggest trading ...

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Russia debt sanctions could send the ruble plunging 15%

Bloomberg The ruble could plunge by as much as 15 percent and borrowing costs would spike to a three-year high if the US goes ahead with proposals to impose sanctions on Russian government bonds, according to a new model developed by Citigroup Inc. Moscow-based analysts at the bank said that such extreme moves would come from a “worst-case scenario” of ...

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