Bloomberg UniCredit SpA will sell new shares for more than a third less than their current price in a 13 billion-euro ($14 billion) rights offer aimed at strengthening its capital position. The bank will sell stock at 8.09 euros a share and offer 13 new shares for every five held, the Milan-based lender said in a statement. The offer ...

  Bloomberg The number of bankers and financiers pulling down 1 million euros ($1.1 million) or more soared 33 percent to 5,142 across the European Union in 2015, the bloc’s banking regulator said. Bankers based in the UK accounted for 80 percent of the highest earners largely driven by appreciation of the pound against the euro, the European Banking Authority ...

  NEW YORK / AP A former Morgan Stanley financial adviser was arrested in Nevada on charges in New York that he stole at least $5 million from several members of a wealthy family to live lavishly, including using private jets, authorities said. Barry Connell, 50, of Chester, New Jersey, was arrested in Henderson, Nevada, on fraud and identity theft ...