Bloomberg Traders are betting the European Central Bank (ECB) will raise rates above zero this year for the first time since 2012, after a string of hawkish comments from policy makers spurred speculation the bank is priming the market for faster-than-expected monetary tightening. Money markets are pricing 75 basis points of interest-rate hikes by the ECB’s December decision, according …

  Bloomberg A senior BNP Paribas SA banker who denies terrorizing subordinates on the trading floor is claiming $4 million compensation for the unfair dismissal. Omar Alami, the then head of BNP’s equity derivatives sales for Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg, was fired in 2019 after an internal report revealed that a rant at a trader he allegedly called “useless” and …

Bloomberg The Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) bandwagon is coming to Australia as regulators finalise approvals for products offering direct exposure to digital assets. Cosmos Asset Management said it’s preparing to launch the Cosmos Purpose Bitcoin Access ETF in coming days. It will invest in the Purpose Bitcoin ETF, a Toronto-listed fund with assets of about C$1.6 billion ($1.3 billion). “We …