Bloomberg Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is benefiting from the lender’s dominance in its home country and a capital-markets division that’s cashing in on a surge in dealmaking. As Canada’s largest mortgage lender, Royal Bank is getting a boost from strong home sales and surging real estate values that have lifted that portion of its loan book. The bank has …

Bloomberg European countries should band together to create a “green capital market” to finance the transition to cleaner fuels and other initiatives needed to meet the Paris Agreement climate targets, UBS Group AG chairman Axel Weber said. Weber, speaking on a panel at the European Forum Alpbach in Austria, said Europe’s leading position in tackling pollution should help it create …

Bloomberg Japan’s biggest brokerage has started offering subscriptions to a luxurious Italian food delivery service, where customers can use tokens to buy and trade dishes as their value fluctuates. An affiliate of Nomura Holdings Inc began selling the tokens, that exist on the blockchain, for four high-end food parcels a year from Masayuki Okuda, an award-winning Japanese chef famous for …