Bloomberg Ireland won’t change its restrictions on banker pay, its junior finance minister signalled, in the clearest sign yet that the rules will remain in place. “I’m of the view the decision is made,” Michael D’Arcy said in a Bloomberg TV interview in Hong Kong. “The bankers in those institutions are well paid. The threshold is 500,000 euros and that’s …

Bloomberg Now is finally the time to buy risk assets, with global stocks set to advance into the year-end, strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co said. Positive technical indicators and monetary easing will likely outweigh the uncertainty of the US-China trade war and the “wild card” of developments in tariff negotiations, according to JPMorgan. After August’s sell-off, the strategists signalled …

Bloomberg Denmark’s financial watchdog has reported Danske Bank A/S to the police after it overcharged retail investors. The bank, which is already under criminal investigation in the US and across Europe for its role in an Estonian money laundering scandal, misled its customers about the returns they could expect on short-term investments, the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) in Copenhagen said …