Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc named Jayant Rikhye as chief executive officer of its India unit, to replace Stuart Milne. Rikhye, currently the bank’s head of International for the Asia-Pacific region, will start his new role on December 1, according to an emailed statement from the London-based lender. Milne, who has been India CEO for five years, will take a three-month ...

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill Lynch was fined 34.5 million pounds ($45.5 million) for failing to report two years’ worth of exchange traded derivative transactions, in what UK regulators said was the first penalty under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The Financial Conduct Authority said Merrill failed to report 68.5mn transactions between February 2014 and 2016. The bank ...

Bloomberg Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. reached a last-minute settlement with the nation’s securities regulator over allegations it rigged a benchmark interest rate. The in-principle agreement was announced on the first day of a court hearing over allegations ANZ Bank, Westpac Banking Corp. and National Australia Bank Ltd. traders sought to manipulate the benchmark bank bill swap rate ...