Bloomberg Banks’ options for gauging the risk of incurring losses from events such as fraud, cybercrime and litigation are set to shrink as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision tries to stop firms gaming the rules. The global regulator, whose members include the US Federal Reserve and the People’s Bank of China, proposed scrapping an ‘unduly complex’ internal model-based method ...

Bloomberg The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking to force UBS Group AG to turn over records on an account in Singapore held by a US citizen, potentially opening a new front against offshore tax evasion beyond Switzerland. The IRS last month asked a federal judge in Miami to force UBS, the largest Swiss bank, to produce documents on Ching-Ye ...

BLOOMBERG Bank of America Corp. (BofA) has generated less revenue from its equity and fixed-income trading businesses so far this year than in the same period of 2015, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The second-largest US lender’s revenue from fixed-income trading, which includes credit, currencies and commodities, dropped about 10 percent from a year earlier, the people ...