UBS Group AG posted a robust quarter on the back of surging rates and cost control, enabling the Swiss bank to confirm a plan to return around $5.5 billion to investors this year. UBS said net income in the three months to September was $1.73 billion, compared with analyst estimates of $1.57 billion. The wealth management unit saw lending revenue …

A year after launching Africa’s first digital currency, Nigeria’s central bank is turning to the nation’s three-wheeler taxi operators to speed the adoption of the eNaira, as regulators across the world scrutinise its every move. It’s offering a 5% discount to drivers and passengers of the motorised rickshaws — known locally as Keke Napep — who use the eNaira. It’s …

The Bank of Canada is set to deliver a fifth — but possibly final — outsized interest-rate hike this week amid signs its inflation-fighting efforts may be dragging the country’s economy into a recession. Markets are pricing in a 75 basis-point increase in the central bank’s rate at its decision in Ottawa. That would bring the benchmark to 4%, a …