Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co, one of Wall Street’s staunchest advocates of returning to Manhattan skyscrapers, is offering employees the option of working from home in the opening weeks of 2022, and Citigroup Inc (Citi) and Bank of America Corp (BofA) are encouraging staff to log on remotely, as more financial firms grapple with the latest surge in Covid-19 ...

  Bloomberg Banco Santander SA is racing to retrieve 130 million pounds ($175 million) paid out to thousands of British customers in a Christmas Day slip-up. Spain’s biggest lender accidentally made a second payment on December 25 to about 75,000 people and firms who had been due for one-off or programed payments from 2,000 businesses with accounts at its UK ...

  Bloomberg The Swiss National Bank (SNB) bought foreign exchange worth 2.8 billion francs ($3.1 billion) in the third quarter just before the franc began a sharper appreciation against the euro. The franc broke through a key level of 1.04 per euro and continued to strengthen towards 1.03 during final days of 2021. That might challenge the central bank’s description ...