Bloomberg Banco Santander SA is seeing the strongest demand for UK mortgages in “many, many years,” helping to underpin growth at the Spanish lending behemoth as it positions for higher interest rates globally, Chief Financial Officer Jose Garcia Cantera said. Lending for mortgages to British individuals climbed 4.4% from a year earlier to 174 billion pounds ($240 billion), Santander said ...

Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA will start a 900 million-euro ($1 billion) stock buyback after posting a 79% jump in equities trading and adding twice as much revenue as expected at its domestic markets unit. Strength in the two businesses helped offset a slump in fixed income trading that was twice as steep as the average decline at the biggest Wall ...

Bloomberg A former Wells Fargo & Co. investment adviser stole nearly $3 million from clients and used the money for personal expenses and to buy gold coins, federal prosecutors said. Kenneth A. Welsh, 41, was arrested at his home in River Edge, New Jersey on charges that he misappropriated funds from the accounts of five investors between 2016 and 2021, ...