Bloomberg French prosecutors and lawyers for the government said UBS Group AG should be ordered to pay $3.6 billion — 33% less than the original judgment — for allegedly helping French clients hide money from the nation’s tax authorities. Prosecutor Serge Roques asked a Paris court of appeals to impose a 2 billion-euro fine on UBS, acknowledging the limits set ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG CEO Thomas Gottstein signalled he’d consider further separating the asset-management unit from the rest of the bank after the Greensill Capital collapse, as he steps up efforts to limit the reputational damage from the supply-chain finance scandal. Making asset management an independent entity is “potentially part of the plan,” Gottstein said in a Bloomberg Television ...

Bloomberg China appointed two new economists to its central bank monetary policy committee with expertise in the labour market and population, suggesting an increased focus on boosting jobs and household incomes. Cai Fang, a well-known economist at the government-linked Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Wang Yiming, a former deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, ...