Bloomberg The Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) massive asset purchase program has taken it into uncharted territory, with its ballooning holdings now larger than the country’s annual economic output. Its hoard reached a staggering 553.6 trillion yen ($4.9 trillion), figures show, compared with nominal gross domestic product of 552.8 trillion yen at the end of June. Data due on Wednesday is …

Bloomberg Union Bancaire Privée SA (UBP has hired a group of about 15 private bankers from BNP Paribas SA as it steps up expansion in Asia, according to a person familiar with the matter. Some of the bankers will report to Alfred Tsai, who was BNP’s Hong Kong-based head of China wealth management before he joined UBP, said the person, …

Bloomberg Poland’s prime minister ordered an investigation into the regulator of the country’s financial industry after a newspaper reported that its chairman made an improper offer to the owner of a troubled bank. The Financial Supervision Authority rejected as “untrue” a report in Gazeta Wyborcza that Marek Chrzanowski suggested to Leszek Czarnecki, the owner of Getin Noble Bank SA, how …