Bloomberg Cboe Global Markets Inc. is looking to shake up stock-market pricing when it starts handling shares of Polish, Hungarian and Czech companies next month in a move breaking up near-monopolies among eastern Europe’s largest exchanges. Cboe, the largest share-trading platform in western Europe since the acquisition of Bats Global Markets in 2017, has been meeting local brokerages in the …

Bloomberg Italy’s populist leaders are focussing on how to shield the nation’s banks in case market pressure worsens amid a standoff with the European Union over the government’s budget plan. Premier Giuseppe Conte asked government entities to prepare options to help the lenders if the decline in the value of their holdings of government debt requires them to recapitalise, Corriere …

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer John Flint delivered the kind of growth that investors have been waiting for. Flint, who took over this year, succeeded in posting third-quarter revenue gains that outpaced expenses: adjusted rev- enue climbed 9 percent while costs increased 2 percent. The shares in Hong Kong jumped after falling close to a two-year low last …