Bloomberg The Nordic region’s biggest bank reported profit in the second quarter that exceeded market estimates, and committed to a forecast that it will make more money in 2018 than it did last year. Nordea Bank AB saw net income grow to 1.09 billion euros, just beating the 1.05 billion-euro estimate in a Bloomberg survey of analysts, according to a …

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. is expanding its Japan prime brokerage business serving global hedge funds by hiring four people from rivals including Deutsche Bank AG. Two of the recruits will take up newly created positions, division head Toshikatsu Furumi said in an interview. They are Thomas Morrison, who will join from Deutsche Bank in September as head of financial resource management, …

Bloomberg Argentine Central Bank President Luis Caputo ditched a traditional press conference about monetary policy and instead held a question-and-answer session — with his own staff. It was the central bank’s first quarterly monetary policy report under Caputo, who took over the helm of the institution on June 14. His predecessor, Federico Sturzenegger, used to hold a press conference with …