Bloomberg About six months after UBS Group AG decided to merge its wealth management businesses into one super-unit, rival Credit Suisse Group AG is said to be taking a different approach. The bank plans to split its key international private banking unit into seven regions from four, with each having its own management and greater decision-making power, according to people …

MANAMA / Emirates Business Ithmaar Holding BSC, a Bahrain-based financial institution, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ithmaar Bank BSC, a Bahrain-based Islamic retail bank, each announced their financial results for the first half of 2018 with both reporting profits for the period. The announcement by the Ithmaar Holding Chairman His Royal Highness Prince Amr Al Faisal, who is also the Ithmaar …

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. retail clients who don’t live in the US will no longer be able to keep investment accounts as the bank shuts a business that it’s operated for decades. “After careful review, we’ve decided to no longer service Chase retail investment accounts to non-US residents,” said Elizabeth Seymour, a JPMorgan spokeswoman. “This decision allows us to …