Bloomberg Credit Agricole SA, France’s second-biggest lender, is scouting for potential acquisitions in Italy as banking deals accelerate in Europe, according to people familiar with the deliberations. The French firm has discussed purchases of small and mid-sized banks in Italy, said the people, who asked not to be identified because deliberations are private. Potential targets include Banco BPM SpA as ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is revising its work-from-home policies in an effort to permanently reduce office space, adding to a growing number of lenders that are using lessons learned from the pandemic to lower costs. The bank’s leadership is working on a new “hybrid model” for how staff can split work between the office and their homes, Chief Executive Officer ...

Bloomberg Colombia’s central bank cut interest rates to a record low in a split decision after inflation slowed below its target and the weak recovery left a quarter of urban workers still jobless. Four of the bank’s seven-member board voted to reduce the benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to 1.75%, Governor Juan Jose Echavarria said after the meeting. ...