Bloomberg Sweden’s financial regulator says giving national supervisors additional powers over bank branches — even systemically important ones like Nordea Bank AB — is bad policy. According to Martin Noreus, deputy director general of the Financial Supervisory Authority in Stockholm, national regulators risk missing the big picture. “It is sub-optimal and risky when different supervisors act too much in silos,” …

Bloomberg A lawyer for UBS Group AG urged a New York jury to reject the tale of a former senior bond strategist who claims he was fired for refusing to let the Swiss bank’s traders influence his research reports. Trevor Murray, a onetime UBS strategist for commercial mortgage-backed securities, alleges he was dismissed in 2012 for blowing the whistle on …

Bloomberg Boeing Co. is weighing a potential combination with Embraer SA of Brazil, setting the stage for a blockbuster deal that would fuel the US aerospace giant’s rivalry with Airbus SE in the highly competitive market for smaller jets. The planemakers have been exploring a takeover for more than a year, with senior-level talks that gained urgency in recent months …