Bloomberg UK banks are better placed to withstand a slowing economy as the country exits the European Union, Moody’s Investors Service said. Moody’s raised the outlook on the nation’s banks to stable from negative, according to a report Wednesday. Strong capital positions, loan quality and funding should underpin profitability even as the economy slows, while additional costs associated with preparing ...

Bloomberg The European Union’s top bank regulator is feeling the love. Eight cities in the bloc are competing to host the European Banking Authority when it decamps from London as part of Brexit. Their come-hither pitches offer a variety of perks for the EBA’s 189 employees, from access to military spas in Prague to paintball in Warsaw. The proposals also ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s administration may be poised to strike a peculiar deal for the next Air Force One planes: buying jumbo jets abandoned by a defunct Russian airline. The U.S. Air Force is in talks to purchase two 747-8 jetliners from Boeing Co. that were originally bound for Transaero Airlines, once Russia’s second-largest airline, said a person briefed on ...