Bloomberg Liberbank rebounded in Madrid trading after regulators prohibited short selling of the Spanish lender in the wake of a stock plunge last week. The shares jumped as much as 31 percent, the most since the bank’s 2013 debut, and were up 28 percent priced at 86.8 cents as of 10:06 a.m. The stock dropped 41 percent last week after …

Dubai / Reuters Bahrain’s central bank ordered banks operating in the kingdom to freeze assets and bank accounts of the Qatar-linked 59 individuals and 12 entities that a group of Saudi-led Arab countries have accused of links to terrorism, the state news agency BNA reported in a statement. The move came after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain, who …

Bloomberg Global bank regulators have been toiling for a decade on capital rules intended to help prevent another financial crisis. Now they’re within touching distance of a final deal, with one main obstacle standing in their way: France. The U.S. and Europe have long been at loggerheads over measures to stop banks from gaming the capital rules known as Basel …