Bloomberg Bank of England (BOE) Deputy Governor Charlotte Hogg failed to tell the central bank that her brother worked at Barclays when she joined as chief operating officer in 2013. The declaration was only made in a questionnaire Hogg completed as part of her appointment this year as deputy governor for markets and banking. Hogg said she takes ‘full …

  Bloomberg UBS Group AG is pushing to settle a French tax fraud investigation for less than the 300 million euros ($317 million) it paid to resolve a similar issue in Germany, people familiar with the matter said. That’s significantly below the 1.1 billion-euro bond the bank posted to cover potential penalties. UBS has been in talks since late 2016 …

  OAKLAND, Calif / AP It was the swag-bags that convinced community health organizer Julia Liou to redraw the battle plan in a fight to reduce the hazardous chemical exposures of nail-salon workers, most of them low-paid Asian immigrant women. In 2005, Liou watched at California’s state Capitol as dozens of lobbyists gave away bags of lipsticks and other beauty …