Bloomberg Mexico’s central bank should be prepared for a slowdown in its economy while growth in the U.S. accelerates, with potential implications to the path of benchmark interest rates in the coming months, the newest member of the central bank board Alejandro Diaz de Leon said. A series of rate increases by the central bank in the past year …

  Bloomberg Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc rose to a one-year high after the bank said it will scrap the planned sale of its Williams & Glyn consumer-banking unit. The shares gained as much as 6.4 percent and were up 11.2 pence to 254 pence as of 8:58 a.m., the highest among British banks in London trading on Monday. …

  Bloomberg Chinese banks had more than 26 trillion yuan ($3.8 trillion) of wealth-management products held off their balance sheets at the end of December, a 30 percent increase from a year earlier, according to the central bank. The expansion of this form of shadow banking, with money eventually being diverted to quasi-loans and bonds, outpaced the 10 percent growth …