Bloomberg Italy will seek a seat on the European Central Bank’s Executive Board and use it to push the institution to buy bonds to fund infrastructure projects, according to a senior lawmaker in the coalition government. European Union leaders are preparing to start negotiations over the next suite of top policy positions including a replacement for ECB President Mario Draghi. ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is considering options including a capital increase as part of a wider overhaul it plans to unveil in the next two months, people with knowledge of the matter said. Tapping investors for fresh cash is the least favoured option because management is aware that it could trigger a backlash in light of Deutsche Bank’s low stock ...

Bloomberg The most hawkish member of Poland’s Monetary Policy Council said a single interest-rate increase is needed to ward off the rising threat of inflation. Central banker Kamil Zube-lewicz said that such tightening wouldn’t harm economy but ev-en he holds out little hope that the 10-member policy panel — which has kept the benchmark unchanged for seven years — will ...