Bloomberg Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau warned the nation’s presidential candidates that they need to meet deficit-cutting commitments or risk losing credibility with other European Union governments. “France has promised to go below 3 percent in 2017 and all our European partners are waiting or us. It’s the cornerstone of our credibility in Europe,” Villeroy de …

  Bloomberg Trade is likely to remain weak in the coming years, according to a report by the European Central Bank. While global trade grew on average roughly twice as fast as global output prior to the financial crisis, the ratio of imports to world GDP has largely stagnated over the last five years and will probably remain at current …

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG, which is trying to bolster its capital, is working to securitize billions of dollars of corporate loans to offload risk, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The bank is structuring the transaction as a synthetic collateralized loan obligation, which means the firm would keep servicing loans while transferring risk to investors, said …