Bloomberg UBS Group AG warned that the worst may not be over after clients pulled $13 billion in assets during a market meltdown in the final months of 2018. Increased volatility, rising protectionism and geopolitical tensions are still weighing on investors, which will hit wealth and asset management revenue in the first quarter, the Zurich-based bank said on Tuesday. Withdrawals ...

Bloomberg Philip Lane has staked his claim to become the European Central Bank’s (ECB) next chief economist — now he must wait to see if he has the field to himself. At a meeting of euro-zone finance ministers, the Irish central-bank governor became the first nominee to replace Peter Praet on the ECB’s Executive Board in June. That puts him ...

Bloomberg Geneva prosecutors have opened a fresh investigation into alleged forgery by former Credit Suisse Group AG banker Patrice Lescaudron, seven weeks after his release from prison and just as appeals in the case got underway in Geneva. Swiss prosecutors in the more than three-year-old case are looking into how Lescaudron allegedly faked dozens of bank statements for one of ...