Bloomberg A suite of euro-area data will provide Mario Draghi with his first simultaneous dispatches from both fronts in his struggle to boost inflation—showing how he still has a fight on his hands. Gross domestic product numbers, in a newly accelerated publication just one month after the first quarter ended, will coincide with the usual end-of-the-month inflation statistics to …

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. has named Piers Davison head of its financial institutions group’s investment banking for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Davison joins Citigroup from JPMorgan Chase & Co. where he was most recently in charge of U.K. FIG, and was the head of banks for EMEA, Citigroup said on Monday in a memo, which was obtained by …

  Bloomberg The combined compensation for Standard Bank Group Ltd.’s joint Chief Executive Officers Sim Tshabalala and Ben Kruger rose 43 percent after full-year profit climbed by a third. Kruger’s total pay was 30.79 million rand ($2.1 million), including incentive awards amounting to 22 million rand, giving the CEO an increase of 61 percent from a year earlier, according to …