Bloomberg For the fifth straight quarter, European banks are set to match or beat Wall Street rivals after a debt trading surge last year saw revenues surge by almost 30%. Six of the region’s top investment banks — led by Barclays Plc and Deutsche Bank AG — are expected to show an average 29% increase in bond and currency …

  Bloomberg Zopa Ltd. has completed a funding round of £75 million ($92 million) and is on the lookout for deals as early as this quarter. The raise from existing investors “cements” the UK fintech’s status as a unicorn with a valuation of $1 billion, the bank said on Thursday. Zopa, backed by investors including Softbank’s Vision Fund and Northzone, …

  Bloomberg Gautam Adani’s businesses have lost $108 billion in a week, one of the biggest wipeouts in India’s history, after an explosive report by short-seller Hindenburg Research forced him to pull a stock sale at the 11th hour and led some lenders to reject his securities as collateral for client trades. Adani, who last year became the world’s second-richest …