Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA has won approval to set up a wealth-management joint venture in China, adding competition to global rivals including BlackRock Inc. and Amundi SA vying for a slice of the $4 trillion market. China’s banking regulator has granted permission for the French lender’s asset-management arm to form the venture with the wealth unit of Agricultural Bank ...

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) reported its highest quarterly net interest income (NII) in at least a decade as the lender reaps the benefits of the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes, and debt traders beat analysts’ estimates. NII, a key source of revenue for the bank, rises 24% to $13.8 billion in the third quarter on higher rates and loan ...

  Bloomberg Global investors slashed allocations to UK equities in the month after Liz Truss became prime minister, a Bank of America Corp. (BofA) survey showed. Exposure to British stocks “collapsed,” with allocations dropping by nine percentage points compared with the previous month, according to BofA’s global fund manager survey in October. A net 33% of investors are now underweight UK ...