Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc has spent the past six months fighting calls from its largest shareholder to split up. That isn’t stopping the bank ramping up its own deal-making program. The London-based lender expects to increase the amount of acquisitions it makes in the coming years, a person familiar with the company’s thinking said. Further disposals are also expected but ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of Korea (BOK) is set to pivot back to an outsized interest-rate increase as it seeks to keep pace with the Federal Reserve and rein in inflationary pressures exacerbated by a weaker currency. The central bank will raise its key rate by a larger-than-regular 50 basis points to 3% at Wednesday’s meeting despite having dialled back ...

Bloomberg The world’s top central banks reacted too slowly to accelerating prices, according Swiss National Bank President Thomas Jordan. “Inflation has been underestimated globally,” Jordan said in Zurich, adding that leading rate setters “very likely waited too long” combating it. “But you have to say: Uncertainty was exceptionally high in this situation — and stays high,” he said. “Central banks ...