Bloomberg Just a few years after banks helped create a gargantuan market for blank check companies, they’re pulling away from the deals, afraid of the risks. Goldman Sachs Group Inc is ending its involvement with most of the special purpose acquisition companies it took public and pausing new US SPAC issuance, Bloomberg reported. Bank of America Corp (BofA) scaled back ...

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG’s board has held early stage talks on potentially replacing Chief Executive Officer Thomas Gottstein after a string of scandals and misfires, people with knowledge of the matter said. A change at the top of the bank could come as early as this year. While the board continues to publicly voice support for Gottstein, some ...

  Bloomberg A regional central bank is clamping down on Bitcoin transactions after the Central African Republic adopted the cryptocurrency as legal tender without consulting its monetary authority. The Bank of Central African States, which already doesn’t recognize cryptocurrencies, is now preventing all lenders from partnering with payment platforms that transact in digital currencies or from recognising them as an ...