Bloomberg Ireland’s banking sector needs to be allowed to move on from the financial crisis in order to retain staff, the IMF said, as the debate over caps on bankers’ pay intensifies. “It is important to resolve lingering issues” from global financial crisis which include “recognising banks’ need to retain talent, and noting importance of divesting government ownership,” the …

  Bloomberg Argentina’s central bank dealt cryptocurrencies a blow, prohibiting financial institutions in the South American country from offering clients any operations involving unregulated digital assets. The monetary authority banned operations that allow bank clients to purchase crypto, just days after two large institutions announced they would let clients buy Bitcoin and other digital currencies. The ban also includes assets …

  Bloomberg China’s foreign exchange reserves fall for the fourth straight month in April, as capital outflow pressures grew and the yuan weakened. Reserves fall to $3.1197 trillion in April from March’s $3.188 trillion, the People’s Bank of China said in a statement. That compares with the median estimate of $3.13 trillion in a Bloomberg survey of economists. China in …