Bloomberg UBS Group AG is laying off equity capital markets bankers because of a sharp decline in revenue after a slowdown in deal-making across the industry, according to people familiar with the matter. The Swiss firm began laying off a handful of bankers in equity linked and capital markets in Europe and Africa this month, the people said, asking …

  Bloomberg European banks could earn almost 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) in annual revenue from financing the transition to a more sustainable economy, according to their top regulator. “The balance sheet choices banks will make about green and non-green assets will materially impact their bottom lines,” said Andrea Enria, who leads the European Central Bank’s supervisory board. “Consumers and …

  Bloomberg Barclays Plc expects to take a 450 million-pound ($591 million) hit and will delay a share buyback until the second quarter after issuing about $15 billion more structured notes and exchange traded notes than it had registered for sale. Barclays Bank Plc, the subsidiary that holds the lender’s corporate and investment bank, has determined that “securities offered and …