Bloomberg Evercore Inc has hired Adi Jayaraman from Citigroup Inc for its financial technology investment banking business. Jayaraman will be a senior managing director leading fintech based in New York. Evercore has boosted its technology investment banking business in the past few years. The boutique investment bank was named exclusive financial adviser to Nuance Communication Inc on its pending sale …

Bloomberg The Bank of Canada released guidance for the first time on how it plans to eventually reduce monetary stimulus, saying it will first raise interest rates before curbing its holdings of government bonds. Governor Tiff Macklem provided details on what he called central bank’s “monetary policy for the recovery.” Macklem reiterated the bank intends to bring its bond purchases …

Bloomberg UniCredit SpA is seeking to renegotiate a five-year-old deal with Amundi SA to distribute asset management products, in a further sign of Chief Executive Officer Andrea Orcel’s drive to reshape Italy’s second-largest lender. Orcel aims to improve the terms of an accord stemming from the purchase by the French asset manager of UniCredit’s Pioneer Global Asset Management unit that’s …