Bloomberg Canada’s biggest banks are signaling that financial issues from the Covid-19 crisis are largely in the rear-view mirror in North America — and earlier than analysts had expected. After a year of stockpiling record amounts of capital to protect against a wave of loan defaults, Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank — the country’s two largest banks — …

Bloomberg The Swedish central bank will by law have to identify threats against sustainable development and consider issues such as employment when it conducts policy, according to a government proposal. Climate change could become a long term threat “to economic development broadly, as well as stability in the financial system,” according to the proposal for a new Riksbank Act, which …

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley moved closer to take full control of its securities and fund management ventures in China as it ramped up investments in the world’s second-largest economy. The US bank is buying an additional 39% of the securities joint venture for 569.6 million yuan ($89.5 million), according to an exchange filing from Shanghai Chinafortune Co, the parent company of …