Bloomberg EasyJet Plc Chief Financial Officer Andrew Findlay has informed the carrier that he plans to leave next year, days after facing down a demand for his removal from the board in a dramatic shareholder vote. Findlay will stay on until May 2021 when his contract expires, EasyJet said in a statement on Tuesday. The low-cost carrier said it would …

Bloomberg One of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) key policy makers signalled that the institution is very likely to boost its emergency bond-buying program to fight the coronavirus. With inflation low, there is room to innovate and act “rapidly and powerfully,” Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau told a conference in Paris. He also signalled that he’d like …

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc is taking full control of its German business as Europe’s largest lender restructures its global operations. The bank will acquire an 18.66% stake in HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG from Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg, a regional lender in the south of Germany, according to statements by the banks. They didn’t disclose a price. HSBC is pivoting to Asia …