Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co is buying the former BNP Paribas SA offices in central Paris with space to house as many as 450 employees, as banks seek to bolster their footprint in the European Union after Brexit. JPMorgan, which currently has 260 employees in the French capital, is taking over the seven-storey building a short walk from the Louvre …

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. received approval from the South African Reserve Bank to conduct the business of a bank in the country, it said. It will open the Johannesburg branch of Goldman Sachs International Bank, and has been admitted as a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s interest rate and currency derivatives market, it said in a statement on …

Bloomberg Nomura Holdings Inc plans to hire dozens of private bankers in Hong Kong and Singapore in a bid to extend its wealth management push from Japan and mainland China to the rest of Asia. The Tokyo-based firm, which has already outlined aggressive plans for China, aims to grow the assets it manages from those two hubs by five times …