Bloomberg The world’s biggest banks pressed policy makers to pass an urgent Brexit fix to ensure European traders’ access to London derivatives clearinghouses and avoid rupturing 61 trillion pounds ($78 trillion) in contracts. The industry’s top lobbying associations told the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, that it must act fast or risk turmoil when the stopgap solution elapses …

Bloomberg New Zealand’s central bank (RBNZ ) left interest rates unchanged — defying widespread expectations of a cut — saying there are signs the domestic economy will stop slowing and that inflation will pick up. The local currency jumped. “Economic developments since the August Statement do not warrant a change to the already stimulatory monetary setting at this time,” the …

Bloomberg It took two years, but Home Capital Group Inc shares have regained all their lost ground since the Canadian alternative mortgage lender almost collapsed in 2017. Home Capital has doubled this year to become the sixth-best performing stock on Canada’s benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index. The Toronto-based lender closed at C$29 on the Toronto Stock Exchange for a market value …