Bloomberg Banco Santander SA will take a 1.5 billion-euro ($1.7 billion) charge over its UK business, which has struggled to boost profit amid stricter regulations and a competitive mortgage market. The impairment will be included in third-quarter results, the Spanish lender said. It won’t affect the bank’s cash flow or tier 1 capital ratio, a key measure of financial strength. …

Bloomberg Ghana’s pension funds are safe from the crisis engulfing money managers caught in the aftermath of a banking-industry cleanup. “The only way some may have been affected is if they made fixed-term investments with some of the banks that were shut down,” Hayford Attah Krufi, chief executive officer of the National Pensions Regulatory Authority, said. “But, because the government …

Bloomberg Central banks in the Philippines and Thailand will grapple with mounting global risks when they decide interest rates this week, keen to bolster their economies against slower growth. Thailand was expected to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday after a surprise reduction last month, while a day later the Philippines will probably lower its benchmark rate for a third …