Bloomberg Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has told large US banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc and American Express Co they should do more to help black- and women-owned community banks win federal contracts. Mnuchin in a letter asked some of the country’s biggest banks to participate in the Financial Agent Mentor-Protege Program, in which large lenders counsel their smaller rivals …

Bloomberg Ghana’s central bank has additional space to loosen policy thanks to the global move toward lower interest rates, as long as inflation slows, according to Governor Ernest Addison. “We are on a good disinflation path,” Addison said in an interview with Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town. “Inflation has continued to come down …

Bloomberg The UK Labour Party would seek to ban excessive bonuses for bankers if it came to power, unless the financial industry takes steps to curb excessive payments. John McDonnell, Labour’s Treasury spokesman, told the Financial Times he wanted to issue a warning to the finance industry that he would “take action” if it “hasn’t learnt its lesson.” A spokesman …