Bloomberg Christine Lagarde is set to join what remains a minority of women in senior roles at euro-area central banks. While she’s secured the top job at the ECB, all the permanent governors in the currency bloc’s 19 members are men. Female representation in high-ranking positions is still lacking at the Frankfurt-based institution and most of the national monetary authorities. …

Bloomberg Shortly after being appointed South Africa’s Registrar of Banks in 2015, Kuben Naidoo asked his colleagues where the banking license division was. He was told that there wasn’t one because the registrar hadn’t received an application for 11 years. After Naidoo received his first application from TymeBank that year, the activity hasn’t stopped. The regulator has received applications from …

Bloomberg A little over two decades ago, Deutsche Bank AG set out to become a Wall Street giant. Its CEO Christian Sewing will probably pull the plug on that dream for good soon. Sewing is poised to unveil the biggest job cuts programme in the bank’s history, including a major retreat across its briefly held US empire, people familiar with …