Bloomberg Just a few weeks into Deutsche Bank AG’s biggest restructuring yet, the complications are already starting. Germany’s largest lender posted the worst second-quarter trading result of the big Wall Street banks. The bottom line was below expectations after a $3.8 billion restructuring charge. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, finance chief James von Moltke signaled that some turnaround targets …

Bloomberg European Union (EU) officials called for a further tightening of the bloc’s anti-money laundering rules after identifying a host of failures that led to scandals across the financial system. Banks at times completely ignored requirements to stop illicit financial flows and supervisors were ill-equipped and often slow to deal with the issues, the European Commission said on Wednesday. Handing …

Bloomberg Australia’s central bank will lower interest rates twice more and could adopt a package with the second easing to allow lenders to pass on the reduction in full, Westpac Banking Corp Chief Economist Bill Evans said. Evans brought forward his forecast for the next cut to October from November — saying by then the labour market will have deteriorated …