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Bloomberg Brian Moynihan’s efforts to boost Bank of America Corp. profit through cost cutting finally got some help from interest rates. The lender posted the highest net income in six years as the chief executive officer cut expenses more than forecast and net interest income rose to the highest since 2011. During his seven years as CEO, Moynihan has worked ...

Bloomberg FirstRand Ltd., Africa’s biggest lender by market value, offered to buy UK challenger bank Aldermore Group Plc for about 1.1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion). Shares in the British firm soared. Aldermore received ‘an indicative proposal’ from Johannesburg-based FirstRand of 313 pence per share, 37 percent more than its average share price this year, and directors at the UK lender ...

Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA plans to substantially increase the number of client advisers employed by its Asian wealth-management business, seeing an opportunity in the retreat of some European rivals from the region. BNP has been investing and hiring in Asia for several years and intends to continue its push, said Vincent Lecomte, co-head of the French bank’s wealth-management business. Asked ...

Bloomberg Former HSBC Holdings Plc currency trader Mark Johnson took the witness stand, insisting that he cheated no one in a $3.5 billion foreign-exchange transaction. Johnson is accused of fraud for buying British pounds ahead of a client’s order, forcing the client to pay a higher price. The bank made an $8 million profit as a result of the currency ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank’s (ECB) loss of one of the four career officials managing its supervisory arm adds to a swelling vacancy list at the top of the bank watchdog just when its workload is set to increase. Jukka Vesala, one of a quartet of director generals at the helm of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, has resigned, the Frankfurt-based ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. is edging closer to a settlement with regulators over the crisis-era mortgage bonds investigation that took a $1 billion chunk out of third-quarter profit, according to Chief Financial Officer John Shrewsberry. “We are now having a negotiation, so it’s a matter of probably months or quarters, not anything more than that,” Shrewsberry said. The bank ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co. is the “king of corporate welfare,” the UK’s main opposition Labour Party said, accusing the US aerospace giant of “egregious hypocrisy” in pursuing an illegal-subsidies claim against Bombardier Inc. that threatens thousands of jobs in Northern Ireland. The US slapped 300 percent of duties on Bombardier’s C Series aircraft after upholding Boeing’s contention that the Canadian company ...

Bloomberg Wal-Mart Stores Inc. sold bonds to refinance debt as it girds for an online battle against Amazon.com Inc. The world’s largest retailer issued $6 billion of unsecured bonds in six parts, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, after cutting a three-year floating rate note from the offering. The longest portion, a 30-year security, yields 75 basis ...

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. said it wouldn’t pay import duties on Bombardier Inc.’s marquee jetliner, which was socked in the last two weeks with 300 percent tariffs by the US Commerce Department. It’s possible Delta will delay deliveries of the C Series planes, which are scheduled to begin next year, Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian said. The airline is ...

Bloomberg Kroger Co., battered for months by intense grocery competition as Amazon.com Inc. muscles into the industry, has finally given investors cause for optimism. The supermarket giant kicked off its biggest rally in more than two years after saying it might sell its convenience-store business, an attempt to capitalise on a merger wave in that field. The operation, which spans ...