| | Euro zone banks tightened access to mortgages in the three months to September and expect to continue doing so in the final quarter of the year, a European Central Bank survey showed on Tuesday. | | | Sumitomo Life Insurance plans to step up investment in foreign bonds without currency hedge in the six months to March as it sees limited risk of a stronger yen, a top investment planning official said on Tuesday. | | | UBS posted its highest quarterly profit since 2015 on Tuesday, as robust trading activity by the world's ultra wealthy led to a 23% surge in fee income. | | | Shares of the blank-check acquisition company that plans to publicly list former U.S. President Donald Trump's new social media venture fell on Monday after an eye-watering rally last week, as a short-seller said it was betting against the company. | | | John McCormick, the co-head of Blackstone Group's $81 billion hedge fund unit, plans to leave the private equity firm in the coming months, a company representative said on Monday. | | | An activist investor who tried to take control of the board at online appliance retailer 1847 Goedeker Inc a few months ago made a rare public apology for having ignored a settlement agreement that he and the company had reached. | | | UBS Group has agreed to sell its Spanish wealth management business to Madrid-based Singular Bank, the Swiss bank said on Monday, its second exit from a European market in the past 12 months. | | | Donald Trump has united some of his supporters and detractors in buying shares in his new company and hoping to score a big win. | | | HSBC shrugged off concerns about pandemic-related bad loans and property problems in China on Monday with a surprise 74% quarterly profit jump and a $2 billion share buyback. | | | The U.S. Department of Justice is launching a nationwide initiative to combat discriminatory lending practices, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday. | | | | |