China’s central bank plans to apply a stricter method for assessing banks’ capital as part of efforts to contain financial-sector risks, people with knowledge of the matter said. Under the proposed change to the so-called Macro Prudential Assessment framework, the People’s Bank of China will remove an intermediary category in its evaluation of banks’ capital adequacy, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private.

China’s central bank plans to apply a stricter method for assessing banks’ capital as part of efforts to contain financial-sector risks, people with knowledge of the matter said. Under the proposed change to the so-called Macro Prudential Assessment framework, the People’s Bank of China will remove an intermediary category in its evaluation of banks’ capital adequacy, the people said, asking not to be identified because the matter is private.

Do you need that new jacket, or do you just want it really badly? Sure, you could say outerwear is essential for keeping warm in cold climates, but it’s much harder to argue that it needs to be a luxurious leather coat. Some things you need, and some you just want.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday’s auction to their highest levels in more than eight years. The Treasury Department auctioned $30 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 0.745 percent, up from 0.515 percent last week.

In normal times, in a normal country, court proceedings over mortgage arrears would not be the stuff of headline news. In a soulless white concrete court building, leaders of the I Won’t Pay movement have been turning routine eviction proceedings into the frontline in a popular fight-back against austerity.

In the hunt for the lowest mortgage refinance rate, there are some things you can control and some you can’t. Rates moving up just when you’re about to refi? Can’t control that.

In the hunt for the lowest mortgage refinance rate, there are some things you can control and some you can’t. Rates moving up just when you’re about to refi? Can’t control that.

Repurchase agreements, or repos, are a tool of monetary operations used by the Fed in carrying out monetary policy. In a repo, the Fed will buy securities from authorized counterparties at an agreed-upon price for an agreed-upon term.

Repurchase agreements, or repos, are a tool of monetary operations used by the Fed in carrying out monetary policy. In a repo, the Fed will buy securities from authorized counterparties at an agreed-upon price for an agreed-upon term.

Metro Bank has defied uncertainty brought about by Britain’s vote to leave the EU and stuck to its guns on growth targets, reiterating Wednesday a pledge to double in size by 2020. The upstart lender, who counts Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management as its largest shareholder, reported its second quarterly profit against a backdrop of overarching economic uncertainty and said that it has seen no significant change in customer behaviour since the U.K voted to leave the European Union in June last year.

Thirty-year fixed mortgage rates were up six basis points today, while 15-year fixed loans and 5/1 ARMs also rose slightly, according to a NerdWallet survey of current mortgage rates published by national lenders Tuesday morning.

Sweden’s biggest mortgage lender plans to open pop-up banks across the country, reversing half a decade of shuttering branches. Swedbank AB, which has cut its network by almost two-thirds since 2011, envisions portable banks setting up virtually anywhere, from university campuses to real estate brokers’ offices to corporate clients’ headquarters.