US Navy sailor sentenced to 27 months on China spy charges

Events: Japan’s foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa visits Helsinki and meets President Sauli Niinistö and foreign minister Elina Valtonen. Singapore foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan concludes official visits to Portugal and Denmark.

Central banks: Bank of England executive director Nathanaël Benjamin appears before the Treasury select committee over his appointment to the Financial Policy Committee. Banque de France governor François Villeroy de Galhau gives a new year address to the country’s financial sector.

Economic indicators: The OECD releases an economic survey on Denmark and the EU statistics office issues eurozone unemployment rates for November. Switzerland’s December jobless data comes out. German industrial production and French trade data for November are also announced.

Corporate updates: UK companies reporting quarterly results include Nottingham-based miniature maker Games Workshop Group and Leicester-based retailer Shoe Zone.

The UK and US have decried election interference in Bangladesh after authorities arrested thousands of members of the main opposition party prior to voting on Sunday.

The British Foreign Office said it condemned “acts of intimidation and violence” during the campaign. “Such conduct has no place in political life.”

A US Department of State spokesperson said on Monday that the elections, in which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won a fifth term, was “not free or fair”.

Hasina’s Awami League took 223 of the 300 seats contested in the election.

Carta, a $7.4bn software company used by start-ups to track their investors, is shutting down part of its business as it grapples to contain the fallout from allegations that it tried to trade customers’ shares without…