Standard Chartered announces it will be resuming its interim dividend and buy back $250m of shares after H1 profits soared by 60 per cent. French lender Société Générale reports €1.4bn net income for the second quarter. Delta variant spikes in the U.S. weigh on markets Stateside. We hear from the Fed’s Christopher Waller who says the economy is ready for tapering. And in China, online gaming stocks fall after state media attacks the industry as ‘spiritual opium’.