Bloomberg India’s banks have been ordered to use the country’s courts to resolve bad loans totaling about 2 trillion rupees ($31 billion) issued to 12 large debtors. The Reserve Bank of India told the banks to use insolvency laws to find a solution for the debtors, which account for a quarter of the country’s total bad loans, before moving on …

Bloomberg Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RNBZ) chief Graeme Wheeler complained to the head of one of the nation’s largest banks about an economic commentary written by its research department. In a letter to Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) Chief Executive Officer Anthony Healy dated May 11, Wheeler said the BNZ’s Markets Outlook note of May 8 “appeared to bring …

Bloomberg The Czech central bank stepped up efforts to cool the mortgage market, warning that rising house prices may spiral out of control and hurt lenders in a country with one of Europe’s lowest levels of housing loans. As record-low interest rates helped fuel a credit expansion in the ex-communist European Union member, policy makers in Prague are pushing for …