AP / Bloomberg Credit Suisse more than halved its fourth-quarter loss compared with a year earlier, the bank said on Tuesday, amid a “challenging” global market and continued cost cuts, after striking a multibillion-dollar settlement with U.S. regulators. The Zurich-based bank said it had set aside about $2 billion in the quarter to help pay for what became a …

  Bloomberg The rupee’s sharpest rally in almost a year is giving India’s central bank scope to take out an insurance policy for what could be a tumultuous 2017. A resumption of stock and bond inflows and a budget viewed as fiscally prudent and pro-growth spurred a 1.9 percent gain against the dollar in the last three weeks, the best …

  Reuters Standard Chartered will consider whether it can restart correspondent banking relationships with Sudan following the proposed lifting of U.S. sanctions, a senior executive said. Anurag Bajaj, who oversees the British-based lender’s correspondent banking business, where it provides services for other banks, said the bank was reviewing the implications of last month’s move by the outgoing Obama administration to …