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Lloyds set to pay Standard Life $174m

Bloomberg Lloyds Banking Group Plc and Standard Life Aberdeen Plc are set to settle a dispute over the bank’s decision to pull its 109 billion-pound ($136 billion) contract from the asset manager. Lloyds would pay Standard Life 140 million pounds in cash as compensation and leave 30 billion pounds of the total under their management for three years, according to ...

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‘Foreign funds can cure India’s credit crisis’

Bloomberg One of the most senior bankers in India has an antidote for the nation’s yearlong credit crisis that is showing no signs of abating: seek monies from overseas investors. JPMorgan Chase &Co’s chairman for south and south-east Asia, Kalpana Morparia, is advising policy makers to tweak bankruptcy rules to let foreign portfolio managers throw a lifeline to the troubled ...

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Danske CEO: ‘Email me’ as bank breaks with old norms

Bloomberg The new chief executive officer of Danske Bank A/S says he wants anyone with good ideas about how to run his firm to contact him. About 1 1/2 years after Danske was slammed by its financial regulator for having a culture that discouraged staff from speaking up, the bank is embracing transparency. Chris Vogelzang, a former ABN Amro banker ...

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