AP India’s government said on Tuesday it will use indelible ink to mark the fingers of people swapping scrapped currency notes at banks as authorities struggle to deal with the bedlam caused by the sudden demonetizing of the country’s highest-denomination bills. India announced a week ago that it was withdrawing 500 and 1,000 rupee notes as legal tender to …

  Bloomberg Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA will offer a voluntary debt-for-equity swap on 4.29 billion euros ($4.6 billion) of subordinated securities as part of its effort to reduce the amount of stock the struggling Italian lender would need to sell in its turnaround plan. The bank is offering shares in exchange for Tier 1 securities and Tier …

  Bloomberg UniCredit SpA, Italy’s biggest bank by market value, climbed in Milan trading after news agency Ansa reported talk of a combination with France’s Societe Generale SA. UniCredit rose as much as 5.8 percent and was up 2.5 percent at 2.35 euros as of 9:57 a.m. Societe Generale was trading 1.4 percent higher at 40.35 euros. The stock has …