Bloomberg Making money from lending remains a tough task for Japan’s biggest banks. Profit at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. probably fell about 20 percent last quarter as negative interest rates pressured loan income at home and the stronger yen dented earnings abroad, according to analysts surveyed before results due Monday. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial …

Bloomberg Australian policy makers were publicly frustrated by the currency’s stubborn strength when commodities tumbled earlier this decade. Now they’re conspicuously quiet as it fails to keep pace with resurgent resource prices. Since the end of June, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s real effective exchange rate for the Aussie has risen 4 percent, while Westpac Banking Corp.’s Australian export commodity index …

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer John Cryan’s troubles range from the company’s mounting legal costs to stricter regulation that’s eroding returns. And there’s at least one challenge he shares with his German rivals: Europe’s most competitive market. “Deutsche Bank still has a lot to deal with, but the German market as a whole is pretty rotten,” said …