Bloomberg American International Group Inc. suffered losses last year in investment portfolios tied to death-benefits bets and energy bonds. Impairments on so-called life settlements surged to $540 million in 2015 from $201 million a year earlier, according to a regulatory filing. The contracts involve insurance policies that are purchased on the secondary market; AIG pays premiums until the covered person …

Beijing / Bloomberg The head of China’s securities regulator has been removed from his post after last year’s $5 trillion stock-market bust, an unprecedented government rescue and a renewed crisis as plunging Chinese equities last month reverberated around the world. Xiao Gang, 57, a former head of Bank of China Ltd., had been chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission …

MADRID / AFP Six officials of Chinese megabank ICBC have been placed in detention by Spanish authorities on suspicion of laundering tens of millions of euros, judicial sources said. They were detained overnight and while three of them can be freed if they post bail of 100,000 euros ($111,000) each, the others will remain in custody for the time being, …