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Credit Suisse resolves US mortgage probe for $5.3bn

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG and the Justice Department completed a $5.3 billion agreement to settle a US investigation into the bank’s sales of toxic mortgage debt before the financial crisis. Credit Suisse will pay a $2.5 billion civil penalty and $2.8 billion in consumer relief, to be paid over five years after the settlement, the Justice Department said ...

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Citigroup trading revenue climbs 31 percent

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. reported fourth-quarter profit that surpassed analysts’ estimates as trading revenue jumped 31 percent, more than the bank had forecast last month. Net income rose 7.1 percent to $3.57 billion, or $1.14 a share, from $3.34 billion, or $1.02, a year earlier, the New York-based company said Wednesday in a statement. The average estimate of 25 analysts ...

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SBI head lays out deposit puzzle faced by India’s biggest lender

  Bloomberg Analysts scratching their heads over the impact on India’s banks of the country’s move to ban high-value notes have every right to be puzzled, as estimates offered by the chairman of State Bank of India indicate. The bank could retain anything from 15 percent to 40 percent of the deposit boost it received after the government withdrew about ...

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