Bloomberg Standard Chartered Plc, the London-based bank that generates most of its income from Asia, is seeking to double operating profit at its Pakistan unit within five years as the country’s economy grows and banks churn out more loans. The bank is targeting an advance to deposit ratio of at least 45 percent in 12 months from 35 percent ...

  Bloomberg June is out. July might be too soon. The Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate increase is coming, but even September isn’t a sure bet. That’s the message investors and economists are taking from Chair Janet Yellen’s remarks. Her comments were the last the public will hear from a Fed official before the central bank’s policy-setting meeting next week. In ...

  BLOOMBERG Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer John Cryan said Germany’s largest lender is abandoning plans for a new digital bank in the US, led by Henry Ritchotte, just months after it was announced. While the team under Ritchotte developed an “excellent blueprint” for the service in the US, Deutsche Bank decided that the project would “divert resources from ...