Bloomberg Lloyds Banking Group Plc may set aside hundreds of millions of pounds in the second quarter to compensate customers improperly sold payment protection insurance as claims continue to flood in. The redress costs will add to about 18 billion pounds ($23 billion) already booked by Britain’s biggest mortgage lender since the start of the scandal. Analysts at Morgan Stanley …

Bloomberg The European Union’s bank-failure rules are forcing Austria’s Volksbanken to open up the lending tap, a strategy reminiscent of the one that nearly brought down the cooperative group a few years ago. The irony has arisen because the EU requires banks to have sufficient loss-absorbing liabilities on their books to cover the costs of their restructuring and refinancing in …

Bloomberg China’s banks are being offered cash and given instructions to lend more, as regulators attempt to support a slowing economy. The banking and insurance regulator has asked financial institutions to “earnestly implement” plans to help reduce financing costs for small firms, saying that big lenders should “take the lead”, according to a statement posted on its website. Meanwhile, the …