Bloomberg ICICI Securities Ltd., a unit of India’s largest private-sector lender by assets, has picked arrangers for an initial public offering that could value the company at more than 200 billion rupees ($3.1 billion), people familiar with the matter said. The brokerage arm of ICICI Bank Ltd. selected Bank of America Corp (BofA) and Citigroup Inc. to advise on the …

Bloomberg The financial industries of Sweden and Denmark were quick to criticise the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s completed framework, arguing it will hit Scandinavian lenders too hard. “The Basel standards will, if they are fully implemented in the EU and Sweden, have large negative effects for Swedish banks, their clients and the Swedish economy,” Hans Lindberg, the head of …

Bloomberg In just over half a year, Danske Bank A/S has attracted 11,500 clients to an investment service provided by a robot. Denmark’s biggest financial firm now hopes the project will help it expand its wealth management operations. The robot is called June. It targets retail clients and small businesses that normally wouldn’t have the resources to work out what …