Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. is considering postponing delivery of 10 Airbus SE A350 jetliners valued at about $3 billion, even as the carrier prepares for the first arrival of the new flagship aircraft, people familiar with the plans said. While Delta will take five A350-900s this year as planned, it wants to postpone deliveries slated for 2019 and …

  Bloomberg India’s financial regulator will gain new powers to order banks to clean up as much as $180 billion of soured loans on their balance sheets, which has been choking credit and weighing on growth. With the new rules bolstering its regulatory authority, Reserve Bank of India, is seeking to resolve the country’s 60 largest delinquent-loan cases in about …

  DUBAI / Reuters Standard Chartered’s banking business in the United Arab Emirates is performing much better than last year, helped by growing consumer confidence, the bank’s head of retail clients in the UAE said. Banks operating in the oil-producing states of the Gulf Cooperation Council reported sluggish growth in 2016, with some recording lower profits and higher provisions on …