Bloomberg The African Development Bank (AfDB) seeks investments from global pensions and commercial financiers to help fund the continent’s infrastructure gap of as much as $170 billion a year. The Abidjan-based lender is launching its Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg. The forum will host its first meeting in November in South Africa’s commercial hub and will have “no speeches,” but ...

Bloomberg Lloyds Banking Group Plc is “surprised” and “disappointed” by Standard Life Aberdeen Plc’s decision to challenge the bank’s plan to pull 109 billion pounds ($148 billion) from the asset manager, the lender said in a statement. Lloyds gave notice in February that it planned to end the mandate after the merger of Aberdeen and Standard Life made the combined ...

Bloomberg ICICI Bank Ltd., India’s second-largest private sector lender by assets, was Asia’s best-performing bank stock on Tuesday after its top official said bad-loan ratios will improve. ICICI jumped 7.1 percent, set for the biggest gain since October 25, and was the top stock on Bloomberg’s Asia Pacific Banks Index. Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar, who has been assuring investors ...