Bloomberg Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc is considering selling its US banking arm, as consolidation heats up in the American financial industry. The Japanese lender is working with an adviser to explore options for MUFG Union Bank NA, said the people, who asked to not be identified because the matter isn’t public. Mitsubishi UFJ has held some informal discussions with …

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to buy GreenSky Inc for about $2.24 billion, adding to its Marcus consumer-banking platform a company that offers payment plans to customers with home-improvement projects or health-care needs. The New York-based bank will pay 0.03 share of its common stock for each share of Atlanta-based GreenSky, which works out to about $12.11 a share, …

Bloomberg A veteran banker at Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd said that strains in India’s bond market are at the highest she’s seen in her two-decade career. The flood of cash that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has pumped into the market amid the pandemic has headed into shorter notes with top ratings, while there’s little demand for weaker credit …