Bloomberg Just as India’s banks emerge from under a pile of bad loans to large energy, steel and other industrial companies, they are facing a new reckoning from the accelerating crisis in the country’s shadow banking sector. A year after a series of defaults by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd. forced the government to intervene and exposed weaknesses in ...

Bloomberg The two biggest Nordic banks have both recently beefed up their compliance units significantly. Both say the extra headcount is temporary. Nordea Bank Abp has hundreds of employees who scrutinise billions of transactions in order to catch anything that looks potentially criminal. It’s a costly, inefficient system that Mikael Bjertrup, head of the bank’s financial crime prevention unit, plans ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is finally embracing its status as a private equity giant. The firm’s top executives in recent months have laid out plans to raise more client funds for private investing and rely less on its own balance sheet. As part of that effort, the bank is looking to consolidate the investing activities of multiple units across ...