Bloomberg Credit Agricole SA, France’s third-largest bank, said quarterly profit doubled from a year earlier as it booked gains from a reorganization and bond-trading income surged. The lender also pledged a stable or rising dividend for next year. Net income climbed to 1.86 billion euros ($2.1 billion) in the third quarter, the bank said in a statement on Tuesday, in …

Bloomberg The popularity of Malaysia’s ringgit and Indonesia’s rupiah among global investors has made them Southeast Asia’s most volatile currencies, just as the region heads for troubled waters. Already reeling from a commodity slump, debt in the two nations is seen by strategists as the most vulnerable to concerns surrounding the U.S. presidential election and the Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate …

  Bloomberg As Greek banks struggle to clean up their balance sheets of bad loans, investors have been left pondering another uncertainty: Who will lead the country’s biggest lenders? The General Council of Greece’s bank recapitalization fund, HFSF, discusses whether to call an extraordinary meeting of National Bank of Greece shareholders aimed at forcing the lender’s chief executive officer, Leonidas …