Bloomberg Danske Bank A/S’s legal jeopardy is deepening. Prosecutors in Denmark said they had opened a criminal investigation into the bank, acting on “multiple complaints” that the Estonian unit of the country’s biggest lender was used to funnel billions of kroner of dirty money. The prosecutors said that they had been following “the case very closely” for a long period ...

Bloomberg Nedbank Group Ltd. forecast that interest-earning banking assets will increase at a rate below that of nominal growth in South Africa’s gross domestic product, after earlier predicting it will be in line with the economy’s expansion. The lender’s credit-loss ratio, which rose 6 basis points to 53 basis points, will also increase slightly above the level achieved in 2017 ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc.’s shares rose on optimism that the company is forging deeper relationships with banks to offer customer-service products via its Messenger chat application, a business that could boost engagement as growth slows on its main social network. Facebook has for years worked to make Messenger a natural place for consumers to communicate with businesses, aiming to replace email. ...