Bloomberg Standard Bank Group Ltd., Africa’s largest lender by assets, said it expects to report that 2015 profit increased by as much as 35 percent because of reduced losses at its international operations. Earnings per share excluding one-time items will range from 13.52 rand ($0.89) to 14.60 rand a share from 10.81 rand in 2014 when using international financial reporting …

Bloomberg Curtis Arledge, a vice chairman of Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and chief executive officer of its investment-management unit, is leaving to pursue other opportunities. Mitchell Harris, 61, will replace Arledge in the CEO position, effective immediately, New York-based BNY Mellon said Tuesday in a statement. Harris, who already oversaw the day-to-day management of the company’s investment businesses …

Bloomberg Bank of Montreal posted fiscal first-quarter profit that beat analysts’ estimates as contributions from its purchase of General Electric Co.’s transportation-finance business added to U.S. earnings. Net income for the period ended Jan. 31 climbed 6.8 percent to C$1.07 billion ($778 million), or C$1.58 a share, from C$1 billion, or C$1.46, a year earlier, Canada’s fourth-largest lender by assets …