Bloomberg Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd posted an increase in first-quarter profit buoyed by a jump in income from non-lending businesses, including fees for services, even as its bad loan ratio widened because of a deadly second wave of Covid-19 infections during the period. Net income at India’s fourth-largest private lender was 16.42 billion rupees ($220 million), a 32% jump from ...

Bloomberg NatWest Group Plc is set to take a minority stake in Permanent TSB Group Holdings Plc as part of a potential deal to offload $8.9 billion of assets to the Irish lender. The two banks signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to work together on an agreement that would see Permanent TSB take over much of NatWest’s Ulster Bank ...

Bloomberg Three years after the world learned of Danske Bank’s central role in one of Europe’s biggest money-laundering scandals, the cost of that stunning failure of governance is still palpable. Denmark’s biggest bank, once among the Nordic region’s most reputable companies, has yet to fully resurrect itself from a dirty money affair that’s made it the target of ongoing criminal ...