Bloomberg Australia’s securities regulator will embed supervisors in the big-four banks in a push to get tough on corporate misbehaviour after a string of scandals. Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) staff will be placed inside Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Westpac Banking Corp., National Australia Bank Ltd., Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. and embattled wealth manager AMP Ltd. …

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 …