Bloomberg India’s central bank plans to use insolvency laws against more corporate defaulters to speed up resolution of the country’s bad loans that have swelled to $180 billion. “The clock’s already ticking — some cases are already before the National Company Law Tribune,” said Sanjeev Sanyal, principal economic adviser to the finance ministry. “More lists will be out in the …

Bloomberg Italian finance officials and the European Commission are racing to find a solution for two troubled banks in the northern Veneto region that have weighed on the nation’s financial system. Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said the matter of Veneto Banca SpA and Banca Popolare di Vicenza is being worked on “actively,” without offering details. European Commission Vice President …

Bloomberg Nordic banks, long considered among the safest in the world, are losing their appeal as an investment target as lenders further south start to look more attractive, according to PineBridge Investments, a multi-asset manager that oversees about $85 billion. Graeme Bencke, the portfolio manager who heads equity strategy at PineBridge in London, says the circumstances that made banks in …