Bloomberg India’s beleaguered state-run lender Punjab National Bank (PNB) disclosed another incident of fraud amounting to $555 million, roughly one year after it suffered through the country’s costliest banking scandal. The new case relates to the non-performing assets of insolvent Indian firm Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd, PNB said in a filing. It reported the fraud to the Reserve Bank ...

Bloomberg The US said banks in the Democratic Republic of Congo must increase their efforts to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. US authorities recommended the lenders “put in place rigorous control and monitoring of the accounts of politically exposed people,” according to a statement issued by the Association of Congolese Banks . The association met officials from the ...

Bloomberg Trade tensions and uncertainty surrounding Brexit are raising economic risks for the euro region that may require central bank action, according to Societe Generale SA Chairman Lorenzo Bini Smaghi. “At some point the slowdown may reach bottom, and we want to have the monetary instruments in place to avoid that this becomes a recession,” he said in a Bloomberg ...