Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. (BofA) has bought its biggest distressed asset in India, adding to a growing trend of foreign investors diving deeper into the country’s massive pile of bad debt. A group of investors led by the US bank have paid 33 billion rupees ($479 million) for soured loans of a beleaguered Indian maker of cast iron pipes, ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) is approaching the point where it needs to decide whether if negative interest rates are more problem than solution. Since officials pushed back plans to tighten policy, warnings have increased that the potency of a key instrument used to rekindle growth in the 19-nation bloc is diminishing the longer it remains in place. France’s Francois ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG is adding tech bankers ahead of what promises to be a busy year for initial public offerings and technology banking transactions. The Zurich-based bank hired Bob Casey and Robert Jackman to join its US technology investment banking team, according to a memo sent by Jason Auerbach, UBS’s head of technology banking for the Americas. They are ...