Bloomberg ABN Amro Group NV, the state-controlled Dutch lender that returned to the stock market last year, is exploring a sale of its Asia private-banking business, people with knowledge of the matter said. The bank is working with a financial adviser and has reached out to potential buyers to gauge their interest, according to the people. The deliberations are …

  Bloomberg An HSBC Holdings Plc. executive and a former employee have been barred from the banking industry by the Federal Reserve as they face U.S. criminal charges that they committed fraud in conducting foreign-exchange trades. The Fed’s move follows the August indictments of Mark Johnson, who was HSBC’s head of foreign exchange cash trading, and Stuart Scott, the bank’s …

  Bloomberg Raiffeisen Bank International AG rose to the highest in about 10 months after announcing that it will go ahead with a plan to merge with its parent to address a capital shortfall at Austria’s biggest group of credit cooperatives. RBI climbed as much as 2.8 percent to 14.39 euros in Vienna, the highest since Dec. 9. The company …