Bloomberg Temasek Holdings Pte bought shares in ICICI Bank Ltd., India’s largest private-sector lender by assets, as the nation’s central bank pushes lenders to clean up bad debts that have weighed on earnings. The Singapore state-owned investor bought 2.55 million American depositary receipts of ICICI in the second quarter, worth $18 million at the end of June, according to …

  STOCKHOLM / Bloomberg Svenska Handelsbanken AB removed its chief executive officer after less than 18 months and said the top role at the bank has become so complex that a traditional management profile was no longer adequate. Frank Vang-Jensen, a 48-year-old who was only appointed to the role of CEO in March last year, is being replaced by Anders …

  Bloomberg China’s central bank urged investors not to focus too much on short-term concerns and said the diverging pace of credit expansion doesn’t mean monetary policy is losing steam. July credit growth slowing to a two-year low was a distortion and the reports for August and September will show it rebounding, the People’s Bank of China (PBC) said in …