Bloomberg ING Groep NV, the biggest Dutch lender, said first-quarter profit declined 29 percent on growing regulatory expenses and a loss at its financial-markets division. Net income dropped to 1.26 billion euros ($1.43 billion) from 1.77 billion euros a year earlier, the Amsterdam-based bank said in a statement. That compares with 1.24 billion euros, the average of seven analyst …

  Bloomberg The world’s dollar-dominated monetary order has serious instabilities that can best be fixed by central banks explicitly coordinating policy, Claudio Borio, the chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), argued in a new paper. “The Achilles heel of the international monetary and financial system is that it amplifies the key weakness of domestic monetary and financial …

Bloomberg Caixa Economica Federal, the state-controlled bank poised to become Brazil’s biggest lender, is boosting its credit portfolio while competitors not owned by the government pull back in response to the worst recession in a century. First-quarter lending at Caixa rose 9.2 percent to 684.2 billion reais ($194 billion) from a year earlier, the Brasilia-based bank said in an e-mailed …