Bloomberg ABN Amro Group NV reported a 13 percent decline in profit after its first full quarter as a listed company coincided with a market rout, crimping revenue from fees and commissions, and said it is considering additional cost cuts. Net income fell to €475 million ($541 million) from €543 million a year ago, the state-controlled Dutch lender said ...

Bloomberg While central bankers in Japan, Europe and US have struggled in recent years to stoke credit growth even as they grew their balance sheets to unprecedented size, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is succeeding, with a very different approach. For all the Communist Party’s rhetoric about giving a decisive role to markets, China’s financial system remains dominated by ...

  Bloomberg A group of Gol Linhas Aereas SA’s bondholders views the Brazilian airline’s debt restructuring proposal as unfair and has hired US investment bank Houlihan Lokey Inc. to negotiate with the company, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The investor group, representing owners of more than 20 percent of Gol’s dollar notes, sees the plan ...