Bloomberg Philippine banks will recover faster from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic than they did from the Asian financial crisis due to record-low interest rates, higher capital and a stable economy, the head of the nation’s bankers group said. Lenders in the Southeast Asian nation may bounce back in three to four years — about half the time it …

Bloomberg Bond traders in India are bracing for more turmoil as the central bank signals its intention to keep lifting money-market rates. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) offered a cutoff yield of 3.55% for a cash-draining operation, higher than traders had expected and a full 20 basis points above the lower boundary of its interest-rate corridor. “Future operations may …

Bloomberg HDFC Bank Ltd., India’s largest private lender by assets, posted third-quarter profit that beat analyst expectations after earnings were buoyed by strong loan growth. Shares jumped. Net income was 87.6 billion rupees ($1.2 billion) in the three months through December compared with 74.2 billion rupees a year earlier, exchange filings showed. That beat the average estimate of 76.4 billion …