Bloomberg Equity Group Holdings Plc’s profit soared in the first nine months of the year as the economy recovered and the Kenyan lender generated more income from business loans and the government securities. Net income from January through September grew by 78% to 26.3 billion shillings ($236 million) from a year earlier, the East African nation’s biggest bank by market ...

Bloomberg India’s banks need to raise funds from markets for their growth rather than depend on the government for recapitalisation, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. “Banks are today less burdened because books are cleaner,” Sitharaman said at the annual general meeting of the Indian Banks’ Association. “As a result they will able to go and raise money from markets. I ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. is selling $3 billion of bonds in the US investment-grade market, adding to a streak of debt transactions from big Wall Street banks including Citigroup Inc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Bank of America Corp. The biggest US bank is selling bonds in a single-tranche transaction, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. ...