IndusInd Bank is contemplating an entry into credit cards and personal loans in the next financial year, according to a senior executive. Read the original: IndusInd Bank may enter credit cards, personal loans (Business Standard India)

ROME, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Non-performing loans issued by Italian banks amounted to more than 59 billion euros in December, up 43 percent compared with December 2008, Italian bank’s association ABI said on Wednesday. Non-performing loans accounted for 2.02 percent of all loans in December, up from 1.97 percent the month before and 1.24 percent in December 2008, ABI said in its monthly report...

JEFFERSON CITY — State Treasurer Clint Zweifel announced more than $36 million in low-interest loans to small businesses in northeast Missouri. The state lets banks borrow money at a reduced interest rate, which is then passed on to small businesses that take out loans. The money is returned to the state within five years. Zweifel’s office said nearly 470 loans involving almost 400 jobs have...

Maputo — The Governor of the Bank of Mozambique, Ernesto Gove, on Wednesday warned that commercial banks who give clients other than exporters loans in foreign currency are contributing to the depreciation of the Mozambican currency, the metical. Read the rest here: Mozambique : Central Bank Warns against Foreign Currency Loans (AllAfrica.com)

AP File Photo Tom Wilson joined the Pistons in 1977. ClickOnDetroit.com reported this morning that Tom Wilson is no longer president and CEO of Palace Sports and Entertainment. Read this article: Online report: Tom Wilson out as CEO of Palace Sports and Entertainment (The Flint Journal)

Demonstrating the sheer money making power of the online gaming space, Irvine-based Blizzard Entertainment is making a $1.1M donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the nonprofit which helps to grant wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. According to the Make-A-Wish-Foundation, the donation is part of an effort run by Blizzard for two months–November and December–within...