The company had a gain of $8.1 million, or 9 cents a share, from the partial reversal of a reserve set aside for payment guarantees to data providers of its former Telerate unit, now owned by Bridge Information Systems.
An extra £500m is being set aside for payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling, taking this total to £4.3bn, though McEwan said he believed that this would be the bank's last provision for this "long, tortuous" saga.
In addition to the lack of an admission of wrongdoing in the New Jersey case, Judge Bumb said the proposed settlement bothered her because it contained a "carve out" allowing money set aside for payment of the fine to be used to pay the company's legal fees.
In February, it was announced that more than 1,000 council jobs would be lost in the next three years because Kirklees Council must cut £69m from its budget, but the council's budget plan for 2015-18 includes money set aside for payment of the living wage.
The amount you set aside for debt payment each month must be more than the total minimum payments due.
It had set aside the first payment, of another $4.4 million, in this year's budget.
This would come in a separate appropriation each year from the state's general fund that would be set aside for the payment of the principle and interest.
So far, $145 million has been spent or set aside for those payments.
The authority has already authorized $2.7 billion in borrowing, including $800 million to be set aside for interest payments.
The finance director, George Culmer, was careful not to rule out any further PPI charges and pointed out the bank still had £1.7bn set aside for compensation payments.
BP has set aside $42 billion for payments, much of which has come from divestments over the last three years, including the disposal of its stake in a Russian affiliate, TNK-BP.
