BLOOMBERG Alaska Airlines will “initiate and enhance” its own quality control checks on the production of its planes, in addition to Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) review and oversight of the process after an accident on a Boeing Co 737 Max 9 jet this month. The carrier said it met with Boeing’s chief executive officer and leadership team in recent days …

BLOOMBERG Societe Generale SA’s employees have indicated in a poll that their faith in decisions taken by Chief Executive Officer Slawomir Krupa and his lieutenants is shrinking, potentially making it harder for him to implement a strategy that so far has failed to convince investors. The share of staffers who say they trust the choices made by SocGen’s top management …

BLOOMBERG Deutsche Bank AG has recently stepped up internal deliberations about the possibility of takeovers involving European lenders including Commerzbank AG and ABN Amro Bank NV, as CEO Christian Sewing explores ways to boost his lender’s valuation. Scenarios that Sewing has discussed over the past months have revolved around a handful of European banks with its German rival and the …