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Saudi seeks ways to boost 4% foreign stock ownership

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia is seeking ways to boost foreign investment in its bourse, almost two years after easing access to the one of the world’s most restricted exchanges. The Tadawul, as the market is known, will hold talks with companies already trading on other Gulf Cooperation Council exchanges for a cross-listing in the kingdom by 2018, Chief Executive Officer ...

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India identities at risk as Modi widens digital reach

  Bloomberg Shivam Shankar Singh woke last month to an e-mail from an Indian government department. It had a name, address, mobile phone number and bank account with a code for money transfers and investments made in a dairy farm. None of the details were his. The e-mail contained details submitted to a program that collects personal and biometric data, ...

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Asia economies hold trade pact talks after Trump dumps TPP

  Bloomberg Negotiators from 16 Asian countries are meeting in the Japanese port city of Kobe this week for talks on a regional trade pact seen as a rival to the Trans-Pacific Partnership rejected by US President Donald Trump. China is not part of the TPP but is playing a leading role in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, ...

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