Bloomberg McDonald’s Corp.’s South Korean unit is cooperating with government authorities investigating a possible food-contamination case that prompted the company to suspend sales of its bulgogi burger. South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has started a probe into the cause behind some customers taking ill after consuming food at a McDonald’s restaurant in Jeonju, located south of Seoul, …

Bloomberg China’s central bank said initial coin offerings are illegal and asked all related fundraising activity to be halted immediately, issuing the strongest regulatory challenge so far to the burgeoning market for digital token sales. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said on its website that it had completed investigations into ICOs, and will strictly punish offerings in the future …

Bloomberg UniCredit SpA Chief Executive Officer Jean Pierre Mustier is willing to invest more money in Turkish venture Yapi & Kredi Bankasi AS as he sees the presence in central and eastern Europe as “a growth engine” for Italy’s biggest bank. “ Yapi Kredi is growing and so growth means that there is an organic capital generation,” Mustier told Bloomberg …