Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. plans to announce within days that it will start a mobile digital payments service in Japan by the end of 2018 as billionaire founder Masayoshi Son seeks to expand in the sector, people familiar with the matter said. The service, a collaboration with Indian startup Paytm, will make extensive use of artificial intelligence for mobile payments ...

Bloomberg As investors sell Chinese health-care stocks in the wake of a vaccine scandal, one top-performing fund manager sees a chance to buy more. The broad selloff in the sector will likely be temporary as investors overreacted and “wrongly implicated” many stocks, said Wang Chaowei, who manages 866 million yuan ($127 million) for CPIC Fund Management Co. One of his ...

Bloomberg China pledged to invest $14.7 billion in South Africa and grant loans to its state power utility and logistics company as the two nations seek to strengthen economic ties and increase trade. The rand gained. The commitment follows similar promises from Saudi Arabia and the UAE and bolsters President Cyril Ramaphosa’s campaign to lure $100 billion in investment to ...