Bloomberg Technology companies and service providers are questioning key parts of Hong Kong’s plan to allow dual-class shares, just as firms including Xiaomi Corp. and Tencent Music Entertainment Group are considering going public. Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. wants to change its rules so that company founders can stay in control after their firms list, but the proposals may ...

Bloomberg Siemens AG will press ahead with an initial public offering of its health-care unit that could value it between 26 billion euros ($32 billion) and 31 billion euros as Chief Executive Officer Joe Kaeser unloads another key business at Europe’s largest engineering company. The IPO of a 15 percent stake in Siemens Healthineers is planned for March 16, the ...

Bloomberg Axa SA agreed to buy XL Group Ltd. for $15.3 billion in cash, the biggest-ever European acquisition of a US insurer, sending its shares plunging. The French firm fell the most since June 2016, with analyst Daniel Bischof of Baader Helvea AG saying the deal has a sound logic but the price is at the upper end of expectations. ...