Bloomberg Go-Jek, Indonesia’s biggest ride-hailing service, agreed to acquire three local financial-technology companies, underscoring its ambition to become the dominant player in the country’s nascent digital-payments industry. The deals bring together Kartuku, Indonesia’s largest offline payments-processing company; Midtrans, the nation’s top online-payment gateway; and Mapan, a local community-based saving and lending network, Go-Jek said. Go-Jek and the three companies now ...

Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy a 5 percent stake in China’s Yonghui Superstores Co. for about $639 million, joining rival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in teaming up with a bricks-and-mortar retailer. Shenzhen-based Tencent is buying about 478.5 million shares from existing shareholders at 8.81 yuan apiece, Yonghui said in a filing to the Shanghai stock exchange. The price ...

Bloomberg The first phase of Brexit talks is done. Now comes the hard part. UK Prime Minister Theresa May has secured agreement from the European Union to move on from discussing the divorce terms to mapping out a plan for the future trade relationship. Before that, she wants to nail down a transition deal as soon as possible. This is ...