Bloomberg Xu Li’s software scans more faces than maybe any on earth. He has the Chinese police to thank. Xu runs SenseTime Group Ltd., which makes artificial intelligence (AI) software that recognizes objects and faces, and counts China’s biggest smartphone brands as customers. In July, SenseTime raised $410 million, a sum it said was the largest single round for an ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its credit line to Brazil’s Nubank, a four-year-old credit-card company that charges no fees and is growing as much as 10 percent a month. Nubank can now borrow as much as $144 million for about two years to finance its revolving credit portfolio, up from 375 million reais, David Velez, the Sao Paulo-based company’s ...

Reuters Egypt’s central bank kept its key interest rates unchanged at a monetary policy committee meeting, it said in a statement, after it had raised them by a total of 400 basis points in the previous two meetings. The bank has raised key interest rates by a total of 700 basis points, or 7 percentage points, since it floated the ...