Bloomberg Chinese billionaire Jack Ma wants to pry the lid off China’s opaque charities. Ant Financial, the affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. he controls, is using the technology behind bitcoin to record transactions and improve the accountability of the country’s philanthropic organizations. The company began a tamper-proof ledger based on blockchain technology to record donations made by its ...

  Madrid / AFP Luis Lag is one of thousands of Spaniards who went abroad during the crisis. This “very good decision” allowed him to find a better job when he eventually came back. But many others who left their country in search of work are still unable to return home due to Spain’s sky-high unemployment. Before leaving in 2011, Lag ...

  London / AFP The billionaire owner of the Topshop clothing chain on Saturday accused a leading British MP of running a “kangaroo court” after the tycoon was slammed over the collapse of department store chain BHS. Philip Green wrote a letter to Frank Field, saying that he had led a campaign against him culminating in the publishing of a report ...