Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd and China UnionPay Co will soon unify the mobile codes that consumers scan to pay for purchases, granting the Chinese central bank-backed network a bigger foothold in a $27 trillion payments arena. Tencent and UnionPay have agreed to integrate their QR code systems, allowing their respective customers to transfer or spend money using the same smartphone …

Bloomberg A group of Barclays Plc shareholders have filed what they say is the first climate change resolution at a European bank, taking aim at the lender’s support of fossil fuels. Eleven institutional investors and more than 100 individuals urged Barclays to say how it will phase out financing energy firms that don’t align with the Paris Agreement climate goals, …

Bloomberg Thailand’s trade surplus with the US exceeded $20 billion, raising the chances it will be added to the US Treasury’s watchlist of currency manipulators. The surplus reached $20.05 billion in the 12 months through November, according to US Census Bureau data released in Washington. That exceeds the $20 billion limit the US Treasury has set for bilateral goods trade …