Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG appointed managing director Jonathon Kaufman as the head of its new global infrastructure, utility and renewables group. “Infrastructure was the fastest-growing asset class in 2019, raising over $90 billion, and continues to be of strategic importance,” investment-banking chief David Miller, and Malcolm Price, who oversees the new group as well as financial sponsors and leveraged …

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, …