Bloomberg The Bank of England is piloting anonymous job applications to promote diversity. The more than three-century old central bank only appointed its first female senior official in 1988, according to a speech by Chief Operating Officer Joanna Place at an event in London. It’s one of a handful of new measures to boost the proportion of women at that …

Bloomberg Kenya Airways Plc plans to add as many as 20 new destinations in Africa, Europe and Asia in the next five years, Chief Executive Officer Sebastian Mikosz said. The route-network expansion will help sub-Saharan Africa’s third-biggest carrier, in the midst of a turnaround programme after a record loss in 2016, return to profit. The airline reported a 6.1 billion-shilling …

Bloomberg Airbus SE has lost a contest with Boeing Co. to sell wide-body jets to American Airlines Group Inc., dealing a blow to the European planemaker’s efforts to boost A330neo orders in the world’s biggest aviation market. Talks with American over the re-engined model have ended, Airbus said in response to questions from Bloomberg, saying it was unwilling to match …