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Amazon vows ‘zero tolerance’ for graft after India probe report

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc stressed it has zero tolerance for graft and will investigate all allegations of corruption fully, responding to a report by an Indian news outlet that the US e-commerce giant has begun an internal investigation into claims of bribery. The US company started a probe into its legal representatives’ conduct in India, the Morning Context, a two-year-old media ...

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Alibaba’s Lazada hires Ant’s veteran

Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s Lazada Group is creating a new role to lead payments in Southeast Asia for the first time, and tapped a former Alipay executive for the position. Dayong Zhang, former general manager of Southeast Asia for Ant Group Co’s Alipay, will become Lazada’s head of payments, the company said, confirming a report by Bloomberg News. The ...

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Hong Kong struggling to lure SPACs with strict rulebook

Bloomberg Hong Kong could have a hard time attracting blank check companies after it proposed a high threshold to list in the city. In a consultation paper, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd proposed that special purpose acquisition companies would need to raise at least HK$1 billion ($128 million) when listing and that retail investors would be barred from participating. ...

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