Bloomberg Bain Capital has picked the top arrangers for Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd’s initial public offering, which could be one of the country’s biggest listings this year, according to a person familiar with the matter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc, UBS Group AG and Barrenjoey Capital Partners Pty Ltd have been selected as lead managers for the share sale, …

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG returned to normal flight operations after widespread software problems linked to damaged Deutsche Telekom AG broadband cables grounded hundreds of planes. The situation at Lufthansa’s main base in Frankfurt was normalising, a spokesman said. Lufthansa expected the IT issues that affected systems including check-in operations to be fully resolved. Still, more travel disruption is around the …

  Bloomberg Brazilian retailer Americanas SA appointed its third Chief Executive Officer in six weeks as it looks to navigate the firm through bankruptcy and continue operations while negotiating a hefty debt load. The Americanas board named Leonardo Coelho Pereira to the top job at Americanas, according to a filing. He replaces Joao Guerra who will return to his duties …

  Bloomberg Flybe Group Plc the distressed British carrier, is to be wound down after attempts to sell the struggling business failed. The regional airline had already ceased operations and cancelled all of its flights in January after collapsing into administration, a form of insolvency proceedings. It was the second failure for Flybe which previously halted operations in 2020 when …

  Bloomberg Anta Sports Products Ltd sank by the most in almost four months after the entry of a sizable stake in Hong Kong’s clearing system stoked speculation of a sale by a key shareholder. Shares of the Chinese sportswear maker slumped as much as 8% in Hong Kong, the most since October 24. The move came after exchange data …

Bloomberg The pace of decline in Hong Kong’s population abated as the city moved to reopen after years of pandemic isolation. The city’s population fell by a net 12,900 people in the second half of 2022, down from a decrease of 55,400 in the first six months, according to government data. The previously announced population drop of 121,500 in the …

  Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India published a list of 32 entities, including Alphabet Inc’s Google Pay, Amazon.com Inc’s Amazon Pay and Reliance Payment Solutions Ltd, that are allowed to act as online payment aggregators. The names were released for “disseminating information and ensuring greater transparency,” the central bank said on its website. Other approved entities include Zomato Payments …

  Bloomberg China’s home prices steadied in January, ending a 16-month decline after the government expanded stimulus policies for the sector. New-home prices in 70 cities, excluding state-subsidised housing, remained unchanged, compared with a 0.25% decline in December, National Bureau of Statistics figures showed. In the secondary market, existing-home prices dropped 0.28%, smaller than the 0.41% decline in the previous …

  Bloomberg Japan’s trade deficit surged to a record in January, as one-off factors including the lunar new year holidays dragged on exports amid a backdrop of a slowing global economy. The trade gap jumped to Â¥3.5 trillion ($26.1 billion) from Â¥1.45 trillion in December, topping Â¥3 trillion for the first time in comparable data going back the late 1970s, …

  Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co joined the latest funding round for Swedish fertility tracking app Natural Cycles as lead investor, seeking to introduce the female-health technology to its Galaxy series smartwatches. The Natural Cycles app, which monitors body temperature to gauge fertility, in 2018 became the first contraceptive of its kind to be approved by the US Food and Drug …