Bloomberg Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown may not be selling his company shares anytime soon but that isn’t stopping other executives from cashing out gains after restrictions ended last month. CFO Mark Nelson is the latest executive to sell 70,000 shares for $5.7 million, reducing his stake in Beyond Meat by 16%, according to a filing. Chief People Officer Cari …

Bloomberg South African Airways (SAA) has started a restructuring process that could see the cash-strapped state-owned carrier cut its workforce by almost a fifth. As required by South African law, the airline has started talks with labour unions about its plans, which could affect 944 of its 5,149 employees, SAA said in an emailed statement. The proposed reorganisation includes all …

Bloomberg Malaysia’s aviation-safety downgrade makes Asia the region with the most markets where airlines are restricted from US airspace. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cut Malaysia to a Category 2 nation, banning the country’s carriers from setting up new flights to anywhere between New York and San Francisco. It cited deficiencies by the nation’s civil-aviation authority in areas ranging …

Bloomberg Oil retreated from a six-week high as ambiguous progress in US-China trade talks and worsening violence in Hong Kong damped sentiment across financial markets. Futures fell 1.2% in New York after President Donald Trump said that, while discussions with Beijing are moving along “nicely,” a deal hasn’t been reached and he won’t eliminate all tariffs. Meanwhile, Oman’s Oil Minister …

ABU DHABI / WAM The Middle East region is witnessing a significant push towards downstream projects to improve refinery output and capacity, according to Paul Carthy, Managing Director, Accenture Energy Industry Group, Middle East and Turkey. Speaking to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), on the sidelines of the Abu Dhabi Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (Adipec), which opened on Monday, Carthy …

ABU DHABI / WAM The value of humanitarian and relief programmes and development projects implemented by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), in Indonesia since 1993 amounts to over AED440.4 million. The ERC recently launched several new projects, in coordination with the UAE Embassy in Jakarta, as part of its development efforts in Indonesia, including the construction and maintenance of 42 …

Bloomberg At the height of the Danske Bank A/S dirty-money scandal, the lender started offering gold bars to wealthy clients to help them keep their fortunes hidden, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. The bank’s Estonian branch, which was already wiring billions of client dollars to offshore accounts, told a select group of customers, mostly from Russia, that they could …

Bloomberg Hong Kong regulators fined UBS Group AG 400 million Hong Kong dollars ($51 million) for overcharging global wealth management clients during almost a decade and flagged concerns about serious and systematic problems with the bank’s internal controls. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) found that UBS systematically overcharged private banking clients by manipulating the price on bond …

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG told UK regulators that it’s facing persistent issues in processing high-value payments in the country, a further sign of the IT problems plaguing the lender. The German lender met with Bank of England officials two weeks ago to explain disruptions of payments going through the BoE’s high-value payments system CHAPS on several days in October, according …

Bloomberg The African Development Bank (AfDB) will discuss 59 projects valued at $67 billion with dealmakers at its flagship investment conference. The deals, which span 29 countries, range from regional infrastructure development to investments in energy, financial services, urban housing and small business support, AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina said in an interview in Johannesburg. “The focus is really on the …