Bloomberg The UK’s withdrawal from the European Union is complicating the bloc’s fight against money laundering in the financial system, according to EU authorities. Firms relocating from Britain could overwhelm the national bodies that supervise anti-money laundering systems, the three EU financial regulators said in a joint report. A no-deal Brexit would make things even more difficult by disrupting the …

Bloomberg Vista Equity Partners is considering the potential sale of a stake in Finastra in a deal that could value the financial technology company at more than $10 billion including debt, people familiar with the matter said. Billionaire Robert F Smith’s buyout firm is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc to gauge interest from potential buyers, according to the people, …

Bloomberg Colombia’s central bank isn’t discussing taking measures to ease declines in the peso, even as the currency hit a record-low earlier this week, according to one member of the monetary policy committee. The peso has plunged 7.5 percent in the past three months, making it the worst performing emerging market currency after the Argentine peso, amid slowing global growth, …

Bloomberg US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc has a new banking partner in Britain that will provide real-time payments for customers, three months after losing the service when it broke with Barclays Plc. The San Francisco-based firm, which lost its Barclays account in July, is now a client of ClearBank, a lender that started operations in 2017, according to a person …

Bloomberg Now that Microsoft has restored some of its former glory, the company is going for an even more unlikely comeback: rewriting the history of its much-maligned phone business. Three years after retreating from the smartphone business, Microsoft took the wraps off the Surface Duo, a dual-screened handheld computing device coming in time for Christmas 2020. Yes, it makes phone …

Bloomberg A British company says it’s building the world’s first “vertiport” for electric aircraft in Singapore, an early step towards a global network for flying taxis. Essex-based Skyports Ltd plans to show off the vertical take-off and landing station at Marina Bay during the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress from October 21-25. Germany’s Volocopter GmbH will bring along its electric …

Bloomberg One of Huawei Technologies Co’s biggest trade war headaches has just gotten worse, as an unofficial workaround to the Trump administration ban on using Google apps and services has been quashed. Security researcher John Wu published an illuminating post that explained how users of Huawei’s Mate 30 Pro were able to manually download and install Google apps, despite a …

Bloomberg Ethiopian Airlines Group is close to agreeing a deal with Airbus SE for as many as 20 narrow-body A220 planes worth more than $1.6 billion, reviving an earlier plan after a spell using larger Boeing Co 737s. Africa’s biggest and most consistently profitable carrier is in late-stage talks about the purchase of the 100-seater aircraft, which should be completed …

Bloomberg PT Bukalapak.com raised capital from investors including Indonesian media giant Emtek and South Korea’s Shinhan Financial Group Co, a round of funding that valued the online marketplace at more than $2.5 billion. The Jakarta-based startup, which last month said it would cut about 10 percent of its workforce to focus on profitability, announced the transaction but wouldn’t provide more …

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc is escalating efforts to recruit pilots with new financial perks and faster career advancement as the carrier faces the retirement of almost half its aviators over the next decade. The programme, dubbed Aviate, is designed to attract more staff for regional airlines that fly for United, which will then look to field a large portion …