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Bloomberg European Central Bank policy maker Yves Mersch called on Europe to develop its own global card payment services to compete with international peers and as a defense against any further escalation in geopolitical tension. Noting the dominance of California-based PayPal for online payments, and the services offered by Alphabet, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, Mersch warned that European providers such …

Bloomberg A sustained weakness in the rupee may push the Reserve Bank of India to further tighten monetary policy, perhaps as early as next month, JPMorgan Chase and Co.’s chief India economist Sajjid Chinoy said. “The RBI meeting becomes an interesting dilemma,” Chinoy told Bloomberg Television in an interview, adding that after two interest rate hikes since June, he, like …

Bloomberg Pratt & Whitney is investigating incidents of excessive vibration in its engines that power Airbus SE’s A320neo aircraft, the latest in a series of problems that have plagued the new turbine, according to people familiar with the matter. The US manufacturer, a unit of Farmington, Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp., has yet to identify the cause and is assessing if …

Bloomberg AirAsia Group Bhd.’s planned foray into China for a wider regional footprint suffered a setback after Southeast Asia’s largest budget airline failed to secure a deal with its local partners to tap the world’s second-biggest aviation market. A preliminary agreement signed last year for a venture with China Everbright Group and the Henan government has lapsed and won’t be …

Bloomberg Airbus SE said it will help Chinese authorities investigate an incident in Shenzhen this week, when the crew of an A320 commercial jet requested emergency landing after reporting troubles, and later found the two nose wheels missing. Capital Airlines flight JD5759 from Beijing, with 166 aboard, encountered severe wind shear while attempting to land in Macau on Aug. 28, …

Bloomberg Richard Liu built an e-commerce giant in China by tapping into the nation’s appetite for technology. As his JD.com Inc. sets its sights on global expansion, he’s turning to others for help: Google and Walmart Inc. Just a few months after Google bought a $550 million stake in JD, Liu said he’s in the early stages of strategic planning …

Bloomberg OK, Wall Street, back to work. The stock market crash you feared while guiltily snoozing through August on the beach may not have materialised but there are a few things you need to know about. First the good news. While firms from Goldman Sachs to Voya Asset Management warned everyone in July about the risk of late-summer turbulence and …

Bloomberg Russia kept pumping oil near post-Soviet records last month as it reaped benefits from a deal with OPEC easing output caps and oil prices at an all-time high in rubles. The nation extracted an average of 11.21 million barrels of crude per day in August, according to data emailed by the Russian Energy Ministry’s CDU-TEK unit. Volumes were little …

Bloomberg Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. revealed how much each of its top executives and founders control of its parent company offering a rare glimpse into the ownership structure of one of the world’s largest energy traders. In an application seeking permission for a US subsidiary to export electricity to Mexico, Mercuria included a detailed list of its shareholders. The obscure …

Bloomberg UK investment firm Wren House Infrastructure Management is considering buying the remaining 70 percent of Spain’s Global Power Generation SA that it doesn’t already own, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The potential deal could be valued at more than $1 billion, the people said, declining to be identified as the deliberations are confidential. London-based Wren House …