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Bloomberg A record number of initial public offerings in the Nordic region is benefiting some banks more than others. Among non-Nordic banks, no one’s doing better than Goldman Sachs Group Inc., according to data compiled by Bloomberg on firms advising on the region’s IPOs. Morgan Stanley tops the rankings, when all equity sales are taken into account. But when it ...

Bloomberg A Bank of England (BOE) note with a face value of 10 pounds ($13) has sold for more than 700-times that amount at auction as Britain’s obsession with collectible new note issues shows no sign of abating. The tenner, as the bills are known in the UK, has the serial number AA01 000010 and sold for 7,200 pounds — ...

Bloomberg Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) Chairman Howard Davies said details of a post-Brexit transitional deal with the European Union need to be outlined in the next five months to stop more financial-services jobs from leaving London. “If there are no details by the first quarter of next year, the number of moves of people out of London ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwe’s money shortage has seen card and mobile-money payments eclipse cash sales at the nation’s retailers, throttling suppliers’ stock of hard currency needed to put goods on shelves and forcing up food prices. Cash transactions have shrunk to about 2 percent of daily takings across the 33-store Spar Zimbabwe chain, from 60 percent a year ago, Managing Director Terence ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. is wrapping up one of its worst years ever by passing a baton to Washington’s new favourite financial-industry villain: Equifax Inc. Executives from both companies will travel to Capitol Hill this week to testify in overlapping hearings about efforts to aid customers stung by lapses at their firms. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co. is buying drone pioneer Aurora Flight Sciences Corp., gaining a portfolio of futuristic technology such as unmanned air taxis that may someday navigate city skies for Uber Technologies Inc. With the acquisition, Boeing is betting that smarter airplanes will dominate flying, with computer algorithms and artificial intelligence playing an increasingly important role in the cockpit. Aurora is ...

Bloomberg The company once known as the Netflix of snacks looks a bit more like Blockbuster video these days—but not in a bad way. Graze, which started selling snack boxes via online subscriptions in the UK a few years back, is for the first time generating a majority of its sales through physical stores—a reminder that food is still almost ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary made a personal pledge to improve pay and career prospects for the budget carrier’s 4,200 pilots amid concerns about a rebellion in the aftermath of its cancellation fiasco. O’Leary, often dismissive of pilot demands, is seeking to soothe disgruntled cockpit crew with wage increases of as much as $11,700 and loyalty ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc is counting on the failure of three rival carriers to help accelerate its expansion into major European markets, bringing a silver lining to a fare war that depressed full-year earnings. The impact of a weaker pound should also ease, while fuel costs are set to decline, Luton, England-based EasyJet said. UK rival Monarch Airlines Ltd., its neighbour ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Global digital transformation enabler, SAP, announced on Saturday at GITEX Technology Week 2017 that the Internet of Things (IoT) will catalyze the Middle East’s $70 billion digital contribution to GDP. According to McKinsey, the UAE contribution to that figure is $15 billion. Governments across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southwest Asia are increasingly driving innovative ...