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  Bloomberg Safaricom Ltd, East Africa’s biggest mobile-phone company, would have to reconsider future investment in Kenya if proposals to break up the company are implemented, the head of mobile money at parent Vodafone Plc said. The company 40 percent owned by Newbury, England-based Vodafone was found to be Kenya’s dominant carrier in a draft report by U.K.-based advisory group ...

  Emirates Business Souqplace.com, the first Emirati online marketplace, connecting quality SMEs and artisan products to consumers, during a press meet shared insights on e-commerce and consumer shopping trends, in the UAE. Backed by the Emirati entrepreneur extraordinaire, Ahmed BinSalem Al Dhaheri, Chairman, Virtual Dusk, Souqplace.com aims at providing a platform to the blooming SME space of the UAE to ...

  Bloomberg Indonesia is set to attract as much as $5 billion in funds from Japan should S&P Global Ratings raise the nation’s debt rating to investment grade, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. S&P will probably lift Indonesia’s debt rating to BBB- within the next six months from BB+, as the government has pushed forward with fiscal reforms, Danny ...

  Bloomberg Marcus Schenck had been itching to work on deals — so much so that the chief financial officer of Deutsche Bank AG would spend one day a week with clients, a habit that didn’t always sit well with colleagues, according to a person familiar with his thinking. Now the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner has a chance ...

  Bloomberg Bank Muscat, Oman’s largest bank by assets, has signed to obtain a $525 million syndicated loan, banking sources said. The three-year facility pays an all-in 170 basis points over the London Interbank Offered Rate, comprising a margin of 155 bps plus 45 bps of bank fees spread over three years. Part of the proceeds of the loan, which ...

  Bloomberg A venture between Barratt Developments Plc and a real estate fund managed by Morgan Stanley is reviewing contracts for a 770-home project in east London amid a fraud probe at the homebuilder, according to a person familiar with the situation. The venture is exploring whether any Barratt employees were paid bribes to award subcontracts to some suppliers, the ...

  Bloomberg Bank of England (BOE) Deputy Governor Charlotte Hogg failed to tell the central bank that her brother worked at Barclays when she joined as chief operating officer in 2013. The declaration was only made in a questionnaire Hogg completed as part of her appointment this year as deputy governor for markets and banking. Hogg said she takes ‘full ...

  Bloomberg UBS Group AG is pushing to settle a French tax fraud investigation for less than the 300 million euros ($317 million) it paid to resolve a similar issue in Germany, people familiar with the matter said. That’s significantly below the 1.1 billion-euro bond the bank posted to cover potential penalties. UBS has been in talks since late 2016 ...

  OAKLAND, Calif / AP It was the swag-bags that convinced community health organizer Julia Liou to redraw the battle plan in a fight to reduce the hazardous chemical exposures of nail-salon workers, most of them low-paid Asian immigrant women. In 2005, Liou watched at California’s state Capitol as dozens of lobbyists gave away bags of lipsticks and other beauty ...

  BOGOTA / AP In a tiny brick apartment above a lottery shop, Martha Antivar waits for a sign of life from her husband, who is languishing in a Chinese prison an ocean away. Five years ago, Oscar Hilarion, a 45-year-old taxi driver, told his wife and family in Colombia that he was going to China on a business venture ...