Fintech company Worldline SA agreed Monday to acquire rival Ingenico Group SA for €7.8 billion ($8.6 billion), the biggest global deal of the year so far, creating a giant in the fast-consolidating European payments sector. The all-French deal comes as …
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Sandeep Mathrani knows what it’s like to lead a company out of trouble. His former employer, General Growth Properties, had been flattened by the economic recession of 2008. GGP, the second-biggest owner of shopping malls in America, named Mathrani …
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(Refiles to add dropped word ‘Citi’ in headline) Feb 3 (Reuters) – Peter Crawley has been appointed as Citigroup Inc’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) Head for Britain and Europe, based in London and will move into his new role with effect from April 6, …
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Much ado has been made of Luckin Coffee’s(NASDAQ:LK) incursion into China. The Middle Kingdom has long been Starbucks’ (NASDAQ:SBUX) turf as the java giant essentially introduced the cafe culture to China, starting with its first store there 21 years …
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London (CNN Business) A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. For stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen, it was bad day of epic proportions. The Shanghai Composite …
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