NCBA Group is postponing plans to roll out digital-banking services in Ghana to 2025 after regulators in the West African nation changed some rules and asked the lender to reapply, Group Chief Executive Officer John Gachora said.
Taiwan’s high court convicted eight people, including active-duty and retired military personnel, of collecting state secrets on behalf of China, the official Central News Agency reported, in one of the largest espionage cases in years.
Italian search and rescue teams are set to enter their fourth day of operations around a sunken yacht off Sicily, where British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley International chair Jonathan Bloomer were among those feared to have died.
A surge in PB Fintech Ltd. has turned the Indian stock into the world’s best-performer this year among major financial technology firms as green shoots emerge in unsecured lending after a central bank crackdown.
Australia is facing elevated wildfire risks months ahead of the summer fire season, as an unusually warm winter scorches parts of the continent and threatens to set temperature records.
Elon Musk’s X attracted investment from a plethora of big names from Silicon Valley to global finance including Sean “Diddy” Combs and billionaire Larry Ellison, according to a court document unsealed Wednesday.
Xiaomi Corp. is willing to grow its nascent electric vehicle arm at the expense of profits for now, as it angles to join Tesla Inc. and BYD Co. among the world’s biggest automakers over the next decade or two.
Hong Kong’s push for a digital-asset hub faces growing pains amid uncertainty over whether 11 crypto exchanges will all achieve full licenses after earlier receiving initial approvals.
JD.com Inc. shares are poised to rebound following Walmart Inc.’s decision to sell a stake in the company, as the move doesn’t affect the e-commerce firm’s positive fundamentals, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Walmart Inc. is flying so high on the strength of its Chinese operations that it’s exited a long-time local partnership, an outlier in a consumer landscape that’s increasingly hostile to foreign brands.
Neuralink Corp., Elon Musk’s brain-computer company, said surgery for its second implant in a human “went well” and the patient is now able to design 3D objects and play video games like Counter-Strike 2.
A third liquefied natural gas tanker appears to be heading to the Arctic LNG 2 export plant in northern Russia that’s subject to US sanctions, with Moscow ramping up efforts to circumvent Western restrictions.
WeRide Inc. has postponed its plan for a US initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter, days before Chinese regulatory approval lapses.
A prominent Chinese economist has urged state funds to retreat from venture capital and allow the private sector to play a bigger role in a critical industry that’s enduring its weakest investment in years.
Binance Holdings Ltd. is hiring 1,000 people this year with many earmarked for compliance roles as the crypto exchange’s annual spending to meet regulatory requirements, including US oversight under a plea deal, tops $200 million.
South Korean bulls are looking to the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cuts to give the country’s stocks a bigger boost over emerging Asian peers.
