By Foo Yun Chee and Chavi Mehta (Reuters) -Adobe Inc will need to secure European Union antitrust approval for its $20 billion bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma even though the deal falls short of the EU turnover threshold for a review, EU regulators said on Wednesday. The move by the European Commission underlines regulators’ …

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By Jesús Aguado MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish banking associations have lodged appeals against the government’s windfall tax at the High Court, they said on Wednesday, following claims the levy distorts competition. In December, Spain approved a temporary levy on banks that intended to raise 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) by 2024 to fund measures to ease …

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(Reuters) -Bausch + Lomb Corp on Wednesday named Brent Saunders, the former chief executive officer of Allergan, as its CEO and chairman of board, marking his return to the Canadian eye-care company after nearly a decade. Saunders will join Bausch + Lomb on Feb. 16 in an advisory capacity to help with the transition, the …

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(Reuters) – Several Russian strategic bombers and fighter jets were intercepted by North American air defence forces as they flew over international airspace near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) said, in routine incidents unrelated to tensions over the war in Ukraine. The aircraft, which were identified on Monday, did not enter U.S. …

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