By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Australia is pushing to seal a free trade agreement with EU authorities in the first half of 2023, its trade minister said on Wednesday. The European Union and Australia opened free trade negotiations in 2018 and have held 13 rounds of talks. But a deal has been held up …
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By Isabel Woodford (Reuters) – dLocal, the Uruguayan fintech facing allegations of potential fraud from a short-seller, has applied for a UK regulatory license, the company’s chief executive told investors in a recent call reviewed by Reuters, amid claims it dodged rigorous regulatory oversight by relying on Maltese regulators. Nasdaq shares in dLocal – which …
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By Benjamin Mallet La Hague, FRANCE (Reuters) – One of the many woes plaguing French utility giant EDF as it races to put its record number of offline nuclear reactors back in service is a lack of specialist welders. EDF’s nuclear output has been reduced to a 30-year low because of the unprecedented number of …
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PARIS (Reuters) -The head of French carmaker Renault’s new mobility unit Mobilize and deputy CEO of the group Clotilde Delbos has resigned, the company said on Wednesday. Renault said Delbos would leave at the end of December, without giving a reason for her departure. Fedra Ribeiro would be appointed CEO of Mobilize while Patrick Claude, …
(Reuters) -Italian insurer Generali SpA is planning to sell roughly 20 billion euros ($21 billion) of its Italian life insurance portfolio, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company may start a sale process as soon as January, the report said citing people. The sale includes legacy policies from Societa …
(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc said it has resolved an issue that prevented some users from accessing the shopping site on Wednesday. “We’re sorry that some customers may have temporarily experienced issues while shopping. We have resolved the issue,” a company spokesperson told Reuters, but did not provide any details on what caused the outage. Earlier in …
(Reuters) – The UK government said on Wednesday it would take no further action on French industrial group Schneider Electric’s takeover of British software company Aveva. The $12 billion deal had been approved by Aveva’s shareholders in November. (Reporting by Sinchita Mitra in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa must wean itself off coal if locally produced electric vehicles – a key element of the government’s decarbonisation plan – are to be climate friendly, the country head of Volkswagen said on Wednesday. Wealthy nations have already committed $8.5 billion to help Africa’s most industrialised nation cut its emissions. The …
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By Michele Gershberg (Reuters) -For much of the world, 2022 marked the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. The shift was palpable after several failed re-opening attempts in many countries. The arrival of the Omicron variant in late 2021, with its ability to re-infect people and the record spike in COVID cases that …
(Reuters) – BNP Paribas SA has appointed several senior executives to its Global Markets Americas division, the European bank said on Wednesday, in a move to further consolidate its presence in the United States. The French bank appointed former Morgan Stanley executive Kunal Maini as the co-head of Global Macro – Americas and he will …
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