BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina's government on Tuesday approved a $2.5 billion lithium mining project by Anglo-Australian giant Rio Tinto, marking the first mining project under a new investment incentive regime. The approval of Rio Tinto's Rincon project, located in the northern Salta province, under the RIGI incentive scheme was announced by the country's mining and energy coordination secretary Daniel Gonzalez...

Apex Group, a financial services provider with more than $3 trillion in assets under administration, said on Tuesday it had acquired a majority stake in Tokeny, a Luxembourg-based firm that helps institutions tokenize real-world assets (RWA) on public blockchains. According to the deal, Apex expects to take full ownership of Tokeny over the next three years, after first investing in...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Tuesday it agreed to buy 10 wind and solar energy project development companies from Norway's Statkraft, in an exit from the Andean country. Ecopetrol Chief Executive Ricardo Roa said the portfolio of projects could total up to 1.3 gigawatts in capacity, which will be used to supply Ecopetrol's domestic energy needs....