Sept 12 (Reuters) - Blackstone is considering options including a sale of its majority stake in visa application outsourcing and technology services firm VFS Global after receiving interest from prospective investors, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. A potential transaction could value VFS at about $7 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Blackstone and VFS did not immediately...

* S.American cocoa output seen hitting record high of 1.1 mln T * Ecuador leads with high-yielding cocoa plantations replacing banana, palm trees * Ecuador expected to surpass Ghana as world's No. 2 cocoa producer in 4 years By Naveen Thukral SINGAPORE, Sept 13 (Reuters) - A rally in global cocoa prices to a record high is driving rapid expansion...

BERLIN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Any banking merg⁠er, such as the possible takeover of Commzerbank by Italy's UniCredit, depends on the business model and must serve competitiveness, the European Central Bank's Joachim Nagel said in a radio interview on Friday. It is clear that we need strong and robust banks, Nagel told Deutschlandfunk, declining to comment on market developments. In...

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) -An Indian antitrust investigation has found U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart violated local competition laws by giving preference to select sellers on their shopping websites, according to reports seen by Reuters. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in 2020 ordered an investigation into Amazon and Flipkart for allegedly promoting certain sellers with...