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...He seems like the type of ego-lite billionaire who would fit well with the environmentalist crowd. So why doesn’t Buffett seem to care about climate change?...
...Lawsuits in states including Utah, Louisiana, Texas and Florida succeeded in temporarily halting bans....
...The three-year-old startup had progressed from an ambitious idea Holmes had dreamed up in her Stanford dorm room to an actual product a huge multinational corporation was interested in using....
...That marks a contrast to the middle of the past decade, when Walmart tried to go head to head with banks by applying for special charters from the state of Utah....
...Lite-On Technology and Media Tek lost 3 per cent and 2.6 per cent, respectively....
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...SoFi, the biggest and brashest of a new breed of online lender in the US, applied to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in June for a special charter from the state of Utah....
...A powerful lobby group for US banks is circling the wagons against SoFi, the biggest of a new breed of online lenders, urging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to reject its application to launch...
...On Monday the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation revealed that San Francisco-based SoFi had filed an application last week for an industrial bank charter from the state of Utah....
...It would continue to escape rules laid down by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which prevent banks from lending money at a cheaper rate in certain areas — says Stanford University — than another...
...The more automated, streamlined and people-lite the banking process — especially back-office confirmation and settlement — the easier it is for a hacker to game the system....
...Another factor has been a surge in US M&A at a time of low interest rates and healthy economic growth. Takeovers by US corporations have totalled a record $1.2tn in the year to date....
...“It’s a good base measurement of the entire nation: big corporations, small ‘mom-and-pops’; old wealth, new wealth; a broken education system; and big sports teams....
...Zions Bancorp, a Utah-based bank, fell at the first hurdle. But even for banks that passed last time, there can be no complacency....
...Venom is “milked” from captive rattlesnakes in Utah and shipped to Australia where it is injected into specially reared sheep to produce antibodies; the sheep’s blood is then used to make antivenom at a...
...Before he became a venture capitalist, Jeff Crowe founded Edify Corporation, which went public in the mid-1990s....
...Last week, Japan Tobacco bought the UK’s E-Lites for an undisclosed amount....
...Nick Beecroft, a senior market analyst at Saxo Capital Markets: “ECB goes for ABS purchase of simple and transparent loans to non-financial corporations and also of covered bonds. QE-lite!”...
...Tokat from Centerview Partners in New York, and Ryan Smith, a venture capitalist from Utah....
...It works for Coca-Cola by handing it the superior margins that come with an asset-lite model, while giving it control over the bottlers....
...The group’s collapse in September 2008 triggered a lengthy bankruptcy process. It also left behind two mortgage-focused subsidiary banks, Delaware-based Aurora and Utah-based Woodlands Commercial Bank....
...Mary says: “Railroads, ie Union Pacific Corporation; and discount shopping, ie Walmart, are not difficult to understand.” 3....
...“Regulatory pressures are driving the banks to reduce their leverage and adopt more of a ‘capital lite’ business model,” says Bennett Goodman, one of GSO’s three founders....
...Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan , one of the world’s largest fertiliser producers, rose 7.1 per cent to $45.91. While another fertiliser maker, CF Industries , gained 1.7 per cent to $184.21....
...Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor, valued his holding in Huntsman Corporation, a global chemical company owned by his father, between $5m and $25m, and said he earned between $100,000 and $1m from it...
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