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...Which fintech tie-ups do you see happening by the end of the year? Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...The Big Three are on course to control 40 per cent of the votes in American corporations in a couple of decades....
...s decision to settle eight sexual harassment lawsuits with company funds, and to take no disciplinary action against the CEO, were “routine business decisions in the interest of the corporation”....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...power to international corporations. —————- The case for trade and the TPP has largely been won in Nebraska, a proud farm state that sends beef and soybeans around the world....
...(The Atlantic) London skyline 1616 v 2016 Juxtaposed images sketched 400 years apart show the change in the city’s skyline from the banks of the Thames. (The Guardian)...
...The net internal rate of return for investors who wrote cheques for TPG V over the period is 5 per cent, while the gross multiple on invested capital is negative as of June 30....
...That is Act V, and we are not there yet. For now we are still very definitely in the age of hydrocarbons....
...In at least one case, SEC v....
...Thursday’s Kiobel v Royal Dutch Shell ruling by the US Supreme Court provides much-needed clarification about the scope of an obscure US law utilised by a growing number of claimants from emerging economies...
...Keller at BarCap says the bank is gambling that the European Central Bank’s offer of liquidity will encourage European banks to roll over loans to Turkish banks and corporations and supply a big chunck of...
...“This fund is a good start, a step in the right direction to bring confidence back to the market,” said V Shankar, Standard Chartered’s chief executive for Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas....
...‘Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990’, V&A Museum, London, September 24-January 15, www.vam.ac.uk Exhibition supported by Friends of the V&A with further support from Barclays Wealth...
...Ms Baldry, who succeeds Sir David Cooksey, will dip into her regeneration and development experience as the former chairman of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation....
...Signature Financial Group, Inc., which incredibly enough was written by Judge Giles Rich some 46 years after he was principal draftsman of the 1952 Patent Act....
...Cohen subsequently made phone calls from an outdoor pay phone to tip his uncle David V....
...Gavin was in charge of the 7,500-man team from the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation on New York’s Long Island that had won the contract to build lunar landing modules for the Apollo flights....
...Shareholder primacy, the idea that a corporation’s role is to maximise shareholder wealth above all else, has its roots in a 1919 Michigan Supreme Court case, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co....
...Sikorsky, the subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation of the US, saw the first flight of its S-76D in February this year....
...The immediate target of their wrath is the gene patents held by Myriad Corporation over the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that have been implicated in breast cancer....
...Related links: SEC v Bank of America Corporation – US District Court Judge approves BofA settlement with SEC – FT Judge questions BofA settlement – Reuters...
...FT Alphaville did not see this coming: AMD and Intel on Thursday declared the end of one of the longest-running and bitterest spats in the technology sector (see also: Apple v Microsoft, Yahoo v Google,...
...and huge fines for the corporation....
...If growth in developed countries starts to look like a “U”, in emerging markets it already is a “V”....
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