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...Belgium’s port city of Antwerp is the largest cocaine trafficking hub in Europe, with a record of almost 110 tonnes seized last year, up from about 90 tonnes in 2021 and 66 tonnes in 2020, according to customs...
...Last month, Premier Bank became the first Somali bank to establish a majority-owned banking subsidiary in neighbouring Kenya....
...first time....
...As a result, food banks across the world – from Banques Alimentaires, which supports more than 2m people in France, to the US’s All Faiths Food Bank – have had to pivot from accepting food donations towards...
...“In the last crisis they didn’t trust the commission,” says the senior diplomat....
...Alice Hancock in London 66....
...Among other next-generation members breaking away from the family business is Wee Teng Wen, 39, the eldest son of Wee Ee Cheong, 66, chief executive of UOB, Singapore’s only remaining family-run bank....
...Authorities have seized diamonds, precious stones, gold and jewellery from the jewellers’ showrooms and offices, frozen bank accounts, and taken steps to revoke Mr Modi’s and Mr Choksi’s Indian passports...
...One of the bids filed before the February 12 deadline was from Numetal Mauritius, a consortium led by Russia’s VTB Bank, a long-time Essar financier, alongside a trust controlled by a Ruia family member....
...Mr Mistry was the first chairman recruited from outside Tata’s founding family, but he was far from an outsider....
...The trimmed forecast is an acknowledgment that its 2 per cent core inflation target is a distant prospect....
...(Financial Times) Big investors replace banks in $4.2tn repo market: Big investors, including hedge funds, mutual funds and real estate trusts, are replacing banks as the biggest users of the overnight...
...The Swedish white goods maker is looking to emerging markets for relief from weakness in its core European and US markets amid fears of a renewed downturn in the western economies....
...construction companies to mega-banks – has a stake....
...So I can announce that – from the proceeds of this year’s bank levy – we will fund a £250m commitment to first-time buyers....
...The number of migrant workers in Britain was miscounted; the Northern Rock crisis saw the first run on a British bank since Victorian times; a junior civil servant managed to lose the personal data of 25m...
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