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...The UK’s Takeover Panel, which oversees local deal activity, has named Barclays’ co-head of M&A for Emea Omar Faruqui, as its director-general....
...The First Republic deal, and one in 2008 when JPMorgan purchased the assets of Washington Mutual, fall under an exception for deals involving failed banks....
...Skinner was a veteran of the marine protection and indemnity industry, according to industry publication TradeWinds....
...Colgate-Palmolive in February told analysts that its market share growth in China was “a beautiful story”, while Illinois Tool Works said last year its China revenue exceeded $1bn for the first time....
...“I think corporations and the wealthy need to pay their fair share,” he said....
...Anderson lost three friends to coronavirus, including Hal Willner, the longtime music co-ordinator for Saturday Night Live....
...UK, Office for National Statistics publishes quarterly GDP data Assicurazioni Generali H1, Bank of Ireland Q2, BMW H1, BP Q2 ConocoPhillips Q2, Direct Line Insurance Q2, Domino’s Pizza Q2, Eli Lilly & Co...
...Matt Bennett, the co-founder of Third Way, a centrist Democratic think-tank, said he believed an “intra-Democratic compromise” was almost certain to happen....
...(FT) One town spends to address the racial divide In Evanston, Illinois, the life expectancy at birth on one (mostly white) side of town is 86 years....
...Teneo’s clients such as Allstate, Barclays Capital and BHP Billiton had stepped up their giving, he said....
...Read up on the full event agenda here which includes speakers from top banks, law firms, corporations and private equity groups. Use this link to register....
...(FT) Affirm prices above range in further sign of hot IPO market Affirm, the consumer lender led by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, sold shares well above its expected price range during an initial public...
...Among the key provisions are a new round of direct cheques worth $1,400 each to individuals earning up to $75,000 per year, an extension of federal jobless benefits until early September, an increase in...
...Other measures could come into play in New York, Oregon, Washington state, New Jersey and Illinois....
...Catherine McGuinness, policy chair at the City of London Corporation, said that the climate action plans “will drive both growth and jobs” — an approximate 800 green jobs, to be exact....
...Illinois saw 230,000 new sports betting accounts opened in July, while New Jersey reported its best month yet after $668m of wagers were placed in August — 90 per cent online....
...There are indicators that it may be part of an even broader campaign that extends beyond the SolarWinds software....
...“It’s much more likely that legitimate domestic actors possibly operating under their own name — with LLCs or corporations with very shady funding that are not required to disclose what that funding is —...
...One of its first pieces takes apart how Allstate’s auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders. Tech tools — Brave browser goes Wayback Tired of those 404 Not Found errors?...
...Two business groups have already challenged the Illinois move....
...Jack Welch, who has died at the age of 84, was one of America’s most influential managers and an embodiment of the past century’s “cult of the CEO”....
...But a lack of co-ordination is driving up prices, compounding the supply crisis....
...On June 12 back at home in Naperville, Illinois, Kearns took his own life, after believing he had lost nearly $750,000 in a soured options bet made on Robinhood, an online brokerage that has become emblematic...
...Somehow that text has been reread into a right for corporations to spend unlimited money on elections....
...“Purdue is not going to be involved with an Enron Corporation that will screw you over,” he said. He took out an ISA for $33,000 to cover his tuition fees after exhausting federally-subsidised loans....
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