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...Plaid’s investors include Silver Lake Partners and Ribbit Capital, as well as the asset management arms of JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and American Express....
...“[PBMs] are acutely aware of their situation: everybody in the world hates them and they are looking for friends,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, a right-leaning think-tank...
...American Express shares are close to record highs, up 40 per cent over the past year....
...American forces launched a second raid on Saturday....
...Chief among them: the airline’s long-standing credit card deal with American Express....
...Merchants are currently able to charge an extra fee for consumers who use American Express cards, but Visa and Mastercard have blocked sellers from doing so for their users....
...American Express Global Business Travel has agreed to buy rival CWT for $570mn in a bet on the continued recovery of business travel....
...But among the biggest contributors to Berkshire’s performance are stakes in a stable of blue-chip companies including Apple, Coca-Cola and American Express....
...In 2022, a third of American teens said they were using at least one of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook “almost constantly”....
...In this year’s shareholder letter, Buffett discussed Berkshire’s ongoing winnings from American Express and Coca-Cola, both big blue-chip bets made in the 1990s....
...They include Olson and Kenneth Chenault, the former head of American Express, which Berkshire has invested in for years....
...My teenage daughter thought of Jeffrey Dahmer, the American serial killer who has been recently introduced to a new generation via a Netflix drama series....
...“In the early days, people underestimated ‘Bayo’,” said Kenneth Chenault, former CEO of American Express, and a close friend of Ogunlesi since both were at Harvard Law School....
...It is a major American maker of the less-geopolitically-sensitive kind of chips, meaning it supplies fast food restaurants with frozen french fries....
...But he also wanted to express his gratitude for the Trump administration’s decision to approve an application allowing him to develop a North Carolina casino with a Native American tribe....
...“Clients are saying we can no longer work with American consulting firms,” said one executive at a US consultancy....
...Plaid now counts several large banks as customers as well as investors, including the asset management arms at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and American Express....
...The figures are distorted by movements in the value of its mammoth $353bn stock portfolio, which includes stakes in Apple, American Express and Bank of America....
...Earlier this year, the US government called for a ban or divestiture of the short-form video app, fearing it could harvest data on its 150mn American users for Chinese espionage purposes....
...Express, Freddie Mac, Gillette, Freddie Mac, Wells Fargo, Washington Post)....
...Berkshire has concentrated its financial industry investments on a handful of large US banks — Bank of America and Citigroup — as well as credit card companies including American Express, Visa and Mastercard...
...Precious metal miners Pan American and Agnico Eagle have made a joint $4.8bn bid for Yamana Gold, swooping in after Gold Fields faced an uphill battle convincing investors to back its takeover offer....
...Job moves American Express chief financial officer Jeffrey Campbell will retire in August after 25 years at the credit card group. He’ll be replaced by deputy CFO Christophe Le Caillec....
...A record 50.4mn Americans are expected to wager some $16bn according to the American Gaming Association....
...Yamana’s board said on Friday that the offer from Pan American and Agnico Eagle was a “superior proposal”....
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