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...Few US companies make the A-list because most American groups have strong ties to lobbying groups, such as the Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers, which “remain largely opposed...
...The Inter-American Development Bank, the region’s biggest multilateral lender, hopes to change that....
...route for companies to become public....
...Lemonade, the SoftBank-backed insurance start-up that completed an initial public offering earlier this month, has launched as a B Corporation — a business certified for achieving high environmental and...
...US Steel, established in 1901 from the merger of three American steel giants and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, was then by far the largest corporation in the world....
...A study released last week by the Global Strategy Group shows that two-thirds of Americans believe that corporations have a responsibility to address key social and political issues....
...Mr Ye used his career experiences at PayPal, Capital One, American Express, and America Online to co-found Jianpu’s parent company, Rong360, in 2011....
...For one thing, every homebuyer with a downpayment of less than 20 per cent of the purchase price (if less than C$1m) has to buy insurance against default....
...Then we created Vix futures, and Americans love sugar, so people bought them,” Shah jokes. More was to come....
...Emergency services are using this to respond to fires in remote regions while insurance companies use it to check disaster claims....
...In the past satellites could only be built and launched by multibillion-dollar companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin — one of the world’s biggest defence contractors — and Orbital Sciences Corporation....
...He serves on the board of trustees at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is chairman of the Tate....
...Canterbury Development Corporation estimates there was 446,000 sq m of office space in the central business district prior to the earthquakes, which fell to a low of 104,000 sq m by 2013....
...The Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ordered the five banks to fix their plans by October 2016, or face more stringent regulations, including higher capital, leverage or liquidity...
...A broader concern about China Inc’s acquisition spree stems from questions about why it is happening....
...Cyber insurance policies might not cover a fraud against a company if its network has not been hacked....
...From “activist investors” to investment banks, from management consultants to asset managers, from high-frequency traders to insurance companies, today, financiers dictate terms to American business, rather...
...The first batch of reviews for Robert Gordon’s new book The rise and fall of American Growth: the US standard of living since the civil war, are feeding through the blogosphere....
...I can confirm today we’re going to reduce the rate of Corporation Tax even further. That’s the rate Britain’s profitmaking companies — large and small — have to pay....
...corporations and holding companies....
...“I think the crisis provided a catalyst for the company to really focus on its core competence as an insurance company and a pre-eminent global insurer....
...The new China-backed institutions will supplement the existing Export-Import Bank of China, China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation, and China Development Bank....
...In 23 years at Fidelity, Mr Reynolds was credited with shaping the development of the US pension market as it shifted from defined benefit plans, but he left the firm as chairman Ned Johnson groomed his...
...The investment group moved into the building in 2010, joining corporations such as banking group Wells Fargo, energy giant ConocoPhillips, hedge fund Third Point and telecommunications company Verizon....
...Sophisticated debt instruments allowed corporations to hedge risk much more efficiently....
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