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...“Had it been London, Chicago or New York, it would have entered the folklore of policy memory.”...
...IG Group paid $1bn in January for Chicago-based Tastytrade, a fast-growing retail investor business focused on the futures and options market....
...Draghi facing a v difficult balancing act....
...London airport capacity is a scarce resource, and the least valuable use of it is for travellers from Chicago to Moscow to stop off pointlessly in one of the world’s busiest airports rather than in Amsterdam...
...The buyout is Equistone’s first UK investment from its Fund V, which closed at €2bn in April....
...The contrast with the facts of Berezovsky v....
...Bookmakers have installed the home team as odds-on favourites, perhaps unexpectedly given the US team’s domination of the first two days’ play at Medinah near Chicago in the 2012 Ryder Cup....
...“I know my client does not appeal to you and you wish this saga would come to an end but this is not the end.”....
...But the most interesting bit comes when Argentina cites an old (well, 2003) English Court of Appeals case… It’s Kensington International Ltd. v Republic of the Congo, another sovereign holdout case....
...We’ve already seen how NML Capital v Argentina has influenced Grenada’s legal battle with the Taiwanese government-owned Export-Import Bank of the Republic of China....
...Related reading: Argentine debt holders seek $250m in security, FT Argentina: don’t uncork the bubbly yet, beyondbrics Argentina v holdout file, beyondbrics Pari Passu saga, FT Alphaville...
...Mr Chang studied for two masters of fine art degrees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois and the Seoul National University in Korea....
...Most read stories this week: Samsung v Apple: no more playing niceSamsung: legal threat to chaebols?...
...The MF Global saga has already led to plans to improve protection for futures customers. Brokers and clearing houses will have to hold more capital from their customer accounts....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Mr Donohue, 50, oversaw the acquisitions of the Chicago Board of Trade in 2007 and the New York Mercantile Exchange in 2008....
...(Financial Times) - The Google v Oracle case could have big implications for the software industry....
...The company was a dominant force in Chicago’s agricultural trading markets and the largest broker on the New York Mercantile Exchange....
...CNA Financial, a Chicago-based insurer with a market capitalisation of $8bn, has offered 280p a share in a deal that values Hardy’s equity at £143m and looks set to end a long-running takeover saga....
...“MF Global is the biggest thing to hit this industry in years,” says John Lothian, a Chicago futures veteran who runs a popular industry newsletter....
...“There has been a reluctance to decide things fast, a reluctance by government agencies to approve things quicker – they have not moved the way they used to,” says V....
...This followed its suspension as a primary dealer by the New York Fed, as well as the suspension on trading by MF Global on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, ICE and NYSE Liffe, which said MF Global clients...
...In what has become the most quotable quote of the saga, Jon Corzine, MF Global’s last chief executive, said “I simply don’t know where the money is.”...
...Mr Paracuelles said he expected Japan to stage a V-shaped recovery in the second half of the year which would buoy Singapore’s economy....
...One of the ironies of this saga is that, with most of his claims processed, Feinberg has paid out only about $6.7bn of BP’s $20bn....
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