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...The “alt-coins” — crypto speak for tokens that aren’t bitcoin — have had a bad week, too. Ether, the second most popular cryptocurrency, is down 8 per cent in the past week....
...Banc of California chief executive Jared Wolff, a former PacWest executive until 2019, will remain as CEO and president of the combined company, which will operate under the Banc of California name....
...Behind the bank merger Who would be behind another bank rescue but JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon, who helped orchestrate the deal between Banc of California and PacWest at his private beach club, Bloomberg...
Expect financial innovation to go on proliferating, unhindered by the laws of physics
...Edwin Conway, who previously ran alts, will lead a new unit focused on private equity, infrastructure, real estate and climate investing....
...You have to diversify and that’s why [they] are buying alts,” said Peter Kraus, the former chief of AllianceBernstein, who heads Aperture, a new asset management company....
...Alex Jones, the alt-right conspiracy theorist who runs Infowars, was recently banned from Facebook, YouTube and Apple, where he hosted podcasts....
...Closely related is the collapse in trust for the media — or the Lügenpresse as Mr Trump’s alt-right supporters call it, in a reprisal of Hitler’s attacks on the “lying press”....
...— Here’s an investigation into Breitbart, replete with a cache of internal emails, that shows the central role it has played in fuelling white nationalism and the alt-right....
...Jones, “We’re the platform for the alt-right”....
...The misinformation, spread by a site called Alt-Right, appeared on Facebook’s “Safety Check” page, which people use to make sure their friends and family are safe after a crisis....
...trading after Axios first reported that White House chief of staff John Kelly is considering firing Mr Bannon, a self-proclaimed “nationalist” who ran the Breitbart website and called it a “platform for the alt-right...
...One of Mr Trump’s closest advisers, chief strategist Stephen Bannon, boasted last year that he had made the rightwing online news site Breitbart “the platform for the alt-right”....
...“Populist hero Stephen K Bannon returns home to Breitbart” the alt-right news outlet declared on its website on Friday afternoon....
...The president’s chief strategist is under pressure for escalating a power struggle with HR McMaster, the national security adviser, and for his ties to the alt-right movement which is under new scrutiny...
...One of the alt-right’s favourite hashtags is #whitegenocide. Yet the alt-right lacks the essential features of a movement....
...Breitbart News does not explicitly support the worst of the “alt-right” — ethno-nationalism rebranded for the internet age....
Marketers also become warier over type of sites on which ads end up being displayed
...A self-styled economic nationalist who ran the alt-right Breitbart news service, Mr Bannon is rapidly making himself the power centre of the Trump administration....
...Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor at US “alt-right” website Breitbart News, had been invited to speak at the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury....
...For Mr Williams, the menu includes hedge funds, private equity and alternative mutual funds, otherwise known as “liquid alts”, which have “slightly less in returns expectations . . . but similar exposures...
...Here’s Bloomberg on Monday: Losses on a $126 million deal of loans originated through CircleBack Lending Inc. and put together by Jefferies Group LLC have already overwhelmed the trigger value embedded...
...management law at Harvard Law School, who is currently working on a book about his time as investment management director at the Securities and Exchange Commission, says: “A US manager seeking to run a liquid alt...
...Although the chance that the entire appeals court would hear the case in what is known as an en banc proceeding was slim, prosecutors hoped that the court would at least grant a rehearing from the three-judge...
...Both Catalunya Banc and Bankia, the biggest of the lenders nationalised during last year’s banking crisis, remain in government hands....
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