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...A quick aside to explain the GPFG reference. That stands for Government Pension Fund Global, the name of the actual fund (often just called “the oil fund” in Norway, or Oljefondet)....
...Of course, as we’re recording, we’re expecting the bank’s latest decision on interest rate rises. Stephen, what’s caught your imagination in recent days?...
...So to recap: fake name, Bernard Bergemar. Real name, Bernd Bergmair. This may or may not be just about the worst porn name in the whole history of porn....
...Their follower count and their bank account are forever linked. According to Opendorse, the vast majority of NIL revenue has come from posting on social media apps....
...Case officers strategise approaches, while operational risk experts plan how to get the right SIS officer in front of the person at the right moment....
...The bookstore-gallery-events locale, situated on a quiet, traffic-free side street, brings in Moroccans and expats of all sorts for readings, discussions and the simply browsing of the hundreds of titles...
...He names the banks, universities and industries that all benefited directly from the trade....
...“In the last year, the banks have been very aggressive in helping clients to buy properties of all kinds.”...
...The IT problems at TSB stretched into their fifth day on Friday, as many of the bank’s customers continued to be locked out of their online accounts, causing uncertainty for those with end-of-month bills...
...a dollar in your bank account....
...For more than two decades, the city and the region were in the grip of Spain’s centre-right Popular party....
...In 2006 and 2007, when he served as prime minister, he lived with his mother in the official state residence and did not have a bank account, collecting his salary (20 per cent of which he donated to a cat...
...Their blow-by-blow account explains just how much co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie got right in building and selling the device — and then how badly wrong they got their reaction to the all-conquering...
...At the time of Murthy’s return to Infosys, Meera Sanyal, the former head of Royal Bank of Scotland in India and a one-time Infosys client, summed up why the career of this elder statesman of Indian software...
...All you have to do is email mybookoftheyear@ft.com by December 15 with the title and author of the book you liked most and, in 100 words or less, explain your choice....
...He founded Lending Club in 2006 after observing the discrepancy between the interest rate on his credit card and the money being paid on his bank account....
...Similarly, Le Figaro, bastion of the centre right, is supported by the Dassault family whose wealth has roots in the aerospace group of the same name....
...He was the head of Banco Santander in Italy and considered to be the right-hand man of Santander’s powerful executive chairman Emilio Botín in the country....
...But at the same time, the family’s money is in the bank, which makes the business something you want to preserve. It makes you all the more careful, wanting to do the right thing.”...
...There is a splendidly hazy air of detachment in the author’s account of life with the Stones. He is on the whole uninterested in their music, their drug-fuelled lifestyles or their personal feuds....
...Now grown up, Garner’s hero, Colin, works at Jodrell Bank as an astronomer and Susan has vanished, possibly living in the Pleiades....
...“What detonated the latest phase of this crisis was the situation at a big financial institution and its enormous capital requirements,” Angel Ron, chairman of Banco Popular, a listed Spanish commercial...
...A stern but insightful word from the right sort of bank manager. Shortlisted for the 2009 FT/Goldman Sachs business book of the year....
...There is a tendency to see only the downside after a major recession – look at the plethora of titles published in the US in the early-1990s or in Germany in the early-2000s about how the economic outlook...
...“We have seen unfair competition as a result of assistance to foreign banks that has absolutely distorted markets,” Roberto Higuera, chief executive of Banco Popular, said last month....
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