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...Netflix relied heavily on programming that it licensed from other companies when it launched its streaming service in 2007....
...Reese Witherspoon sold her company Hello Sunshine to Blackstone for $900mn in 2021, for example, and Blackstone-backed Candle Media took a $60mn stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Inc...
...(BB&B has gyrated between $4 and $28 over the past year, often moving wildly with no other impetus than social media hype)....
...*Ignites is a news service published by FT Specialist for professionals working in the asset management industry. It covers everything from new product launches to regulations and industry trends....
...It would never be obviously child porn, you know, inc come here and buy your images. So it was quite deceptive, I would say....
...“There are a lot of forces pushing against this being a long-run trend,” said Meredith Coffey, co-head of public policy at the Loan Syndications and Trading Association....
...Andy Bird, the former Disney executive who has run the publisher since late 2020, has made some headway boosting online subscription services....
...It also generates income from software services, charging, maintenance and insurance as well as sales of powertrains, batteries and carbon credits to other manufacturers....
...How do we really allow for the syndication of identity?...
...But such a model turns on shared, reliable and meaningful measures of success: box-office receipts, audience figures, syndication deals. The upside can be quantified and divvied up....
...The deal is the first large bank merger since BB&T bought SunTrust for $28bn in February of 2019, forming what is now Truist....
...Last year, BB&T and SunTrust combined in a $66bn all-stock deal that created a commercial banking giant in the south-east of the US, with more than $400bn in assets....
...Recent acquisitions have demanded high prices or been mergers of equals, such as when BB&T combined with SunTrust last year to create a bank just bigger than Mr Demchak’s....
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...That came a day after S&P lowered its rating for Macy’s, the department store chain, to BB+ — one notch below investment grade — from BBB-....
...His fund has returned 6.2 per cent this year, compared to 5.2 per cent for Lord Abbett’s fund and 6.4 per cent for the broader market, according to an index run by the Leverage Syndications and Trading Association...
...BB&T’s acquisition of rival SunTrust for $28bn is certainly a defining moment for the industry. It's fist bumps all round for SunTrust’s Bill Rogers, left, and BB&T’s Kelly King....
...Disney, Apple, AT&T’s WarnerMedia and Comcast are all plotting streaming services to debut in the coming year....
...In 2016 Citi consolidated its 22 European Economic Area branches under its unit in Ireland, where it offers investment banking services such as loan underwriting, syndication and trading; foreign exchange...
...S&P reiterated its foreign-currency debt rating of BBB+ and A- in local currency, but lowered Pemex’s standalone credit profile to B- from BB- “owing to the continued deterioration in the profiles of business...
...other social services than on debt service, he added....
...The claim threatens to taint the Wall Street bank’s prestige and ability to cross-sell its array of services to chief executives....
...The deal comes just days after the $66bn merger of US banks BB&T and SunTrust marked the biggest post-crisis US bank M&A, suggesting a revival of dealmaking in the banking sector after years of caution....
...Channel Four stopped showing BB in 2010 only for it to pop up a year later on Channel Five. Last month, the series was canned by Channel Five....
...Compare this to the risks BB&T and SunTrust are taking by combining in a $66bn (albeit all-stock) deal....
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