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...“Not a single one of the clients who are in these funds would pay these rates for any other type of insurance, certainly not term [life] insurance,” she points out....
...That’s why the company is seeking to buy what it calls “mini-MatchMoves” in markets in central Europe, Latin America and the US, he said....
...American International Group, the insurance company that was a pioneer in the business, has made billions of dollars in profit out of housing tax credits, according to a lawsuit filed in 2017 by several...
...the company....
...Trendwatch: Fintechs appear prominently in the Financial Times’ inaugural ranking of the Americas’ fastest growing companies....
...Capping off the list are Christiana Riley, head of Deutsche Bank Americas, Paul Taubman, founder, chairman and CEO of PJT Partners, Dwight Scott, president of GSO Capital Partners and David Marcus, head...
...The status of the workers who provide the services offered by so-called gig economy companies such as Uber has been a point of contention for many years....
...The spin-offs of healthcare and Baker Hughes are the ultimate conclusions of that strategy....
...Mr Otting, a former CEO of OneWest Bank and ally of Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, is the day-to-day regulator for national banks like Wells Fargo, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase....
...Baker McKenzie has poached Matthew Dening, the co-head of Sidley Austin's London global finance team, for its structured capital markets practice....
...Cebile Capital, a private equity placement agent, has hired Steven Westerback as president, head of the Americas....
...Baker is an MIT Media Lab Research affiliate with the Open Agriculture Initiative, and a board member of OpenMRS Inc, which develops open source medical records systems for use in resource-constrained environments...
...In recent years BrokerTec has allowed a select few hedge funds to join the platform but no asset managers, pension funds or insurance companies have access, according to people with direct knowledge of its...
...Last year, for example, Halliburton and Baker Hughes scrapped their $28bn marriage while Pfizer abandoned a $160bn takeover of Allergan....
...Under the Obama administration, antitrust enforcers had blocked a series of large deals, including Halliburton’s $28bn takeover of Baker Hughes and Comcast’s $45bn acquisition of Time Warner Cable....
...“Trump is likely to be more European . . . favouring the creation of national champions so if the argument is that DowDuPont is a company that will help America by being a better global competitor I think...
...This year alone, the DoJ has torpedoed a $38bn merger between oilfield services companies Halliburton and Baker Hughes, while new tax rules introduced in 2016 by the government forced Pfizer to jettison...
...In May, Halliburton abandoned hopes of acquiring Baker Hughes amid DoJ opposition....
...North America’s oldest private company, which was founded as a fur trader in 1670, said on Tuesday that it would launch in a third European country with the opening of up to 20 department stores across the...
...Drugmaker Pfizer scrapped its $160bn bid for Allergan; the US government sued to block Halliburton’s $25bn takeover of Baker Hughes; and Anbang Insurance walked away from a $14bn offer for Starwood Hotels...
...On Tuesday evening the Wall Street Journal reported that five of the eight biggest banks in the country were set to have their “living wills” rejected by the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance...
...To critics like Todd Baker, a consultant and former banker, the lack of steady funding will prove the undoing of companies such as SoFi....
...We also need the tech companies to acknowledge the disruption they cause and do far more to benefit all aspects of our lives. john.thornhill@ft.com...
...To address the funding problem, SoFi has just launched a hedge fund to buy its own loans and the loans of other online lenders, aiming to raise about $500m from wealthy individuals, insurance companies,...
...General Motors and Ford face similar challenges as both make disproportionate amounts of their global profits from a handful of vehicles in North America....
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