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...The sector “has a great track record of organic growth, maybe two down years in 30 years, and the down years are hardly down”, said Blake Kleinman, partner at H&F....
...A wave of insurance brokerages including Hub Group and Integrity Marketing Group have taken private equity cash....
...The Houthi rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack on Wednesday evening local time....
...She cites plans to create kids’ “learning retreats” at a Maldives resort slated to open in a couple of years – several-days-long educational programmes (“or 10 days, or even two weeks”), focused on marine...
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...Google has ignited a social media firestorm on the nature of consciousness after placing an engineer on paid leave who went public with his belief that the tech group’s chatbot has become “sentient”....
...The original loan was flagged as part of an internal investigation by the insurance group Tokio Marine, whose decision to pull coverage of Greensill helped trigger its collapse....
...But if Barnier secures the nomination of his party, he may emerge as Macron’s more plausible challenger, compared to the far-right’s Marine Le Pen or Éric Zemmour....
...Thiel, 54, in 2016 gave more than $1mn to pro-Trump groups....
...Under dos Santos, partnerships with Dino’s Cochan Holdings LLC helped Trafigura dominate the supply of petroleum products in Angola, generating bumper profits that supported the Swiss group’s transformation...
...Given all the headaches around bank mergers, what we should expect more of is small banks buying stakes in financial technology groups....
...Blake Byers has stepped down as a general partner at GV, a venture capital arm of Google, to start his own firm....
...said in a letter distributed by WWF, the conservation group....
...Adding to the scrutiny is an unusual loan from Greensill to General Atlantic that was flagged during an internal investigation last year at insurance group Tokio Marine....
...S&P has already signalled its intention to conduct a further consultation after the April revamp to potentially expand the Clean Energy index into fields such as marine energy, alternative fuels, energy...
...Further fintech fascination Follow the money: Ant Group’s much-anticipated IPO is fast approaching....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Tokio Marine and Truly International....
...Nor was Bannon comfortable when challenged about Marine Le Pen and his comments to her supporters. “Let them call you racist . . . wear it as a badge of honour.”...
...For the time being, the former Breitbart media group executive chairman remains influential....
...Christmas is coming and it is time once again for the Long View to pay its annual visit to the offices of Hindsight Capital LLC....
...The vote caused a period of greater jitters among buyers, according to listed housebuilders such as Berkeley Group....
...GoDaddy’s chief executive, Blake Irving, said in an interview that the deal advanced the company’s position in Europe “by about five years” and added 1.7m customers....
...The takeover, which values Cabela’s equity at about $4.5bn, will mean the combined group becomes the US’s second-largest sports goods retailer by revenues, according to Euromonitor....
...Sports Authority and Vestis Retail Group, which operates Eastern Mountain Sports and Bob’s Stores, both filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this year....
...With far-right parties — including Marine Le Pen’s National Front — on the rise in France and Germany, continental Europe seems a natural next step....
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