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...“We need to see many flowers bloom. And I’m not a believer that a few companies should define India’s destiny,” said Kotak in an interview with the Financial Times....
...Sarah Bloom Raskin, who was US president Joe Biden’s pick to lead financial regulation at the Fed before running into Republican opposition, told the Financial Times that companies were struggling to make...
...“The ultimate challenge of mandating five days a week in the office is that it is very costly,” said Bloom....
...The fake blooms coagulated outside Mayfair restaurants are far more lusciously extravagant than real life....
...In February, Denmark and Sweden demanded that the Commission take action against the UK after it closed part of the Dogger Bank in the North Sea to protect seabirds....
...A finely devised dry pathway curves between man-made banks, held up by hundreds of tonnes of big flintstones, transported specially to the site. There is even a bridge evoking the bones of a dinosaur....
...According to the 2023 Direct to Consumer Wine Survey by the Silicon Valley Bank, the average cost of a “reserve tasting” in Napa Valley was $128....
...An analysis by the European Central Bank suggested that energy supply shocks curbed spending on durable goods in particular....
...But I have had to think again, thanks to the Bank of England....
...After an unusually warm winter, Washington’s cherry blossoms hit peak bloom about a month ago, the second-earliest flowering in more than a century, according to the National Park Service....
...They also secured homeworking rights at one of the country’s biggest banks, and are challenging another over a rule requiring staff to spend at least half their working hours each month in the office....
...But if I had a kid working at EY or Bank of America who was being told to show up more often, I’d side with the bosses....
...It used to be do right by your employees, customers and bank. Now, it’s increasingly shifting towards [focusing on] shareholders . . ....
...Higher rates and the regional banking turmoil earlier this year have spurred a growing conviction that private credit will bloom....
...Painting himself as more shadow than self, absent rather than present, Marshall announced “the lack in the image bank” of Black figures in the canon, and his determination to join the modernist lineage....
...Spring has come early to London’s South Bank: on a grey February day inside the Hayward Gallery, a burst of huge silken flower-lights drops from the ceiling, opening into many-layered luxuriant blooms....
...“Nobody doubts this will be a very difficult year,” says Pierpaolo Barbieri, founder and chief executive of the internet bank Ualá....
...Filtered through the lens of photographers including Eve Arnold and Martin Parr, the selection captures a heady mix of characters, rituals and friendships in bloom....
...Thousands of barbecued Pacific saury served with kabosu (a Japanese citrus fruit) are offered out for free on the banks of the Meguro river....
...Citigroup has warned it will “hold colleagues accountable” if they do not comply with the bank’s policies on office attendance, Bloomberg reported in June....
...The judge had commented in court that robbing a bank and then playing the lottery is still a crime (even if you intend to win, pay back the bank and donate the profits)....
...As Katie Martin noted in her weekend column, a record 61 per cent of investors expect lower yields in 2024, according to Bank of America’s popular fund managers’ survey....
...In the UK, banks including Lloyds Banking Group, Citi and HSBC, have taken the September cue to tighten their in-office mandates....
...Investment banks, meanwhile, are encouraging clients to buy into generative AI....
...of multiple banks in recent months....
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