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...“This is my retirement from Citi, but I don’t plan to disappear,” Ybarra told the Financial Times. “I don’t think I am just going to play golf, but I don’t know what is next.”...
...We trudged up towards Shadyside, a leafy residential neighbourhood densely packed with restaurants and cafés. This, Samii said, is one of the most lucrative areas for an Uber courier....
...“We just don’t need that type of heavy management structure and local governance and processes.” Additional reporting by Arash Massoudi in London...
...(DD notes Wilding is not the typical chair of a British carpet company; we don’t think there are too many others who own a 200ft-long superyacht, complete with a see-through grand piano onboard.)...
...The staff worked remotely from the island but also took part in volunteer activities — an attempt to demonstrate that digital nomads can benefit the host community and don’t have to be disconnected and aloof...
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...“We used to say 99 per cent of our assets walk out the door every night; now, they don’t walk in the door, so they’re all out the door every day,” Van Gorp acknowledged earlier this year....
...Free heating, no queue in the café, plenty of vacant meeting rooms, and best of all no colleagues! Responses have been edited for length and clarity....
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...But these don’t detract from its appeal as a stellar shrunken laptop....
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...Citi said: “Having made the difficult decisions to exit certain consumer markets which don’t fit our strategy, we are focused on five core and interconnected businesses....
...“I don’t know what you’re referencing,” he says. “I don’t want to speak of something that you’re reading off of your iPad.” He relights his Cuban cigar....
...“I don’t think of myself as sex symbol,” says a stewardess in Julia Cooke’s social history of Pan American Airways and the female flight attendants who flew with the carrier in the 1960s and 70s....
...The benefits to banks of having their staff work from home will “erode over time”, Citigroup’s investment banking boss Paco Ybarra warned as he made the case for offices hollowed out by the coronavirus pandemic...
...Borders went bankrupt in 2011 and B&N ate through several chief executives in the struggle, opening in-store cafés and selling CDs and DVDs next to books....
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...In the time of Covid, we don’t need more to stress us out.”...
...“Charities don’t hit the wall as fast as companies do, because they don’t usually have much debt.”...
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...Don’t hate the player. Blackstone: under the arches A lot of Londoners have a soft spot for the city’s Victorian railway arches, which house everything from hipster cafés to mechanics’ workshops....
...The New York-based US Court of International Trade issued a temporary order on Friday banning American customs agents from collecting duties from PrimeSource Building Products Inc, after the company filed...
...In Europe, which accounts for two-thirds of SSP’s revenue (inc. UK), IATA forecasts Q3 capacity down 45% vs. down 90% in Q2....
...But there are limits on how interesting it can be to watch an 18-year-old driving around Los Angeles buying coffees from different cafés, or having a facial at a spa resort....
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