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...In March, French banking giant Société Générale withdrew its financial support from NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG project, proposed in Brownsville, Texas....
...An 80-metre-high landmark, it was topped by a pyramid (inspired by the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus) that overlooked the Rio de la Plata, so that its shipping-magnate owner could keep an eye on his fleet....
...of former Wirecard chief Markus Braun seeks suspension of trial (FT) EY scraps US holiday bonuses as economic outlook darkens (FT) Booming Chinese family offices recruit top bankers in Singapore (FT) Rio...
...I imagined big, tall buildings like in Rio de Janeiro. And then they showed me Hollywood, and that was a huge disappointment!”...
...“I go down to Rio and I’m treated like a king everywhere I go,” he said of his early days in charge....
...The then UK prime minister, David Cameron, famously sent round the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, to strongly suggest enough was enough....
...Greensill Capital, a once high-flying lending start-up that counted David Cameron as an adviser, collapsed in March 2021 after GFG defaulted on $5bn of debt....
...Additional reporting by Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe...
...However, the supply chain finance group, which is backed by SoftBank and advised by former UK prime minister David Cameron, has in recent years provided billions in financing to the acquisitive metals magnate...
...Within two years, he was beating the then Olympic breaststroke champion, South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh, at the 2014 Commonwealth Games....
...Another, who carried out due diligence before working with Osborne, said: “He is the sort of guy who will turn up behind you on a flight to Rio. He is a real man of mystery.”...
...Rio Tinto has named Isabelle Deschamps as its chief legal officer and head of external affairs, replacing Barbara Levi....
...It comes as Mr Gupta’s Liberty House group is locked in a dispute with mining company Rio Tinto over the final payment for the $500m purchase of Europe’s largest aluminium smelter....
...“He is the sort of guy who will turn up behind you on a flight to Rio. He is a real man of mystery,” said one tech investor. DD will be watching to see where he pops up next....
...Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson will step down within the next year after the mining company’s destruction of a 46,000-year-old sacred indigenous site in Australia last year. More here....
...On many of his transactions, Mr Gupta has worked closely with Greensill, a start-up founded in 2011 by Lex Greensill, an Australian who claims to have been an adviser to both David Cameron and Barack Obama...
...Mr Gupta’s Liberty House group is locked in a dispute with mining company Rio Tinto over the final payment for last year’s $500m purchase of Europe’s largest aluminium smelter....
...the level of funding through to Rio, which was a massive boost to the system.”...
...It is led by Lex Greensill, a former Morgan Stanley and Citi banker who was an adviser to former UK prime minister David Cameron....
...Renato G Flôres Jr Director, International Intelligence Unit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...“It’s the pool they use in every other international competition now, so it feels like every other world championships,” said Australian swimmer Cameron McEvoy....
...Above a story about a “six-time deportee” Mexican in Texas arrested for drunk-driving, Breitbart breaks into song: “ Wall, wall, wall your south, gently by the Rio ”....
...The US already has about 700 miles of barriers of various sorts, but to complete the full stretch a big chunk of wall would need to shadow the twists and turns of the Rio Grande — and it can hardly be built...
...Photo Jonathan Bachman/Reuters July 13: David Cameron, the UK’s outgoing prime minister, and his wife Samantha Cameron, embrace with their children Nancy, Elwen and Florence outside 10 Downing Street in...
...Perhaps she should have worn one of David Cameron’s Savile Row suits . . . Rio bravo!...
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