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...Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the C$400bn global investment group, told my colleague Josephine Cumbo that the UK stood out because of its “pro business” stance....
...Only a handful of bankers there from the nine global IPO co-ordinators were selected to deliver their recommendations: Bank of America’s Soofian Zuberi, Citigroup’s Tyler Dickson and Morgan Stanley’s Henrik...
...Dealmaker of the year: Mukesh Ambani When global markets were gripped with panic and dealmakers were predicting a huge slowdown in activity, the Indian market proved to be the unlikely destination for the...
...And that goes for other markets too....
...That was the message delivered by Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, as more than 2,000 bankers and executives tuned in to a virtual conference in April....
...Earlier this year, when Congressman Al Green asked seven CEOs of major US banks — including JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon and Citigroup’s Michael Corbat — to raise their hand if they thought they would be...
...Also from December 31, Citigroup’s 2020 preview looked like this: Our Global Bear Market Checklist (BMC) suggests that this bull market, even as it approaches its eleventh birthday, has further to run....
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...Mr Fink has been among most frequent contacts of Mr al-Rumayyan, according to people with knowledge of their relationship, providing regular briefings on the state of the global economy and markets....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...But it is MUFG’s global growth strategy that really singles the bank and its chief executive out from the crowd....
...Reed Hastings never had to work out a way of collecting money without credit cards, or to fret about data servers — actual physical boxes holding 170 terabytes of House of Cards et al — being stranded at...
...It will also seek to sign up Chinese stars and help make them global, according to people with direct knowledge of the transaction. That’s ambitious....
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...(FT’s Global Markets Overview) Ukraine: The US and EU on Thursday implored president Viktor Yanukovich to pull Ukraine away from the brink of civil war after clashes between anti-government protesters and...
...The prince shot to prominence as a global investor through his 1991 acquisition of a $590m stake in Citigroup, since when Kingdom has expanded into sectors such as hotels and media, including owning 7 per...
...Barclays turned to Qatar Holding, a subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority, and Challenger – an investment vehicle of Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar and his...
...- Why the Acme Brick Company et al are Berkshire’s secret weapons....
...It clearly gives Citigroup an advantage to be the only bank in the world that has a global presence.”...
...Alongside Abu Dhabi, Qatar has been an active investor in European banking stocks, holding a minority stake in Credit Suisse and also into Barclays alongside Sheikh Mansour....
...Why would the Chinese, Russians, Brazilians et al make the same mistake when it is very clearly in the public domain?...
...This structural transformation is rarely the product of unassisted market forces....
...The Saudi investment – a joint arrangement between the prince and the Kingdom Holding Company that he controls – came after months of talks and was a “strategic stake”, Kingdom Holding said....
...On Monday, Standard Chartered’s private equity arm paid $75m for a minority stake in Construction Products Holding, a subsidiary of Saudi Binladin Group....
...Either the sovereigns that matter will, after many years of austerity, restore solvency or there will be orderly restructuring of Italy, Spain et. al. in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland....
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