Hints and tips:
...A different type of mess is now surrounding Lincoln National Corp, the Radnor, Pennsylvania-based insurance company that lends the stadium its name....
...Commercial and strategic advice WINNER: Canadian Pacific Originality: 8; Leadership: 8; Impact: 7; Total: 23 The railway company’s legal team helped in its bid for Kansas City Southern....
...The screen The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation covers more than 4,200 commercial banks, or one lender per 80,000 citizens....
...The triads and these high-level criminal organisations, they're a strategic concern for all of us....
...When the Iran-Contra story finally broke late in 1986, Powell had been in Germany for less than six months, now with three stars and in command of the 75,000 strong V corps, having skipped the normal intermediary...
...American rival....
...“My job isn't to go out and make up American foreign policy,” Mr Boehler said....
...Strategic issues unaddressed: We fear the acquisition of Merian does little to address Jupiter’s strategic challenges, such as the growing concentration of distribution channels in the UK....
...A £1.8bn charge for the payment protection insurance scandal and a sharp rise in provisions for bad loans wiped out almost all profits....
...And we are seeing the Americas at large, including the US, but also Latin American countries, at a later stage of this recovery process....
...The insurer originally won a €22m award in December 2012 at an international arbitration tribunal after the Slovak Republic reformed its public health insurance market....
...Calls on American chief executives to tackle inequality are getting louder, deals are getting bigger and there’s a looming election that could change the face of the world’s financial centre....
...The FT’s John Gapper thinks Buffett may have been blinded by his love of America and everything American....
...“We are pleased to have reached an agreement with the DoJ that maintains the strategic benefits and value creation potential of our combination with Aetna....
...Corp bonds QE has been done before (they hold £10bn) still a potential route if credit mkts do seize up down the line....
...Quick hits Some other FT stories that have caught my eye this week Which football team should an undecided American woman in London support?...
...Anbang began a rapid global expansion in 2012, buying banks, insurance companies and property around the world, including the historic Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York and Strategic Hotels & Resorts....
...Last week, he closed the company’s US stores for employee seminars on racial bias after police were called on two African-American men who were waiting for a friend at a Philadelphia Starbucks....
...Stifel Financial Corp and Everbright Sun Hung Kai has formed a strategic partnership that will focus on cross-border co-operation on private capital raising, new issue listings and mergers and acquisitions...
...However, the $3tn American healthcare market is undergoing a big shake-up. The unthinkable is readily contemplated. HIV medicine delivered by Amazon drone, for example....
...Now SpaceX owns the most powerful launcher in the world — although still not as mighty as the Saturn V rockets that sent Apollo astronauts to the moon — its importance to US strategic interests is likely...
...FSG said in a filing that it had raised $107m in capital from Citic, Chinese state-owned insurance company China Taiping and another company called Trinity Gate....
...One plan is for the sale of a stake in Huaxia Life Insurance to Zhongtian Financial....
...As legal counsel for the global insurance business, she noted that a company that sells promises cannot operate without the rule of law....
...One American financier claims Macron had told him to go to Davos, and he readily accepted....
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