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...The central bank’s “pledged supplementary lending” programme, a quasi-fiscal facility for cut-price loans used in past stimulus pushes, increased the pace of lending 12 per cent in December....
...City veteran Gerry Grimstone, who stepped down as the UK’s investment minister last year, has joined Bain & Co as an adviser on a project advising Saudi Arabia’s investment ministry....
...Apollo’s lending business originated $23bn in loans in the latest quarter to finance companies such as semiconductor group Wolfspeed, AT&T and Air France....
...News round-up Police raid more than 20 offices and premises in Adler Real Estate probe (FT) Pension schemes argue London listing reforms would damage City (FT) PwC tells UK staff to expect smaller pay...
...Perhaps nowhere beats Norwich in lending its streets a faux-Manhattan energy....
...Job moves Ares has appointed Kort Schnabel, a partner and co-head of the firm’s US direct lending strategy, as co-president....
...The ties stretch far beyond lending....
...Short-term loans made through the iPhone maker’s new Apple Pay Later service will be made through a wholly owned subsidiary, Apple Financing LLC....
...Since then Ravitch has worked on deals involving more than 20 teams across different sports, including Joe Tsai’s Brooklyn Nets, David Beckham’s Inter Miami and Steve Ballmer’s Clippers basketball franchise...
...In 2010, HSBC commissioned The Great British Business Report from his Next Big Thing consultancy as part of a small business lending promotion....
...Despite its headquarters being 7,000 miles away in Los Angeles, Oaktree had for months been discreetly pulling the strings on a sprawling tourist resort near Shanghai designed to look like the Italian city...
...Is the expensive, city-centric salad group that markets itself like a tech company worth buying shares in?...
...The SEC last week warned Coinbase, the first major US cryptocurrency exchange to list publicly, that it would sue the company if it launched a new digital asset lending product called Lend....
...Smart reads Food fight Greggs and Pret A Manger have long dominated the lunch rush in the City, coexisting as they catered to different crowds....
...(Bloomberg) Put it all on credit From Pelotons to a pair of sneakers, nearly everything online can be bought now and paid for later thanks to the onslaught of interest-free lending start-ups like Klarna...
...The California-based firm owns entertainment group Endeavor and is best known for buying tech companies such as Dell, and more recently investing in Manchester City football club....
...Barings — in common with the other Accepting Houses — was starting to suffer the erosion of acceptance credits, its most profitable and reliable banking business, in the face of cheaper lending from domestic...
...They join the likes of HPS, which recently closed a $9bn fund, and Apollo, which launched a $12bn direct lending business backed by Mubadala earlier this year....
...Between signing that deal in 2006 and closing it in 2008, the financial crisis unfolded and the two firms had to get their lending banks to buck up in order to fund the bridge loans....
...to cash-strapped banks in smaller cities and rural areas....
...Otro will have games, quizzes and other content, as well as video shot by teams based in six cities around Europe that are among the continent’s biggest football centres: Barcelona, Madrid, London, Manchester...
...Across the globe we can see vital signs of citizens, cities, states, companies and investors taking action where their world leaders will not....
...“Aggressive lending practices by the GSEs this cycle have been an important factor in the degree of over-investment and over-valuation of multi-family properties in certain key markets,” says Michael Shaoul...
...The City watchdog said last week that half of all adults in the UK were financially vulnerable, with millions failing to pay bills....
...It has raised concerns about due process in the kingdom at a time when executives were studying proposals to invest in some of the heir-apparent’s grandiose projects, not least a $500bn city in the desert...
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