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...Amid New Orleans festivities, rainmakers wonder if the party is over for Delaware Delaware, Inc. may be the enterprise now under the most intense activist threat....
...Financial markets may have hit the buffers last year, but this did make one type of investment a lot more popular: buffered exchange traded funds....
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 14 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Only 60 per cent of workers in south-east Asia are estimated to have bank accounts, Naik said, but ecommerce in the region is growing quickly as more consumers gain access to the financial system....
...Let us know what you think at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. A programming note: FintechFT will take a one-week break in observance of the Easter holiday. The next issue will be April 25....
...“The signals from Australia are not promising,” said Ed Collins, director at UK think-tank InfluenceMap....
...Darren Collins, a teacher at The Sittingbourne School in Kent and winner of the 2020 Interactive Investor Personal Finance Teacher of the Year Award, warns: “I have one student who wants to be a financial...
...Olaf Scholz said the affair had revealed that Germany’s system of financial regulation “needs to be reorganised”. 2....
...But, unlike Disney, Mattel is taking on little of the financial risk in trying to turn its brands into box office and digital hits. “Our approach is capital light....
...You don’t have to be Thomas Piketty to recognise that inequality poses a significant risk to the global system as it stands....
...Yet non-profits remain sceptical of efforts — notably by Japanese megabanks like Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group — and point out loopholes, including the...
...An overly indebted financial system will weigh on long-term growth prospects. It also reinforces the feedback loop between central banks and asset prices....
...The Chinese government has long held a tight grip on the country’s financial system, opening up to trade but closing out competition to its national businesses from foreign institutions....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...(NYT) + (FT) News round-up Sanjeev Gupta attempts to increase transparency of family empire (FT) Anglo American to purchase Sirius Minerals for £405m (FT) BAE Systems to snap up Collins GPS business...
...Is Lockheed Martin a ‘bad’ company because it makes weapons that kill, or a ‘good’ company because it makes missile defence systems?...
...South Korea’s chaebols were the bedrock of that country’s economic miracle but they have also repeatedly rattled the financial system and figured in several scandals, including one that, last year, resulted...
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...Developing risk management systems that are better at modelling a bank’s financial exposures and calculate potential losses RENEWABLE ENERGY Improving the efficiency of solar cells by designing better...
...If Mr Zuckerberg can’t wrestle back control of this runaway system, then Facebook doesn’t deserve the user trust that he says is his paramount goal....
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...in our outlook for 2018 — and further solidified our trajectory toward achieving our long-term targets,” said Jonathan Collins, chief financial officer of Dana....
...Damian Collins, the Conservative MP, has written to Mark Zuckerberg requesting evidence. Forwarded How evil is tech?...
...Rockwell Collins, meanwhile, specialises in avionics, the electronics covering communications, navigation and the hundreds of systems on aircraft....
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