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...Players continue to flock to GTA V a decade after it was first released, thanks to a steady stream of new content and add-ons from its developer, Rockstar....
...Enter a new Spac. Arrival is merging with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, paying a huge premium in order to add $300mn to its balance sheet....
...Arrival’s deal with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V values the company at $524mn....
...At a dinner soon after, Jones impishly starts provoking Don by humming Wynette’s recent hit song “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”....
...Plus, we have a Q&A with the PayPal alum who founded a new start-up aimed at helping merchants adapt quickly to the growing number of payment options in the market, and we give an update on Yuga Labs’ “land...
...He had made a groundbreaking proposal at the conference, urging US regulators to allow the automating of risk management in financial markets, using the financial plumbing developed for digital assets....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...Reach out to us at imani.moise@ft.com or sid.v@ft.com....
...Six months earlier, the Beatles had moved the headquarters of Apple Corps, their business empire, to number 3....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...Plus, a study casts doubt on whether taking hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for Covid-19, and Warner Music scored the biggest US IPO of 2020 on Wednesday....
...Plus, the FT’s Tom Hancock has been quarantined after reporting on the coronavirus in Wuhan....
...Stock Exchange this year and Manchester City’s owner has agreed to sell a $500m stake to private equity firm Silver Lake in a deal that breaks a record in sports valuations....
...Corp bonds QE has been done before (they hold £10bn) still a potential route if credit mkts do seize up down the line....
...The deal will be funded by $14bn of debt and preferred equity plus $3bn in cash by Blackstone....
...s Cup, a Scots v English game organised by the parliamentary golf society....
...People with pensions savings above the current lifetime allowance of £1m who have not taken out available tax protections could see a cut of up to £16,500 in excess tax charges, plus a £7,500 increase to...
...Social media now sends almost as much traffic to news sites as Google — 36 per cent v 41 per cent. Traffic diversion on this scale poses a dilemma for publishers....
...“It’s certainly not a plumbing issue.” Some experts say China’s insistence on strict internet censorship is fundamentally at odds with the new mission its leaders are promoting....
...Following the US Supreme Court’s decision not to hear Argentina’s case earlier this year the country was left with a choice: pay out more than $1bn plus interest to holdout creditors led by Elliott Management...
...A slightly daunting 380-plus pages, the book has plenty of cosy, sensible advice, such as treating staff well (“be a father to your workforce”), always do your best, focus on quality not price and so forth...
...The V-280 Valor is in contention for a US military programme, designed to fly twice as fast as the helicopters it could replace....
...Less than a month ago, the plus-size online and catalogue retailer said it was on track to meet profit expectations of about £103m this year....
...But the fridge is ancient and the glass base is gone (replaced by something ill-fitting I foraged from a skip), plus the icebox door is broken, plus I have had to create a compartment for the milk with green...
...He (virtually all house breakers are hes) gathered up my son’s Christmas present, a Nintendo 3DS plus games, my husband’s new iPad, a computer, my purse, two iPhones (one of them mine) and a really good...
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