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...Whether by coincidence or by design, one of the vessels in Gatik’s fleet is called the Buena Vista. The name of its registered owner in the Marshall Islands: Social Club Inc....
...Deutsche Bank has hired Andy Tam from Perella Weinberg Partners as co-head of Americas insurance in the financial institutions group. He will be based in New York....
...News round-up General Atlantic takes first step towards potential US listing (FT) Cigna pulls out of blockbuster deal to create insurance giant with Humana (FT) Occidental Petroleum agrees $12bn deal...
...A non-profit collaboration with Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand, the company offers markets on who will win gubernatorial elections, Senate races and the presidency....
...This is welcome news for prime minister Narendra Modi, who needs the money to finance the country’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and to help fund a revamp of India’s sprawling rail and road networks...
...Are you planning to expand outside of Egypt? Yes, we are exploring a number of countries in Africa and in Asia. What’s the revenue model?...
...Major League Baseball and all 30 of its clubs are suing their insurance providers after recording billions in losses due to its pandemic-shortened 2020 season, played without fans....
...And now Wyelands Bank, which is named after the Welsh country estate the metals magnate owns with his wife, faces a new problem: it could be in line to book tens of millions of pounds in losses, after providing...
...the English Premier League football club Manchester United....
...While some countries define monopolistic behaviour by market share, for example, China’s new guidelines for internet companies are more flexible....
...David Graham Blanchflower, professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and Glasgow university: Hard to know....
...But many football, rugby union and cricket clubs are among those to find their insurance arrangements do not cover pandemics....
...But, he goes on to say, if Mr Sanders wins Iowa, or comes a close second, his chances in New Hampshire look good....
...A legacy of the mixed economy built by Indonesia's founding President Sukarno, many of the country’s SOEs began as privately owned Dutch companies that were nationalised shortly after independence in 1945...
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...In addition to leading Joe Biden in some national polls, he is running ahead of the former vice-president in both Iowa and New Hampshire, the next state in the primary calendar....
...In recent years it’s become a bustling marketplace for trade in the shares of banks, insurance companies and even distressed debt....
...A resident of New Hampshire, Ms Mercado joined C&W Services in August 2017....
...“It’s a small private club with a lot of back-patting.” Still, shareholders are refusing to give up their struggle for more influence....
...Both companies have stepped up their investments in new tech and partnered with other fintech groups, with Mastercard’s £700m purchase of Vocalink marking one of the most visible responses to the potential...
...Juventus has big plans for the new acquisition, as Murad Ahmed lays out in this long-form FT dive that dissects the Italian club’s spending and strategy....
...Some got lucky, including insurance-to-tourism conglomerate Fosun, which acquired English second-tier club Wolverhampton Wanderers for $58m in 2016 and saw the team promoted to the big-money Premier League...
...These include Anbang’s $2bn purchase of New York’s Waldorf Astoria, Dalian Wanda’s takeover of Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment for $3.5bn, and HNA’s $40bn splurge on stakes in companies including...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on April 20, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...For one thing, every homebuyer with a downpayment of less than 20 per cent of the purchase price (if less than C$1m) has to buy insurance against default....
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