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...Investment banks and private conglomerates, known as chaebols, poured money into the sector, seeing new opportunities to cash in....
...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....
...Staff at the bank will miss a certain line item on someone’s bank statement or a certain form of income . . ....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
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...It has had to raise more than $1bn from its existing investors and tap credit lines from banks to shore up its financial position....
...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery from here given the many months [or] years it will take for full repair, but it feels good now.”...
...Unless you’re in Asia, the region that has the worst record on gender diversity, in which case, as you were....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...Westerback joins from the private funds group at UBS Investment Bank where he spent a decade....
...“We have entered into [memorandums of understanding] with various commercial banks to the tune of around Rs100bn,” said V Rama Manohara Rao, APCRDA special commissioner....
...But the company had stretched its balance sheet by the time the economic storm swept across the region....
...(FT) Journalism v Silicon Valley The media has lost control of production and distribution to the opaque algorithms of Google and Facebook....
...ENTHUSIASM From Network Briefing (September 16, 1999): Internet reward-point “bank” Beenz.com Inc yesterday revealed it has raised $20m in private cash in its third round of venture capital financing....
...He reportedly outbid three kings for it, including Britain’s King George V – today it remains the only rare stamp not in the Queen’s collection....
...A volatile week is on pace to conclude with five-day gains for most indices across the region....
...Shrewd moment: Berkshire received a 10 per cent coupon and five-year warrants giving it the right to buy Goldman Sachs stock at a distress-sale price, in return for investing in the bank in September 2008...
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...Britain’s seemingly insatiable appetite for coffee has lifted sales by a third at Benugo, the coffee bar and restaurant chain, that serves visitors to London’s V&A museum, the BFI Southbank and Edinburgh...
...One of the main ambitions of the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme is to encourage more development in the regions. In London, the opposite is true....
...Krugman v Estonia: the operaBrazil: inflation targetting thrown to the winds Five things we have learned In the run-up to the March election, political risk insurance is the new must-have thing in Kenya.Russian...
...Bhatia adds: “In line with other operators for that region, India is a growth market....
...that inspired its name. http://on.ft.com/RFKHvq Kuwait closes in on BofA’s London HQ The Kuwaiti government is closing in on a £400m deal to acquire Bank of America’s European headquarters, marking what...
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