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...Lemonade, the SoftBank-backed insurance start-up that completed an initial public offering earlier this month, has launched as a B Corporation — a business certified for achieving high environmental and...
...Covid-19 patients have been treated for free whether or not they hold health insurance....
...Cleavages in UK society are deepening and widening — and, what is really scary, is that they are starting to align (in that those who are disadvantaged in one area are disadvantaged in a whole spectrum of...
...According to the World Bank, one-third of all food production in the world is lost or wasted every year, while 800m people are suffering from hunger....
...But few may be aware that it once housed the London base of the Hanseatic League, one of the most successful trade alliances in history. (BBC) Video of the day Are corporations paying enough tax?...
...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....
...He serves on the board of trustees at the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is chairman of the Tate....
...private sector arm of the World Bank....
...Thomas Hoenig, vice-chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, told the Financial Times on Thursday that he supported stress tests as part of the regular examination process, but not “as a be-all...
...There were billions of dollars of losses for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation when Colonial went bust in 2009....
...At SWIFT, he was also the chief architect of SWIFTNet, the backbone worldwide secure network currently connecting 8,000 banks and 1,000 corporations, and servicing daily the world economy....
...A broader concern about China Inc’s acquisition spree stems from questions about why it is happening....
...From “activist investors” to investment banks, from management consultants to asset managers, from high-frequency traders to insurance companies, today, financiers dictate terms to American business, rather...
...(Hence why society came up with the whole concept of auction rules, exchanges and fixed prices)....
...Harvard University conducted an experiment in 2011, applying for 1,700 jobs with two résumés – one that said the applicant was treasurer to their college’s LGBT society, and one that did not....
...Sophisticated debt instruments allowed corporations to hedge risk much more efficiently....
...Seagram took up the first six floors of office space while the Eagle Pencil Company, watchmaker United States Time Corporation, typewriter maker Olivetti, the Public Relations Society of America and television...
...But some believe they retain a place in American society, and customers often defect when they disappear. JPMorgan is one of the few large US banks increasing its branch network....
...It was only in 2004 that Pfizer became one of the first big companies in the US to adopt majority voting in boardroom elections....
...Many had not heard of ACS (some “thought we were buying the American Cancer Society”, says Ms Burns)....
...Many saw no problem throwing big banks and big corporations into the same conceptual basket....
...Back in the early 2000s, I did so because it looked like cheap insurance against the beginnings of a nasty credit bubble. It isn’t so cheap now. But it still has insurance value....
...In the US, final rules on living wills for large US banks are due out next month jointly from the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is participating in both sets of talks, but is also a big proponent of using the settlement to provide relief to struggling homeowners by writing down the principal...
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