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...A significant part of the Signa group debt was provided by non-bank financial companies such as Dortmund-based insurer Signal Iduna, a midsized company with 12mn customers, mainly in health and life insurance...
...An outright ban on zero-hours contracts would be controversial even among trade unions....
...Today’s big read For three decades, SVB was the central financing institution for technology and life sciences start-ups in the US before its collapse a year ago....
...Central banks might have to delay interest rate cuts because of stubbornly strong services price inflation, the Bank for International Settlements said....
...It’s another big week for central banks....
...General Motors chief executive Mary Barra, the daughter of a union machinist, comes from a family that has collectively spent more than 80 years working at the company....
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...It’s pretty clear the culture war issues are gonna be pretty central to the next election....
...Family life and professional life were mixed together, which meant we shared so much. That’s what I miss the most.”...
...the piece is reset with the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds from Queen Elizabeth II’s jewellery collection....
...In contrast, financial insecurity is fuelling a boom in sales of life and health insurance in China. Customers tend to buy cover in face-to-face meetings with sales agents....
...Like most life-long Londoners, I have spent a significant amount of my adult life on the Tube....
...Courtney Weaver Bill Browder was the most prominent foreign investor in Moscow after the fall of the Soviet Union....
...If the risks are deemed low, he could be released on a life licence....
...In 1985, he points out, a US man could afford a comfortable middle-class life on 40 weeks of income from a typical full-time job....
...Mainstream economics notoriously confuses wellbeing and quality of life with the more quantitative measure of living standards....
...A huge chunk of that — Rs205bn — came from the sale of a 3.5 per cent stake in state-run Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) in May through a long-delayed initial public offering....
...“Being able to see what’s happening in real time everywhere in the world is something that is going to change our life,” he says, from his headquarters in Paris....
...Their first task was to deliver an energy bailout to help households and companies cope with soaring gas prices....
...It spent most of its life as a straightforward private-equity-backed insurance brokerage firm and expanded quickly through a series of acquisitions....
...The issue was crucial for Ping An because it owns HSBC through its life insurance arm, using the normally reliable HSBC dividend to offset its long-term insurance liabilities....
...It's the insurance company that has failed to collect the proper documentation. It's the ship registry that maybe didn't peek behind the curtain a little bit more....
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...New money flowing into Europe’s rental sector from institutions such as pension funds and insurance companies worldwide increased from $75bn in 2019 to $124bn in 2021; in the US it increased from $193bn...
...Companies that were ‘life term, or companies expected to survive generations, didn’t want to be seen as investing in things that are not good for public health.’...
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