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...For example: if Generic Greek God Capital is buying Widgetmaker Inc, 70 per cent of the equity it ponies up might come from one of its LBO funds....
...In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual, which is essential for accessing health insurance for a disorder, put gambling on par with drug and alcohol addiction....
...Cards giant American Express gave a glimpse into its thinking last month, when it filed a series of patents for ecommerce and electronic business transactions in the metaverse, as well as systems for trading...
...And it has been for a very long time. Scaringe has been pining to run his own car company since he was a 17-year-old growing up on the Atlantic coast of Florida, just south of Cape Canaveral....
...mutual aid groups — many of which are still active....
...“[Global Atlantic] sells annuities . . . largely to individuals in their fifties and sixties managing their own retirement wealth,” KKR co-president Scott Nuttall, below, explained on Tuesday....
...“They want a more level playing field for the banks. Retail payments are so dominated by Alibaba and Tencent while banks are less active in electronic payments.”...
...He sees a long-term future for Sony businesses that have little in common with entertainment, such as life insurance and medical equipment, which helped to compensate for its electronics losses at times...
...Amazon has bought an online pharmacy and entered into a joint venture, Haven, with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway, which aims to create a new kind of health insurance for the companies’ 1m employees....
...(Reuters) EA creates esports division Electronic Arts is pushing into esports with a new branch of the company: the EA Competitive Gaming Division....
...Many of these new investors “are playing a bit of a different game than the classic venture one”, says John Backus, co-founder at New Atlantic Ventures, a venture capital group....
...Mr Musk’s plans for a colony on Mars — he calls it “extinction insurance” — still seem a distant prospect....
...These absurdist and ironic twists were all very well, I said to the V&A exhibition’s co-curators Catherine Flood and Gavin Grindon, but were they effective?...
...Awkward (Financial Times) Moscow’s ‘political technologists’ specialise in creating pure spectacle (Financial Times) Sleaze v spin in Mexico’s race for reform (Financial Times) The SEC is turning into...
...Those successes have emboldened regulators on both sides of the Atlantic....
...That set the stage for Kodak to sell the patents for $525m to Intellectual Ventures, which will collect future royalties....
...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...
...Indonesia Panin Life stake Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Insurance and Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance are among the companies shortlisted to buy a minority stake in Indonesia’s Panin Life for about $200 million,...
...– notably Samsung Life Insurance, which owns 7.5 per cent of the company....
...Samsung Electronics in China expects the country’s technology goods demand will grow by only 7% in 2012, down from 10% last year, the FT reports....
...For decades, they have been successfully co-opted to submit to western-dominated institutions, leaving them with little motivation to build their own....
...But the shift in the UK to a US-style “revolving door” has reopened debate on both sides of the Atlantic on the merits of the practice....
...They derived a competitive edge from their reputation for integrity and mutual trust....
...There was some good news for banks. The number of banks on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s “Problem List” fell from 888 to 865 in the second quarter, the first decline since 2006....
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