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...Mr Shih said the Chinese leadership has longstanding concerns about the Big Tech companies, and now the regulator has decided to “flex its muscle” in a sweeping crackdown on internet portals to demonstrate...
...By classifying drivers as independent contractors, Uber does not have to pay costs for benefits such as health insurance and sick leave that they must offer employees....
...Data released on Tuesday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation showed that net income across the banking industry rose 27 per cent from a year earlier in the first quarter, to a record $56bn....
...Last year, a federal judge in San Francisco sentenced Salman to three years in prison and fined him more than $738,000....
...He had been prosecuted after alerting shareholders to a fraud at Equity Funding Corporation of America, an insurance company....
...There were billions of dollars of losses for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation when Colonial went bust in 2009....
...The class action suit was filed in 2008, shortly after AIG was rescued by the US Treasury and Federal Reserve as it racked up huge losses on insurance written on plunging mortgage securities....
...(FastFT) Comcast “submitted a lengthy document to federal regulators to justify its $45 billion proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable....
...Investment strategy: A value investor and a disciple of Ben Graham, Mr Watsa invests via his insurance company Fairfax Financial Holdings....
...Government price caps for petrol have also made sugar-based ethanol less attractive for Brazil’s flex-fuel cars....
...The number of Americans who claimed unemployment insurance for the first time leapt 78,000 last week to 439,000....
...And here’s the I-don’t-care-about-watching-Ghana v Uruguay version (emphasis FT Alphaville’s): The Miller-Moore provision, which was included in the House bill last year, never made it into the Senate version...
...., Inc., which was formed in 1950 and focuses on highly specialized insurance lines; far more, we believe, have joined other, larger companies....
...facilitated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)....
...“I think the bigger holders now of securitisations are insurance companies and pension funds.”...
...For that reason, if private capital cannot rescue AIG, a temporary federal bridge loan – not a federal bail-out – is in order. The writer is chairman and chief executive officer of C.V. Starr....
...In the view of several present and former AIG executives, Mr Sullivan was a brilliant insurance man but the group had become much more than an insurance company and he lacked a deep understanding of the...
...Citigroup agreed to buy most of its assets and liabilities in a deal brokered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...A Czech financier and an employee of US insurance company AIG have been indicted by US authorities for allegedly taking part in an illegal scheme to bribe top Azerbaijan officials to buy its state oil company...
...Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the recently ousted chairman of AIG, the world’s largest insurance company, has always been a tough businessman....
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