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...Chicago-based private equity investor GTCR on Thursday set a new bar for ambition in today’s challenged takeover market with a deal to buy a majority stake in Worldpay from Fidelity National Information...
...“If you didn’t read the news, you wouldn’t have thought anything had happened,” said Mark Kwan, an executive director of Singapore’s Straits Asset Management....
...“Luckin is truly a national enterprise....
...Drop us a line: Due.Diligence@FT.com Broadcom clearly isn’t afraid of a fight....
...And I don’t know why people don’t put them together.” The stand has won him the backing of the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups that normally lean toward small-government Republicans....
...Nick Hogg and Jack Wang join from Jones Lang LaSalle and the National Energy Foundation respectively....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Mr Frank says: “A financial hub is about people and talent, and regulation is not all that important in that. Companies won’t relocate bits of their business to Asia just to escape regulation....
...Groupon, a US coupon marketer that floated this month at $20 a share, had privately placed shares with large institutional investors T Rowe Price, Fidelity and Morgan Stanley Asset Management....
...But such situations would also include the broken acquisition of LandAmerica Financial by Fidelity National, which now-bankrupt LandAmerica had hoped would keep it from having to file for Chapter 11 protection...
...Aren’t regional capitals increasingly a sideshow compared with the national capital?...
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