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...Its new fund — known as Strategic Investment Partners V — plans to buy risky debt, including junior loans and convertible bonds, as well as preferred stock....
...Most damning of all, French president Emmanuel Macron described the alliance as “brain-dead” in 2019....
...The French president and EU officials called on Vladimir Putin not to use a terror attack on a Moscow concert hall, which has been claimed by the Isis militant group, as a pretext to expand the war in Ukraine...
...a smaller investment in French start-up Mistral and rolling out AI in Microsoft products widely....
...Now chief executive François-Henri Pinault is back with another transaction that indicates big changes afoot at the French luxury group — including a new alliance with Mayhoola, the Qatari fund run by Sheikha...
...Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...For example, this newer document lists Geos LLC, a Russian private company headquartered in Novorossiysk, as the seller....
...NSO Group hits zero value Israel’s NSO Group has been deemed worthless to its private equity backers, just three years after they bought the maker of the notorious Pegasus spyware at a $1bn valuation....
...News Corp was behind the complaint alongside French-language newspapers Le Figaro and Le Soir....
...In 2019, groups including the Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale (APIG) complained before the watchdog that Google had not negotiated with them “in good faith”....
...Clearly Apple is the main target, but an old West Coast alliance of convenience has also been allowed to expire....
...Cyber attacks and scams intensifyAn unusual alliance of big banks and telecoms companies is trying to convince tech giants to help them fight financial fraud by joining their Stop Scams UK group....
...The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which tracks data on the health of democracies, recently reclassified the country as an “electoral autocracy”....
...The deal between S&P Global and IHS is likely to face scrutiny from antitrust watchdogs over the immense power an alliance between the two groups could wield....
...and alliance partner of the past two decades....
...(Vanity Fair) Powering up Volkswagen chief Herbert Diess isn’t giving up on the German carmaker’s aspirations to enter the electric car ring, competing with the likes of Tesla and the Renault-Nissan alliance...
...But the publicity-shy Briton has spent about £400m on sporting enterprises including the French club. And there’s more to come....
...This year, five large French companies have faced activist campaigns, according to Richard Thomas, the Paris-based American who runs the shareholder advisory group at Lazard....
...But critics within Renault say he’s failed to heal the rift that Ghosn’s arrest created between the French carmaker and its alliance partner Nissan....
...alliance partner Nissan....
...“We want to avoid any moral hazard . . . governments should not just shell out money,” says Lars Machenil, chief financial officer of BNP Paribas, the French bank....
...“The initial V-shaped recovery was not achieved because he was a foreigner, but it was because he was Carlos Ghosn,” says Yutaka Suzuki, a former Nissan executive tipped to become the Japanese group’s CEO...
...However, despite the new model, we expect group sales to decline this year and the group to book a significant operating loss....
...Should Mr Scholz and his partner fail in a final ballot next month, the SPD will be under pressure to quit an alliance with Ms Merkel. Tobias Buck has more....
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