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...Where it gets strange is that, sometimes, the two things appear to be much the same. The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...A gaming trailblazer, Adelson was the first westerner to bring the glitz and glamour of Sin City to the former Portuguese colony of Macau, a successful wager that placed him directly at the centre of what...
...He has also faced money-laundering allegations in a Swiss case that was ultimately dropped....
...The Swiss investment firm has also put an end to its stand-off with Tim Haywood, the sacked star fund manager, as it looks to draw a line under a bruising year. Full tale here....
...One Swiss bank executive says that absent such extraordinary support, banks’ loss-absorbing capital buffers “would have been like a brolly in a hurricane”....
...Francisco Pinto-Leite, co-head of leveraged finance at UBS, is planning to retire at the end of the year after almost two decades at the Swiss investment bank, Reuters reports....
...The former British colony boasts the highest rents outside Luanda....
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...North Asia at Julius Baer, the Swiss private banking group....
...Blue Capital unites Colony Capital, the US private equity group, and Groupe Arnault, the investment arm of Bernard Arnault, the luxury goods tycoon who is said to be France’s richest man....
...we will recover from this; I don’t know whether the road is an L recovery, a W recovery, a V recovery, a W-W recovery or will recover....
...Gant owned by the Swiss Maus Frères family group....
...The market subsequently collapsed with the shares trading on Friday at about €31 – well below Mr Arnault’s and Colony’s initial investment....
...Swiss secret In the 1970s – in the good old days of Swiss banking – it used to be unkindly said that “the real Swiss banking secret is the poor performance”....
...It goes without saying that none of the Kiley entities using the UBS name were in any way connected with a certain Swiss bank....
...Altruistic collaboration, complex communication and division of labour make the colony act like a living organism of its own....
...Accor rose 1.1 per cent to €54.74 after Colony Capital and Eurazeo said they would increase their stake in the hotel group to 30 per cent....
...Rene Fasel, the Swiss dentist who heads the International Ice Hockey Federation, worries about his own sport’s future in north America: “Wake up north America, soccer is coming....
...who oppose the Swiss group’s aggressive defence of its patents in Indian courts....
...The prince, who has substantial stakes in the three hotel chains – and also owns the Savoy in London and 25 per cent of the George V in Paris – launched a $3.2bn bid for Fairmont last week with Colony Capital...
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