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...Since July 1, Sequoia Capital China and Qiming Venture Partners have closed $9bn and $2.5bn for China funds from foreign investors, respectively, or more than double the total amount raised by all funds...
...In July, US financial technology group Fidelity National Information Services agreed to sell a majority stake in its merchant payments arm Worldpay to private equity firm GTCR in a $18.5bn deal, this year...
...The deal signals the clout of BDT & MSD Partners, a firm founded last year by the merger of Byron Trott’s BDT merchant bank with the Michael Dell-backed investment group MSD Partners....
...There were “thousands of examples of abuses of sellers by Amazon,” one merchant alleged....
...“The discussions we are having is to potentially partner with a regional bank,” Gray said in an interview....
...Genesis is reportedly considering bankruptcy. It was in this context that we read a recent paper from the Bank for International Settlements....
...The genesis of Ubben’s green-tinted strategy at Inclusive was an investment at US electric utility AES. Ubben said he spent $25mn of his own money to win a board seat in January 2018....
...Lake Nona Fund / LN Sports & Health Tech Fund I, LP . . . Exponent Founders Capital I, LP . . . SH Fund, LP . . . Curated [chef recommends] . . . Race Capital II, LP . . ....
...China Merchants Bank, the country’s third-largest lender by market value, announced the sudden removal of its president Tian Huiyu, per Nikkei Asia....
...Indhira Arrington has joined Ares Management as a managing partner and global chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer....
...That does not so much help the planet as provide a decent income to the rubber-stamp merchants and those investment firms charging high fees for running ethical portfolios....
...Wine merchants report a brisk trade as oenophiles snap up desirable recent vintages....
...Blackstone is funding the deal mostly from its €10bn Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe VI fund. It is subject to regulatory approval....
...Ferguson has sounded out top investors about switching its listing from the UK to the US, a proposal that has caused a transatlantic rift among shareholders at the £14bn plumbing merchant....
...Darren Cohen, a partner in Goldman’s merchant banking division who looks after the firm’s investment in the platform, said the bank was already benefiting from Symphony by streamlining the 25 different messaging...
...In the interim, some producers and merchants have hired more trains to move oil from North Dakota to distant refineries....
...But my main travelling companion in life and work has been my fellow critic and longtime partner Harlan Kennedy....
...The company has been overshadowed by Amazon, which has lured merchants who used to flock to eBay to its own platform....
...He will be joined by Cesar Gueikian as chief merchant officer, Kim Mattoon as chief financial officer and Christian Schmitz as chief production officer....
...The move is akin to how Wall Street’s old merchant banks would seek to have both advisory and investor roles in certain deals....
...In Jeddah, the commercial capital that is home to many prominent merchant families, the contradictions that Prince Mohammed’s rule have brought are stark....
...Her neighbours in the exclusive gated community include her son Jonathan and his partner....
...In lieu of meeting blending obligations, merchant refiners such as PES may purchase federal biofuel credits....
...The genesis of the iPhone, the Libor interest rate scandal, and gender controversy in Silicon Valley are among topics tackled by finalists in this year’s Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the...
...It has also been looking to boost its presence in the US with the recent acquisition of Merchants Online....
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