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...Additional reporting by Kaye Wiggins in Hong Kong...
...Jeb Bush, the son of George HW Bush and brother to George W Bush, the former US presidents, would have made media appearances as part of a marketing campaign for Gideon’s products, according to a draft term...
...Lee declined to say how staff would be split between the two locations, whether he and founding partner George Yang would move to Singapore and whether there would be lay-offs in Hong Kong....
...Georges Elhedery, the bank’s chief financial officer, said that if conditions were right, “we remain intent to have a rolling series of share buybacks”....
...Georges Elhedery, HSBC’s chief financial officer, said on Monday that the bank would “continue to look at our portfolio” and “assess what aligns to the value of our network”....
Billionaire founder takes on challenge after break-up of partnership with US
Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration’s crackdown
Silicon Valley VC group’s lucrative foray into rival nation ends as geopolitical tensions flare up
...A planned sale of its retail network in France to the private equity group Cerberus may fall apart but the bank’s chief financial officer Georges Elhedery told Reuters this week that it was considering selling...
...Once nicknamed the “ex-presidents’ club” for its habit of appointing former political leaders, including George W Bush and onetime UK prime minister John Major as advisers, Carlyle has said it would also...
...George Osborne, the UK’s former chancellor who was at the conference as a partner at his brother’s venture capital firm, 9Yards Capital, said the industry had to invest “for the longer term”, looking through...
...antoine.gara@ft.com; kaye.wiggins@ft.com...
Concerns in government centre on whether oligarch could lay claim to £1.5bn loan in future
...The S&P 500 Equal Weighted index, which gives equal value to each stock, has fallen 0.35 per cent since January, data from Refinitiv shows, writes George Steer in London....
...“They’re obviously trying to scare everyone and send a message,” one former due diligence professional told DD’s Kaye Wiggins....
...One banker based in Singapore said inflows from China “are probably overrunning” the “best expectations of what was going to happen”, DD’s Kaye Wiggins and the FT’s Mercedes Ruehl and Leo Lewis report....
Billionaire owner of club vows to donate proceeds of the sale to victims of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine
...The founders of US groups Carlyle, Apollo and TPG have in recent years handed on to a new generation of dealmakers, while Henry Kravis and George Roberts stepped down as co-chief executives of KKR in October...
...But it appears to be on the rise, DD’s Kaye Wiggins reports in this in-depth piece....
UK chancellor eyeing shake-up in bid to channel more money into aiding ‘levelling up’ agenda
Latest move by US PE group to buy into established companies in bid to improve their digital offerings
...DD’s Kaye Wiggins breaks down the trend and what it means for the sector....
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