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...Holding them meant taking a chair at restructuring talks, sitting opposite sovereign officials who couldn’t care less about the expected returns on your spreadsheet....
...On Monday, Hui said that the group was forming a new risk management committee, with state representatives holding four of seven seats....
...Investors, by and large, will not be forced to sell their US debt holdings because of the downgrade, and the country’s cost of borrowing is not expected to go up....
...Banga, currently vice-chair of General Atlantic, a US private equity group, was the chief executive of payments company Mastercard until the end of 2020....
...who previously worked at Dentsu and was regarded as one of the most influential figures ahead of the Tokyo Games, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of receiving bribes from former executives of Aoki Holdings...
...The founder and former chair of Japan’s biggest maker of business suits, Aoki Holdings, was also arrested in August, followed last month by the chair of Kadokawa, a major publisher which was closely involved...
...The payments are due to start in January 2024....
...Delysium / KUROSEMI INC. ??? Orderly ??? Sui Token Warrant ???...
...From $27mn of payments to an agent to bribe officials in Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea, Glencore secured profits more than triple of that....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 19. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...hacks of dozens of official Ukrainian websites....
...The move banned US companies that provide critical services to the app — which also allows users to transfer money and make payments — from dealing with WeChat....
...There was a March release date given for Gran Turismo 7 and the unfortunate slippage of Grand Theft Auto V from November to March. Axios has more....
...After adding support for buying, holding and selling cryptocurrency in the US last year, the feature will roll out for PayPal’s UK users starting this week....
...The US payments group’s USD Coin, the world’s second-biggest stablecoin, will be exclusively backed by cash and short-term US government debt beginning in September, Circle said on Monday....
...The company’s investors were surprised last month to discover that it had sold part of its cryptocurrency holdings within weeks for a $101m profit....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...The telecoms industry’s bill will end up being closer to $95bn once payments to satellite companies for them to stop using the frequencies are included....
...support “select cryptocurrencies” on its network, allowing more stores to accept them as payment....
...Another thing to bear in mind is that all of this comes in the context of a wider crackdown on official bitcoin intermediation in China....
...The Department of Justice is investigating whether Sallyport’s former management knew about improper payments by a partner on its contracts allegedly to Iraqi government officials....
...The rains have mercifully come early to Thailand this year, so it may not be until next year that the official inertia is tested. In the meantime, everybody will carry on holding their breath....
...WeChat has more than 1bn user accounts in China and is an essential app for messaging, payments and other functions....
...Soon after, ByteDance’s investors including General Atlantic and Sequoia Capital began holding discussions with Trump officials, hoping to persuade them to accept changes to ByteDance’s voting and organisational...
...Both Neiman Marcus and JCPenney have missed bond payments in recent weeks. J Crew’s roots are as a door-to-door clothing business, Popular Club Plan, that began in 1947....
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