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...Pablo Mendoza, a managing director at Dubai-based Vy Capital, which provided $700mn to the $44bn takeover, has been working along with Silicon Valley entrepreneur Suril Kantaria, who founded health insurance...
...There are of course other important announcements due this week, not least a steady flow of results, probably best described as a smorgasbord, from retailers and drugmakers to technology companies and insurance...
...The chief executives behind Microsoft’s planned $75bn acquisition of Activision made a last-ditch attempt to save the deal in a San Francisco federal courtroom yesterday....
...I continue to the capital, San Juan, a journey of a little over an hour....
...The 51-year-old San Franciscan was expected to be the favourite in the secretive ballot for the company’s top job back in 2017. DD regulars will know how the story ended....
...For the companies, the business opportunity is a captive base of customers depositing paychecks directly into their apps, allowing them to sell additional products such as financial advice and other banking...
...Job moves Pablo Salame, the former Goldman Sachs vice-chairman and co-head of securities, will join Citadel, the $32bn hedge fund run by Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin, as its head of global credit....
...“This is not about replacing judges,” says Daniel Lewis, co-founder of Ravel Law, a San Francisco lawtech company that built the database of judicial behaviour....
...Rivera spent 14 years in Europe from 1907 where he met artists including Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque....
...Mike Cagney, the boss of SoFi, a big online lender specialising in university graduates, plans to set up a captive fund to invest in the company’s own loans, as well as those of its competitors....
...“Pension funds, insurance companies and Reits are all looking for development partners. Individuals can end up making 5-10 per cent on a deal in addition to development, management and leasing fees.”...
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