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...The US securities regulator says Texas-based Agridime LLC and its owners — Josh Link and Jed Wood — have been running a $191mn Ponzi scheme selling “Cattle contracts” in 15 states....
...Earlier this year KKR agreed to pump new capital into one of its portfolio companies, Heartland Dental, to help it refinance a portion of its debt....
...It needs to really focus on that customer heartland that made it the attractive brand it was to begin with.”...
...WorldQuant’s headquarters is in the hedge fund heartland of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, but its offices in 13 countries are spread across many non-traditional financial centres, such as Ramat Gan, Israel...
...But many of Apollo’s holdings lost value in March, forcing the firm into writedowns that ranged from 22 per cent in private equity to 15 per cent in structured credit and 5 per cent in its heartland “direct...
...If that now sounds otherworldly, it’s partly because Black went on to invent a new kind of financial institution, which has all but supplanted banks for a large swath of American families and heartland businesses...
...Money could also be given to local municipalities to build their own systems, like the 1935 Rural Electrification Administration programme that transformed America’s heartland and increased productivity...
...It has become a vital source of funding for heartland businesses that many banks now consider too difficult, or too risky, to touch....
...A crowd of suits and red ties slowly makes its way through a welcome arch made from red balloons, towards a temporary stage bearing a huge red banner that reads: “Grand Opening Risever Machinery, LLC.”...
...air of unreality hung in the air two weeks ago as Waymo — the company that began life as Google’s driverless car project — lifted the lid on its secretive testing facility in California’s agricultural heartland...
...Various lists of where millennials are most actively buying houses all show a willingness to move off the coasts into more affordable heartland communities....
...Since the decline in oil prices began in mid-2014, activity in the Eagle Ford, one of the heartlands of the shale revolution, has slowed sharply....
...But the fastest growing region for beer sales is Africa, which is both SABMiller’s heartland — the company began as South African Breweries — and a continent to which AB InBev has almost no exposure....
...The portfolio manager was raised in what he describes as a “blue collar” community in Scranton, the former coal-mining heartland of Pennsylvania....
...on Thursday his country was entering its “most dangerous 10 days” since independence in 1991 and was struggling to counter pro-Russian separatists on the verge of taking over the industrialised eastern heartland...
...The proud history of this club in the heartland of northern England helps it command undying loyalty from fans....
...But muscling into Manhattan signals an expansion into an art-market heartland. “Art Miami complements Art Basel Miami Beach, and we complement Frieze New York....
...Its heartland is Brattle Street, known as Tory Row since it was originally home to a clique of wealthy landowning loyalists who rejected the Declaration of Independence....
...Comment, analysis and other offerings from Thursday’s FT, John Gapper: Business should help the heartland If Harvard Business School graduates ruled the political world, Mitt Romney would be the US president...
...Ontario has long been Canada’s industrial heartland. But declining manufacturing output, thanks largely to the troubled auto sector, has put the province on shakier ground....
...Proclaiming that the US is always right and virtuous may go down well in the American heartland, but it tends to antagonise foreigners – and that is simply counterproductive....
...From its South African heartland, it has expanded into emerging economies and developed markets, deploying its marketing and distribution skills to good effect....
...The US bank has about 3,000 staff in Asia, half of which are located in Nomura’s heartland of Tokyo....
...With a background as a 30-year veteran of InterContinental – including four years on the board and five managing hotels in Mr Kwek’s Asian heartland – he must have gone into the job with his eyes open....
...As a 30-year veteran of InterContinental Hotels (IHG) – including four years on the board and five managing hotels in Mr Kwek’s Asian heartland – he must have gone into the job with his eyes open....
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