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...US financial technology group FIS last month announced plans to spin off Worldpay just four years after paying $43bn for the group in a deal now seen as the high watermark for the consolidation then gripping...
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...The Washington-based group, which dubbed itself the “unified” voice of the internet industry, will shut at the end of the year after both Microsoft and Uber, among others, pulled their financial support,...
...“Anti-vaxxers have also manoeuvred themselves into political debates here, especially among conservative groups.”...
...The Burton-Taylor report noted that the US company had generally seen an increase in the number of clients “seeking a single, unified data source”....
...The first, expected to play out over the next few years, is whether the strategy that has finally unified Sony’s strengths in content and hardware will genuinely meet the hopes that it has raised with investors...
...As of September, the total assets invested via Vanguard’s roboadvisory joint venture with Ant Group, Bang Ni Tou, had swelled to Rmb3.5bn ($530m), nearly 500 per cent higher than June’s Rmb600m....
...Apart from its fledgling business product WhatsApp’s main strategy to-date seems to have been to focus on emerging economies....
...This is a guest post by Steven Desmyter, Man Group’s co-head of responsible investing who argues that when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccine, it pays not to profit from disaster....
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...A large number of traditional hedge funds and mutual fund groups have watched assets flow out either into passive funds or into computer-driven “quantitative” investment strategies....
...Rival biotech group Intellia Therapeutics plans to seek US approval for its own trial in the second half of 2020....
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...Dawn Holland: There is limited scope for further stimulus via monetary easing....
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...The support for such a bold strategy on Citi’s board may be limited....
...JAB insists it is not looking for the quick highs sought by private equity. 3G Capital, the group behind Kraft Heinz, had specialised in aggressive cost cutting....
...The Ministry of Science and Technology identified a “national team” with a first group made up of internet giants Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings, together with voice recognition intelligence...
...McCarthy’s fintech group joined up with OpenLaw, a start-up group working to apply blockchain technology in the legal sector....
...“Emerging markets are facing a perfect storm in 2018 with their currencies, stock and bond markets all taking a battering,” says Jason Hollands, managing director at Tilney Group....
...“Through our recently published industrial strategy, we are working with companies across the UK to create an environment where businesses can thrive.”...
...“If you go by the headlines, you would think much more money would have been attracted to the strategy....
...CDL v Millennium hotels: Singapore stand-off A simple question sits at the heart of a battle between one of Singapore’s richest men Kwek Leng Beng and a group of investors in UK-listed Millennium & Copthorne...
...Andrew Holland, analyst at Société Générale, says: “The new group will have a combination of hot and cold drinks, which differentiates it from Coca-Cola, Pepsi on the one hand and Nestlé, Unilever on the...
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