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...The list of borrowers shifting from private to public debt markets includes Veritas-backed energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie and UK insurance broker Ardonagh, according to people briefed on the matter....
...Fresh sanctions on imports of Russian oil products such as petrol and diesel into Europe will come into force in early February....
...How can green offerings be expanded if banks only have a limited number of “known” green activities and companies, she asked....
...A multinational consumer company such as Unilever currently has very little real-time insight into how their products sell at small storefronts in India, for example....
...Nearly half of that went to companies creating alternatives to traditionally produced meat, seafood and dairy products....
...“In any given year, we’re partnering with 50 to 60 fintech companies in the Asia-Pacific,” said Matthew Wood, who oversees Visa’s digital and fintech partnerships in the region....
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...Ben Wood, chief of research at CCS Insight, says that outside of China “there is a real risk that the Huawei Mate 40 family of devices could be the company’s ‘last hurrah’ in smartphones”, as it struggles...
...Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, warned during a forum on December 8 that some tech companies were becoming “too big to fail”, as the micropayment market they...
...Of the world’s cities with the worst air pollution last year, ranked by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir, the top 148 are all in the Asia-Pacific region....
...Shipments of wood products and furniture totalled $1.05bn in January 2020, before global lockdowns, but had jumped 47 per cent by November when lockdowns were well under way, according to the latest statistics...
...The company stuck with Tiger Woods through a scandal in the golfer’s private life....
...When he asked his bank to delay loan repayments it refused, saying it has a limited quota for repayment delays....
...“It is the companies’ job to come up with the right projects or products that can help my department to reach that goal,” he said....
...imports and bans on the export of technology products....
...Hiroshi Ugai, JPMorgan’s Japan economist, recently noted that “the BoJ can lower the long-term yield target, but not much, because it would weigh on the profits and capital of life insurance companies and...
...This month it announced plans to set up a joint venture with China’s ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance, an internet-based insurer, to offer financial products to Grab users and drivers....
...“Many tasks, such as airline and hotel reservations and insurance claims . . . are now fully automated.”...
..., consumer products and natural resources....
...Company executives say the impact of the probes is limited, but the questions have helped spur a European push towards greater scrutiny of takeover bids from China....
...An analysis of US insurance claims shows a striking rise in serious allergic reactions to foods such as peanuts....
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...The deal gives the Japanese group access to Chaucer’s global client base and factories in US, China and France but company officials admit the firm has limited know-how in running an overseas company....
...Company after company turned him down. Suddenly, none wanted new products for cars running on fossil fuels....
...Others are more frivolous: Yasuda Kasai, the Japanese insurance company, paying $40m for Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in 1987; and Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian’s 2015 purchase of a Modigliani painting for $170m...
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