Hints and tips:
...“At the end of the day, money talks and you’d rather have [the PIF] as a partner.” It was not just golf that was stunned....
...The UK, Switzerland and Japan have big pharma industries, but as of Friday it sounded like they were coming around and I’d be surprised if they vetoed a deal signed off by the EU and the US....
...The past five years have seen more innovation in the payments industry than during the previous two decades, the chief executive of Visa, Al Kelly, told me when we chatted for the FT’s Global Banking Summit...
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...The global community should be looking to rest, adjust or trim the ways things are, on a regular basis otherwise there will be imbalances allowing Trumps et al to garner support to deal with greater accrued...
...Recent medical literature suggests that severe manifestations of COVID19 may be due to tissue damage caused by severe immune dysregulation (Li H, et al; The Lancet; April 2020)....
...AstraZeneca remains a quite small company in an international context though, with future performance reliant on half a dozen drugs....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...It comes after Cinven just raised €7bn and Advent International put together a $17.5bn flagship fund....
...Jhingan was previously group director of M&A and international development for Sky....
...Unlike private equity, business school drones struggle to break into the industry....
...I’m very optimistic, given the new tools and if we manage to combine forces, but this is going to take a while....
...At the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, held in a labyrinth of pavilions on the outskirts of Milan, officially it’s the blue-chip furniture manufacturers — Kartell, Vitra et al — that are the biggest draw...
...United — known as “the Blades” after Sheffield’s steel industry — played a crucial part in the international reach of Mr McCabe’s business....
...A lot of times they’ll just say I’m the Al Michaels or the Chris Berman [US sports commentators] of video games.”...
...Think off-duty LA – Victoria Beckham, Kim Kardashian et al scurrying from jeep to studio backdoor to avoid the paparazzi. Owner Barry Jay opened the first Bootcamp studio in West Hollywood in 1998....
...administered by the US-based group ETS....
...RBS was a rogue business, operating in what had become a rogue industry, with the connivance of government. Read it and weep....
...a Beatle/friend of Madonna, Gwyneth, Cameron et al/mother of four – she is Just Like Everyone Else, this seems to be going to extremes....
...The aim is to ensure that the Cote d’Azur region does not slip further down the league table of international business destinations, such as Frankfurt, London, Paris and Barcelona....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...INTERNATIONAL TRADE Altek Europe Castle Donington, Derbyshire Website: www.altek-al.com Employees: 12 Managing director: A. M....
...“I’m not a specialist in this, but I can just see that if we had a delay function then it might be less tempting to cheat on the system,” says Ms Hedegaard....
...Asking Hank Paulson, Timothy Geithner et al, who have the ear of the bankers, to oversee them, is akin to asking the fox to guard the chicken coop....
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