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...Washington has grown increasingly concerned that Congo’s most important minerals, particularly cobalt, are being exported to China, according to Jason Stearns, an author and Congo expert....
...“I think JPMorgan has done a great job on the ultra-high net worth segment, and they’re still gaining more scale in the mass affluent [segment],” said Jason Goldberg, banking analyst at Barclays....
...“It is extremely difficult to believe . . . that tens of thousands of lines of data could have been fabricated on short notice to produce these results without signs of tampering,” said Jason Stearns, director...
...said Jason Stearns, director of the Congo Research Group at New York University....
...Jason Stearns, an expert on the country whose Congo Research Group conducted extensive polling before the election, said the church’s position put it on a potential collision course with a ruling party intent...
...Jason Stearns, a director of the Congo Research Group at the Center on International Cooperation, a New York think-tank, said the AU’s intervention in effectively overruling SADC was “truly remarkable.”...
...But here it practically contradicted SADC’s much blander stance, intervening in an electoral dispute of a member state,” said Jason Stearns, a director of the Congo Research Group at the Center on International...
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...“This is a relatively volatile, unpredictable situation,” Mr Stearns said....
...Jason Stearns, a think-tank director who saw the data, says: “It is extremely difficult to believe . . . that tens of thousands of lines of data could have been fabricated on short notice to produce these...
...However, Jason Stearns, director of the Congo Research Group at New York University, said it was likely that other groups were also involved....
...One lesson from Zimbabwe, according to Jason Stearns, an expert on Africa at New York University, is that, whatever the appearance, succession battles are usually won “in the corridors of the ruling parties...
...Jason Stearns, director of the Congo Research Group at New York University, said an election this year was “very unlikely”....
...Jason Stearns, author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, a book about Congo, said he had stopped counting the number of times Mr Katumbi had pledged to fly home....
...“Diplomats are tired of hearing he’s almost about to go back,” said Jason Stearns, director of the Congo Research Group at New York University....
...“The government has purposefully dragged its feet and created a crisis,” says Jason Stearns of the Congo Research Group and author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, a book about the country’s various...
...James Hyde, 43, Hamish Maclellan, 43, and Phillip Jenkins, 50, all worked for US investment bank Bear Stearns, before moving to Jefferies, where each earned more than £1m a year in 2009-10....
...Six months before Lehman Brothers collapsed, there was a full-blown crisis at Bear Stearns that left regulators and bankers braced for another financial shock and scrambling to prepare....
...“This is about the peace process that began in 1999 — if Kabila tears up the constitution it threatens to unroll the progress made since the end of the war,” says Jason Stearns, a writer who has served on...
...Activist investor Spring Owl – spearheaded by former Bear Stearns gaming analyst Jason Ader – spooked investors earlier this year when it submitted a 37-page manifesto proposing a spin-off of the group’s...
...Bwin.party has called on activist shareholder Jason Ader to press on with appointing his representative to the board of the online gambling company but denied it was concerned about his intentions....
...“It is 1998 [again] to the extent that the region is divided,” said Jason Stearns, an expert on Congo....
...In recent months, he had tried to frustrate talks between a faction of the rebels and the Congolese government, Congo expert Jason Stearns said....
...Jason Stearns, a former member of the UN Group of Experts on Congo, said Congolese officials were losing faith in mediation efforts by the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), a regional...
...As UN experts say prominent Ugandans have also supported the rebels, Uganda president Yoweri Museveni has been “compromised” as mediator, said Jason Stearns, Congo analyst....
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