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...Chief executive Sergio Ermotti also confirmed UBS would get to keep its rival’s “crown jewel” — the domestic consumer bank — while also cherry picking the most attractive assets, clients and staff from the...
...UBS executives see Credit Suisse’s domestic business as its “jewel in the crown” and would prefer to keep it intact....
...Thiam was close to listing 25 per cent of the business in 2017 but the deal was aborted after board members and investors became skittish about selling off the bank’s “crown jewel”....
...Known internally as the “jewel in the crown”, analysts had estimated the business could fetch up to SFr15bn in a spin-off....
...Citi’s services division, which house the Treasury and Trade Solutions business that Fraser describes as the bank’s “crown jewel”, reported revenues of $4.3bn, up 32 per cent and ahead of estimates of $4.1bn...
...But analysts question what a future for Raiffeisen would look like without the jewel in its crown....
...I think that would certainly be the preference of a lot of politicians and regulators in Switzerland rather than having an overseas bank come in and buy essentially the finance sector’s crown jewels....
...Under the scheme, a coterie of bankers lent the cash-strapped Kremlin $1.8bn with stakes in the crown jewels of Soviet industry as collateral, fully aware that the loans would never be repaid....
...In France, GFG is locked in an acrimonious battle with American Industrial Partners, a US investment group, over control of Europe’s largest aluminium smelter, widely seen as the jewel in the crown of his...
...Chipmaker Broadcom is in talks to acquire VMware, the crown jewel asset that Dell and Durban acquired when taking control of EMC, in a deal that could fetch the software group more than $50bn....
...Volkswagen’s most important announcements in the past decade, the German group’s management board had no control over the timing of a statement that finally confirmed it planned to list the company’s crown jewel...
...He will now need to develop a strategy for Credit Suisse’s investment bank, which was once its crown jewel but has gradually diminished under successive chief executives....
...Additional reporting by Owen Walker in London...
...And the jewel-like stalks of ruby chard added splashes of colour in the winter sunshine....
...The predominantly Italian directors prioritised protecting jobs and keeping branches open over slashing costs, while the disposals of Pioneer and Fineco were criticised for selling off the “family jewels...
...A little further along (Nos 45-46) you will encounter another jewel, Ernö Goldfinger’s office block of 1955-7, a miniature test piece for his giant Alexander Fleming House in Elephant and Castle....
...“Structured products have undoubtedly been the jewel in the crown for the likes of SocGen and Natixis — so the market is wondering whether these cuts are an overreaction to short-term dislocation,” said...
...While the pause in Ant’s IPO may deprive China’s top onshore bourse of its crown jewel for a time, the deal is more a sign of the times than catalyst for change in its own right....
...The outflows place fresh pressure on the group’s distribution arm after Mr Flanagan had repeatedly pointed to OppenheimerFunds’ sales team as a prized jewel since first announcing the deal last year....
...Having been accused of seeking treasure with no regard to archaeological context, detectorists are now belatedly recognised for adding significant jewels to the crown of our past....
...Other creditors of Venezuela are also waiting in the wings, including Canadian mining company Crystallex, US oil major ConocoPhillips and US glassmaker Owens-Illinois....
...In 1933, the Owens-Illinois Glass Block Building showed exactly what could be done at the Century of Progress Chicago World’s Fair....
...The result — a collection of sculptural jewels designed to make a feature of the hearing aid — has just claimed the Swarovski Fashion Accessories Prize at the Hyères International Festival in the south of...
...Cargo trousers were made in “humble” linen and trimmed in velvets, a sneaker boot was studded with jewels while a technical parka, in sorbet colours, looked as elegant as an opera coat....
...Protecting the crown jewels of British industry sounds an attractive policy, but it raises some difficult questions: how to decide what counts as a national champion or a strategic industry, and how to work...
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