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...This month China’s largest battery maker, CATL, said its subsidiary had bought a share in an undeveloped copper and cobalt project in the DRC for $138m, in an indication of future demand for the metal....
...It made Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 popular romantic comedy The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain look like a 90-minute documentary, Mr Chameroy remarked....
...The lender’s fund management chief Jean Raby reassured investors shortly after the FT’s exposé that these bonds were in fact “quite diversified”....
...London-based H2O, a subsidiary of French bank Natixis, has emerged as one of the highest-profile victims of the recent market rout, with several of its bond funds recording losses of more than 50 per cent...
...Last week Clear Channel announced the sale of its stake in Chinese subsidiary Clear Media for $253m to a consortium including JCDecaux, a sign that the French group is trying to expand despite the crisis...
...A French court struck down a similar effort by Paris to collect €1.1bn in back taxes, ruling that Google’s Ireland-based subsidiary was not taxable in France....
...Jean-Claude Juncker was a man under pressure when he appeared before the European Parliament’s tax investigation committee in September 2015....
...Multinational companies have come under fire since the global financial crisis for shifting profits between subsidiaries to use the differences between countries’ rules to minimise taxes....
...The first round of voting was a four-horse race right up to the wire with the possibility — albeit remote — that far-right leader Marine Le Pen could have faced far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon....
...This was on top of a direct plea from Jack Lew, Treasury secretary, to Jean-Claude Juncker, commission president, to reconsider the investigation....
...Its 2013 advertisement with Jean-Claude Van Damme performing the splits between two lorries in reverse, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the company’s steering system, has been viewed 85m times....
...Ms Baudson has also been appointed as chief executive of CPR Asset Management, a €38bn subsidiary of Amundi that specialises in thematic equities. She succeeds Jean-Eric Mercier, who has left CPR....
...Next week, the European Commission will take its latest step in its ongoing quest to move beyond the LuxLeaks corporate tax avoidance scandal that has periodically dogged President Jean-Claude Juncker....
...The decisions were announced as Jean-Sébastien Jacques prepares to take over as Rio’s new chief executive on Saturday from industry veteran Sam Walsh....
...Both previously worked at Babson Capital, a subsidiary of MassMutual, the US financial services firm....
...Mr Moscovici is hoping EU countries will join forces to stop multinationals exploiting gaps in cross-border rules to channel profits to subsidiaries in low-tax countries (sometimes within the EU)....
...Multinationals can have long incorporated European subsidiaries. What about insurance companies and non-bank financial services?...
...Russian prosecutors had opened their own investigation into Ablyazov’s activities in their country, where BTA had a subsidiary....
...● Mark Mandich has been named interim president of Curian Capital, a $17.3bn subsidiary of Jackson National Life Insurance Company....
...Mr Burnside was previously head of alternatives at BlueBay Asset Management, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada....
...Jean-Marc Duvoisin, Nespresso chief executive, acknowledged: “Our business in the US is still small because we are focusing on espresso drinkers.”...
...“This is a dark day for France and the French,” said Eric Comparot, a leader of the CGT trade union at Seita, Imperial’s subsidiary....
...Exxon said XTO, its shale oil and gas subsidiary, “works with local authorities to ensure there is adequate supply.”...
...Jean-René Fourtou, who has headed Vivendi’s board since 2005, said last week that he plans to retire after the spin-off of SFR....
...By 1990 it had 1,600 subsidiaries....
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