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...The insurrection ultimately failed, and Wagner has since relocated to Belarus....
...Scott Wagner, Never Back Down’s new chair and third chief executive in two weeks, is a longtime DeSantis ally....
...Additional reporting by David Pilling in London, Andres Schipani in N’Djamena, and Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg...
...“This association may have led to solana being oversold,” said Jacob Joseph, researcher at CCData. FT Cryptofinance is edited by Philip Stafford....
...Scott Nuttall and Joseph Bae, co-chief executives of the New York-based group, told the Financial Times they were seeing an improvement in activity to take portfolio companies public....
...Analysts say the Central African Republic probably lost its Agoa status because of its ties to the Wagner paramilitary group, designated a transnational criminal organisation by the US treasury and accused...
...“The discovery represents one of the most significant developments in the onshore southern Africa oil and gas industry for decades,” said Scott Macmillan, managing director of Invictus....
...It will also be the first significant international meeting in Russia since the June revolt by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner military group that shook the Kremlin....
...According to Jacob Joseph, research analyst at CCData, this suggests that “proof of reserves might have become less discerning to users compared to the early months after the collapse of FTX”....
...Although many had concluded that Wagner was a “pernicious force” on the continent, they were conscious of Russia’s prowess as a wheat exporter....
...Pro-Wagner Telegram channels reported that just a few dozen people attended the burial — with no Wagner fighters in attendance....
...Analysts have questioned whether Putin would want to leave Russia on a long journey to South Africa in the wake of the Wagner mutiny and with the war in Ukraine raging....
...Conventional Russian ties to the continent have also been eclipsed in the public eye by Moscow’s use of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner group as a praetorian guard for some of Africa’s most unstable regimes,...
...As always, email me at scott.chipolina@ft.com. Weekly highlights: I’ve served you a Coinbase-heavy diet of late, so to round things off, here are some of the non-Coinbase highlights of the week....
...“They’re sending Biden to a low-impact place during a binational party when everything is cleaned up and they can say ‘look how good it is’,” said Scott Fry, a local engineer and flood manager....
...Scott’s role includes oversight of the energy giant’s operations in the sprawling Permian Basin, America’s most prolific oilfield....
...Scott Nuttall and Joseph Bae, the two co-heads of KKR who formally took over from Kravis and Roberts in 2021, have pinned much of the group’s earnings growth on a near $20bn stockpile of assets that have...
...During Joseph Stalin’s ascendancy after Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin kept a sharp eye on those who expressed concerns about him....
...And there were few more impressive 1980s mullets than the one he sported in Ridley Scott’s Black Rain....
...We probably should not go so far as to term this bond the Wagner Group avant la lettre of sovereign lending. It was always clear that the money was coming from the Russian state....
...KKR, by contrast, has had no internal turmoil since elevating Joseph Bae and Scott Nuttall as co-chief executives in October 2021, cementing a succession from founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts....
...Heavyweight philanthropists such as Mackenzie Scott have emphasised “unrestricted” giving, which allows charities to spend cash on programmes or other costs as they see fit....
...“In our experience volatility creates opportunity,” co-chief executives Joseph Bae and Scott Nuttall said in a press release, noting KKR sits on $106bn in uncalled investor commitments that it can invest...
...As always, send me your thoughts at scott.chipolina@ft.com....
...Data-tracking crypto transactions indicated that owners of BUSD were already beginning to switch their holdings into tether, the industry’s largest stablecoin, said Jacob Joseph, a research analyst at CryptoCompare...
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