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Country had been suing the bank and others for their part in a 2013 loans scandal that wrecked its finances
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...Countering this vision, Barbara Walker embosses the outlines of white figures in old-master paintings to highlight unnamed black subjects drawn in graphite....
...This sordid affair closed a chapter on Monday, the FT’s Joseph Cotterill and Owen Walker report, after UBS settled with Mozambique....
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...Among the more in-demand contemporary artists was Caroline Walker, whose strong week at auction was topped by “Threshold” (2014)....
...Joseph Dickerson, an analyst at Jefferies, said the loss was “an unhelpful matter which has triggered an independent review around the control environment”, adding that “regulatory inquiries may weigh on...
...(Owen Walker, Emma Dunkley and I got the inside view from lenders last week)....
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...Ross Walker: Yes. Enough to cut rates....
...what went on in that department, but everyone knew it was funding Russia’s military-industrial complex,” a former senior VTB executive whose lift pass denied him access to the floor told the FT’s Owen Walker...
...This gutting exhibition summons a roster of current stars (Lorna Simpson, Theaster Gates, Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, plus many more) and plenty of work from the past decade....
...“[The] impairment charge for [the year is] higher than expected, though Virgin Money had looked less conservative than peers,” said Joseph Dickerson, an analyst at Jefferies....
...“During the coronavirus pandemic we need bank CEOs to be looking through their front windscreen rather than their rear-view mirror,” said Joseph Dickerson, an analyst at Jefferies....
...Ross Walker: Maybe....
...Every season I have an image from one of Tim Walker’s amazing countryside shoots on my mood board. And isn’t everyone just trying to get to the countryside at the moment?”...
...George Walker's Lyric for Strings is similarly touching, probably his most frequently played work. One of Mendelssohn's string symphonies completed the programme....
...“Genuine ‘levelling up’ requires money, a strategy and time — there appear to be acute post-Brexit shortages in all of these,” said Ross Walker, economist at NatWest Markets....
...Pretty luxurious for the money. £19.95 Stone, Vine & Sun Jean-Louis Chave Sélection, Offerus 2017 St-Joseph, Northern Rhône 14%From the most admired producer of Hermitage....
...Real-life characters — Joseph Goebbels, Martin Bormann — mix with fictional creations to build a believable universe, though more scene-setting would be welcome....
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