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...In today’s newsletter: Metro Bank’s billionaire white knight ExxonMobil plots a mega-deal The Safras at war The Colombian billionaire taking a punt on Metro Bank The last DD left you, Metro Bank was...
...The Big Read Joseph Safra helped build a $25bn global empire of banks, property and agribusiness based in Brazil....
...The UK’s Metro Bank struck a financing deal with investors after a weekend of negotiations that should give it some breathing space and fill a capital hole that had prompted talks with regulators....
...On March 17, a 40-year-old man travelling on the Moscow metro was denounced by a fellow passenger, who oversaw him looking at images that “discredit the army” on his mobile phone....
...A group of Metro Bank bondholders contacted the UK lender’s board on Monday offering a £600mn capital injection, but the company has yet to accept the offer, according to two people familiar with the matter...
...Kiran Raichura of Capital Economics (generally a CRE pessimist) has produced detailed office price forecasts by metro area....
...What I find standing in their place is often depressing: an uninspiring, cubiform block of flats here, a Local or a Metro or an Express there....
...Daniëls was previously represented by the New York gallery Metro Pictures, which closed in 2021, while Shave had a show of his paintings in London that year....
...Anheuser-Busch InBev Q4, Beazley FY, Best Buy Q4, Broadcom Q1, Capita FY, Costco Q2, CRH FY, Flutter Entertainment FY, Funding Circle FY, ITV FY, Kroger Q4, London Stock Exchange FY, Macy’s Q4, Melrose FY, Metro...
...Joseph Blatter The winner to organise the 222 (sic) Fifa World Cup is . . . Qatar (people cheering)....
...As head of Paris Metro group RATP, Borne had a first taste of industrial action during negotiations with unions over pay....
...Metro stations offer free entry for Ukrainians. Online newspapers have pages in Ukrainian. Hospitals are full of Ukrainian patients....
...Joseph Dickerson, analyst at Jefferies, said: “Investors in Metro should welcome the news, as this removes the near-term need to raise £200m to £300m of likely expensive senior debt.”...
...But it would be a “catalytic” moment this year, Joseph Scalzo, chief executive of the Simply Good Foods Company, told investors in the snacks company earlier this month....
...Joseph Dubonnet concocted his aperitif wine in 1846 in an effort to mask the flavour of the malaria drugs that were taken by French soldiers in north Africa....
...Joseph Dickerson, analyst at Jefferies, predicted Metro would look to cut costs by curbing its store expansion plans....
...The legendary 19th-century mayor Joseph Chamberlain, the man credited with building municipal Birmingham, is an oft-cited hero....
...Berlin was violently detained while standing with a group of friends inside the entrance of a metro station, close to where protesters had gathered....
...Joseph Dickerson, a banking analyst at Jefferies who also followed Mr Hill’s previous ventures in the US, said Metro appeared to be “bruised but not broken”, pointing to strong growth in fee income and solid...
...Hong Kong began the day in lockdown, with almost 30 shopping malls and a number of metro stations closed on what is normally a busy public holiday....
...On Wednesday, the Pentagon confirmed that Mark Esper, acting defence secretary, and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, would both attend....
...Job moves Metro Bank co-founder Vernon Hill has stepped down as chairman with immediate effect, as the UK challenger bank’s woes deepen. More here....
...of business leaders — representing sectors from medical equipment manufacturers to catering — convene in a couple of rooms on a trading estate on the outskirts of Ann Arbor, a short drive from Detroit Metro...
...Campbell Robb, chief executive of the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation, warned that families across the UK could not afford to wait for the government’s priorities to be set out in next year’s spending...
...Read the full story from the FT’s Joseph Cotterill here. Job moves Danske Bank has fired Jesper Nielsen over a mis-selling scandal of a wealth management product....
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