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...The label triggers greater scrutiny of finance and investment and could add to the cost of doing business in an already struggling economy, said Standard Bank chief executive Sim Tshabalala and Mike Brown...
...seen as a proxy for its single biggest market, Nigeria, although it was it was left reeling from a $5bn fine imposed by regulators in the country in 2015 for failing to disconnect millions of unregistered Sim...
...Partners Group nominated Joseph Landy, former co-chief executive of Warburg Pincus, for election as a new independent member of its board....
...“We are a company that really believes we can do more than sell Sim cards,” Collymore told the Financial Times in May at his office, high above Nairobi....
...Michael Joseph has been appointed interim chief executive of Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecoms group, following the death of company leader Bob Collymore. More details here....
...In 1808, a Frenchman called Joseph Talon grew Périgords from acorns he had collected from truffle-producing oak trees....
...Last year MTN also paid a $1.7bn fine to regulators in Nigeria, its biggest market by subscribers, to settle accusations that it failed to disconnect unregistered SIM cards....
...Underlining the scale of its troubles in Nigeria, MTN said it had launched a review of its Sim cards in the country after initially disconnecting 5m in the wake of the penalty....
...But a person familiar with MTN said the company had argued that the problem of unregistered sim cards could not be addressed until Nigeria had a functioning national identification system....
...The Johannesburg-listed company last year paid $1.1bn to settle a record fine — originally set at $5.2bn — for alleged violations of a law related to SIM card registration....
...Nigeria originally fined MTN $5.2bn last year for failing to disconnect just over 5m unregistered sim cards before a deadline set by the regulator....
...appointment is part of an effort to draw a line under months of uncertainty for MTN after a Nigerian regulator levied a record $5.2bn fine against it in November for failing to disconnect 5m unregistered Sim...
...US swimmer Michael Phelps was unable to build on his haul of 22 Olympic gold medals, beaten in the men’s 100m butterfly final to Singapore’s Joseph Schooling....
...Sim Shagaya, Business/finance Sim Shagaya is doing to Nigerian retail what Jack Ma did to China with Alibaba and Jeff Bezos to the US with Amazon....
...One company has proposed introducing a Kt5,000 ($7) Sim card....
...a new Bank of Italy financial stability report (emphasis ours): To foster a recovery in interbank trading activity and to reduce its concentration on very shortterm maturities, in February 2009 e-MID SIM...
...Additional reporting by Joseph Menn in San Francisco...
...Paul Stopler’s sand-blasted pieces seem to suggest alien geology and Joseph Harrington uses cast glass to create shelving that appears to be melting....
...More than a hundred innocuous-looking wallpaper applications for Android handsets have been harvesting users’ phone numbers and SIM card information and sending them off to a Website based in China, researchers...
...- Swap Tango and trading sims in Further reading. - Forth Ports and a FTSE rejig in Markets Live. On FT.com, - Pru acclerates plans for Hong Kong listing....
...Mr Joseph’s strategy at Safaricom has been among the most innovative....
...Gems include Masao Yamamoto’s A Box of Ku ($200) and Joseph Mills’ wonderfully surreal photomontages in The Loves of Poets ($250)....
...And Joseph is not alone in producing a new generation of dress shirt that lends itself to a luxe but louche look....
...And yet wearing a jungle book around your neck remains a controversial fashion statement, writes Josh Sims....
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