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...Financial markets may have hit the buffers last year, but this did make one type of investment a lot more popular: buffered exchange traded funds....
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 14 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Only 60 per cent of workers in south-east Asia are estimated to have bank accounts, Naik said, but ecommerce in the region is growing quickly as more consumers gain access to the financial system....
...Let us know what you think at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. A programming note: FintechFT will take a one-week break in observance of the Easter holiday. The next issue will be April 25....
...Olaf Scholz said the affair had revealed that Germany’s system of financial regulation “needs to be reorganised”. 2....
...This week it launched a new system to monitor whether the quality of air circulation inside buildings is high enough to prevent dangerous germs from collecting....
...You don’t have to be Thomas Piketty to recognise that inequality poses a significant risk to the global system as it stands....
...Yet non-profits remain sceptical of efforts — notably by Japanese megabanks like Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group — and point out loopholes, including the...
...An overly indebted financial system will weigh on long-term growth prospects. It also reinforces the feedback loop between central banks and asset prices....
...In the wake of the 2008 crisis, struggling Japanese companies turned to Japan Inc for financial rescue rather than be taken over by foreign private equity firms....
...The Chinese government has long held a tight grip on the country’s financial system, opening up to trade but closing out competition to its national businesses from foreign institutions....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...Is Lockheed Martin a ‘bad’ company because it makes weapons that kill, or a ‘good’ company because it makes missile defence systems?...
...The reason is financial — “it is easy to start a lawsuit but expensive to continue it”, says Mr Mammen....
...After financial services, the information technology sector has the longest tenure of sitting directors, at 7.6 years, and has become a focus of some investors....
...(FT) Mayweather v the Justice System The US securities watchdog has targeted its first celebrities who touted initial coin offerings....
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...Developing risk management systems that are better at modelling a bank’s financial exposures and calculate potential losses RENEWABLE ENERGY Improving the efficiency of solar cells by designing better...
...If Mr Zuckerberg can’t wrestle back control of this runaway system, then Facebook doesn’t deserve the user trust that he says is his paramount goal....
...; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Latham & Watkins on the legal; Joele Frank on PR)....
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...Mr Katz was indicted alongside Ruth V. Katz, his wife. The couple fled the US before a plea hearing....
...“We’ve seen a one-size-fits all approach to our financial system that strangles economic growth in towns across the country,” said Jon Tester, a Democrat who represents Montana....
...That Mr Katz, and his wife Ruth Veronica Katz, were indicted for wire fraud, according to court documents reviewed by the Financial Times. Warrants were issued, but the couple became fugitives....
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