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...When Rishi Sunak was embarrassed into attending COP27, he talked of the UK’s climate leadership and boasted of the UK’s climate finance going to Kenya....
...Kenya is a test of whether the service can be profitable....
...Central banks in Hungary, Kenya and Nigeria also meet this week, all with no changes forecast....
...While its main South African retail bank operates under the ABSA brand, the business uses the Barclays brand in about ten other countries, including Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, and Botswana....
...the rising price of prescription drugs into a campaign issue by channelling popular outrage over sudden increases in the cost of Mylan’s EpiPen injection for allergy sufferers and an Aids drug made by Martin...
...The central bank is also likely to oppose any attempt to split the Absa branch network in South Africa from Barclays’ smaller operations in a dozen other countries, such as Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique...
...Sir Martin Sorrell Chief executive WPP Group Where are you going on holiday this year? Holiday? How do you spell that? The Greek islands. How do you like to get there? Scheduled plane and boat....
...(WSJ) Shake-up on charges for UK asset managers: Martin Wheatley , the head of the Financial Conduct Authority, will tell a conference that existing rules on how fund managers spend their clients’ cash...
...David R Martin, DR Martin LLC, Atlanta, GA, US...
...“With real interest rates approaching zero, investors are looking for more sophisticated funds and fixed income products,” Martin Escobari, director of General Atlantic in Latin America, said in a statement...
...Oil retreated. http://bloom.bg/TfaiH1 Two bidders race for Aston Martin stake Kuwait’s Investment Dar is in talks with two potential bidders for a 50 per cent stake in Aston Martin, the famous sports carmaker...
...South Korean consumer confidence rebounded from a nine-month low this month as the economy began to show signs of improvement. http://bloom.bg/10Gowql Qatar disposes of Barclays warrants Qatar Holding LLC...
...The Gunn Report, which assesses agencies and campaigns, said in February that AKQA in London ranked equally with BBH and R/GA in New York as the “most awarded” digital agency in 2011....
...Martin Arnold, Deputy Companies Editor martin.arnold@ft.com *Updated to reflect new information from the company...
...Private equity holdings such as Toys R Us and Avaya are unlikely to go public soon because they are not achieving enough organic growth. The market mood could also change quickly, as it did last year....
...Mafrig reported a R$91m ($52.5m) loss in the second quarter of this year compared with a R$103m profit a year earlier....
...In the US, Bain is poised to benefit from the initial public offerings of some of its biggest deals, including Toys R Us, the toy retailer....
...Kenya and Uganda awarded a 25-year concession to operate the line to Rift Valley Railways in 2006. But they have been disappointed by its lack of investment and failure to improve efficiency....
...value continues to blight American capitalism, says Martin....
...Montagu and CD&R declined to comment....
...SSP has offices in Ireland, Denmark and South Africa, while Sirius is in Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, India and the US....
...Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror By Chris Priestley Bloomsbury £9.99, 239 pages FT bookshop price: £7.99 This collection of ghost stories in the style of M.R....
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