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...Munich Re’s main insurance business Ergo provided about €700mn in loans, while Germany’s fourth largest insurance group R+V lent €500mn, more than half of which is not collateralised, according to the documents...
...Kevin McPartland, head of market structure at Coalition Greenwich, says the central clearing proposal was “definitely a monumental change for the Treasury market”, adding that enacting it will be a “big...
...The relentless drive of the timpani lent an ominousness that only resolved in the chorale finale....
...This is a classic “dull but v v v v important” issue that rarely gets the attention it should, because a lot of people understandably lose the will to live as soon as you start talking about financial plumbing...
...It was nattily dressed in Charlotte MacMillan’s sawn-off, gunmetal tutus and lent a snarling energy by Joey Roukens’s brassy, percussive In Unison....
...Is it time for Kevin Feige to go, I ask, referring to the president of Marvel Studios who oversaw the highest-grossing film series of all time before the recent rough patch....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...But he has also said it was “critical” for countries to have alternatives to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, which has lent on opaque terms....
...The bank had hired him the previous year at the age of 89, and had lent him $478,000 during the twelve months of his employment there....
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...“Yet we’re not the ones who lent recklessly on opaque terms.”...
...Whatever happens your friendship is v important to me and that’s not going to change. WhatsApp to Sue: I can’t just sack her. She’d sue us to hell and back....
...China has lent close to $1tn to developing countries mostly to build infrastructure under the BRI....
...In an interview with our colleague Aime Williams, Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt said ESG companies are welcome in the state....
...During his lifetime Hodgkin lent his keen eye for colour and form to everyone from the Royal Mail to the Ballet Rambert; book covers for the likes of Susan Sontag and Alan Hollinghurst; and even a billboard...
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...The onions gave it crunch, the lard gave it body and the paprika gave it spice but, as often with these things, it was the location that lent the extra magic....
...Gareth Neal & Kevin Gauld oak and straw Brodgar chair, £3,440, thenewcraftsmen.com Anest Collective cotton poplin shirt, €720 Studio Tashtego by Tina Vlassopulos terracotta Loop vase, POA Kióhne Olivia...
...The same collection also lent the V&A a gold and enamel box, and both have been retained in Britain. So this is a tricky one: do those objects count as public art, or as pieces of private wealth?...
...You can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...Kevin Foster, immigration minister, replied that there had been a “virtually unprecedented surge in demand” and urged the public to submit their applications as fast as possible....
...The archive lent to the V&A was “his personal classroom”, says the V&A’s Luffman, full of forms he repeated or changed gradually over time — a mug handle here, the shape of a dish there....
...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this column: The west is right to call China’s bluff on Taiwan / From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...In November 2019, it had lent just £23mn excluding loans bought from other companies, according to Lord Agnew. By June 2021, it had dished out £1.6bn of bounce back loans....
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