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...Credit Suisse’s top executives will share a SFr350mn ($380mn) bonus pool if they pull off a radical restructuring designed to restore the fortunes of the scandal-hit bank, said people familiar with the matter...
...Financial groups included on the blacklist of companies, which included Credit Suisse, UBS and BNP Paribas, attacked the process as politicised and arbitrary....
...Et tout ça va nous replonger, dans une culture, que j’avais plusieurs fois défendue sur d’autres sujets, je n’avais pas vu celui-là arriver, je le dis en toute modestie, mais qu’est-ce qui relève de la souveraineté...
...The new president will also have to deal with groups such as the Workers’ Confederation of the Popular Economy (CTEP)....
...China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Monday told travel agencies to temporarily suspend the sale of group tours abroad....
...“The proposal and actions of the Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana [Coparmex] to establish a new salary culture in the country are reaching their first objective,” the business group said in...
...The RBS executive, who lived in London for seven years until November, said he will miss its world-class culture. “I love London....
...“We are not a travel agency,” says Fabienne Lupo, managing director of the Geneva-based Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, which promotes top-end Swiss watches and helps arrange such private trips....
...Rita de la Feria, professor of tax law at Durham University, says an “opportunity for base-broadening tax reform” is emerging....
...When I last saw him, in November, he talked about how difficult his job was and how hard it is to manage the Swiss confederation with its three languages and three wine cultures....
...More recently, La Roja’s 3-0 defeat by Brazil in last summer’s Confederation Cup final and Barça’s faltering season have raised questions about whether tiki-taka has reached the end of its usefulness....
...In 1967 it installed the world’s first automated cash teller machine, an idea dreamt up in the bath by John Shepherd-Barron of De La Rue Instruments that was seized upon by another great general manager,...
...The combined group’s copper production is set to grow 50 per cent by 2015, according to Credit Suisse estimates, as Xstrata’s Las Bambas project in Peru and Glencore’s investments in central Africa come...
...Luc Doublet, the head of a family-event services company who chairs the Agence pour la Promotion Internationale de Lille Metropole (APIM), gives particular emphasis to the prosperity-creating role of culture...
...There, Biver was introduced to the crème de la crème of the watch world, including George Golay, then chief executive of Audemars Piguet....
...This week Medef, the French business confederation, is holding its annual summer university....
...The volume of banknotes in circulation worldwide is greater than ever, says security printer De La Rue, despite the rise of electronic payment tools....
...To make sure what is expected to be the crème de la crème of central banking turn up, the invitations – for Friday, June 22, 2007 – are being sent out admirably early. No excuse not to attend....
...It turned out our idea had greater legs than we first gave it credit for," explains de Wesselow....
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