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...But a trio of academics this week came up with a hypothesis on another way to get in: a short-cut that involves hard cash....
...This week’s #techAsia looks at how China is leading the world in efforts to launch a national digital currency. 5....
...The rise of DraftKings, the partnership between Penn National Gaming and Barstool Sports, and the Spac mergers of Rush Street Gaming and Golden Nugget Online Gaming underscore the investor enthusiasm....
...“So we’ve agreed to join forces with Google and Apple to bring the best bits of both systems together,” he said, adding pointedly: “In the meantime, the NHS Test and Trace system based on good old fashioned...
...More cash will very likely be allotted in a future stimulus bill....
...This remaking of Japan Inc rests on a critical structural shift: the changing role of banks....
...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....
...The proxy voting system — heavily influenced by unregulated advisory firms ISS and Glass Lewis — has been criticised for years, and the SEC has taken note....
...This has allowed the city to operate at a scale that is rare in the National Health Service....
...The National Audit Office is investigating a franchise system that allowed another prominent rail operator, Virgin Trains, to walk away from a major route three years early after racking up losses....
...“It shows how the system is clearly broken when the Qantas CEO can earn A$25m while workers wearing the Qantas uniform struggle to pay basic bills,” said Tony Sheldon, national secretary of the Transport...
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Aerojet’s push comes as United Launch Alliance, the company that until recently had a monopoly on US national security space launches, prepares to choose an engine for its new rocket systems....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...“For the past few years people have resigned themselves to the idea that cash is a zero-return asset class, which is patently false,” he said....
...The vast majority of invalid traffic is filtered from our systems before advertisers are ever charged.”...
...Fidelity National Information Services, a technology provider to banks and insurers, is buying SunGard Data Systems for $9.1bn, allowing its private equity owners to offload one of the signature deals of...
...The engines — powered by methane, a new propellant for US-built engines — will initially power a similar rocket to the Atlas V that ULA powers with Russian-built RD180 engines....
...Elderly Athenians were left in the lurch, waiting outside branches of the National Bank of Greece....
...In the US, venture capital fundraising crossed $30bn in 2014, a seven-year high, according to the National Venture Capital Association....
...(Reuters) “William Morris Endeavor Entertainment LLC is close to an agreement to buy rival talent and marketing agency IMG Worldwide Inc. for about $2.4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter...
...It is less than the 400p discussed last summer when Fidelity National Information Services, a US rival, was looking at a takeover of the company....
...Temenos could look at a way of sweetening its deal with Misys with some cash. Temenos may also settle for buying just the core banking system from Misys, if it cannot get the whole business....
...The offer, which was first reported on FT.com, is considerably lower than the £1.4bn offer Misys is thought to have received from Fidelity National Information Services, the US banking technology company...
...Dodd-Frank, for instance, is primarily aimed at the banking system, but the shadow banking system is being forced into levels of disclosure that have discomfited some US hedge funds....
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