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...Dividend payouts include a total of at least €140mn for the 60-year-old Mathias Döpfner, the long-serving chief executive who has sought to transform the company from a German-focused publishing house into...
...loan-to-value ratio....
...Icahn, one of Wall Street’s best known activist investors, dismissed the report as self-serving....
...Icahn Enterprises also released its rebuttal to the Hindenburg report, which it had previously labelled “self-serving”, on Wednesday....
...“We believe the self-serving short seller report published by Hindenburg Research today was intended solely to generate profits on Hindenburg’s short position at the expense of IEP’s long-term unit holders...
...Margin loans are known for being risky because a margin call can quickly lead to an unravelling if the holder is unable to meet it....
...This investment, however, did leave room for higher priority senior loans to be undertaken by Vice in future years....
...But either way, Blackstone has skipped a payment on a $274m hotel loan, DD’s Mark Vandevelde and Eric Platt reported last week, joining the ranks of leading real estate investors that have fallen behind...
...(FT) Santander profit plunges on loan loss provisions (FT)...
...In the Seagram Building a few miles to the north, the Four Seasons is still serving up a decent asparagus agnolotti....
...Mr Bolton, who left the White House after serving for 17 months as Mr Trump’s national security adviser, described the president as “erratic and impulsive”, “stunningly uninformed”, “irrational” and motivated...
...Two big things to start: Carlos Ghosn, the former head of Nissan, has agreed to pay $1m and serve a 10-year ban from serving as an officer or director of a US company to settle fraud charges brought by the...
...say the end is nigh, but they do think the ranks of global mega-banks will shrink by at least half by the time the dust has settled: Once this trend plays out, three-to-five global players will be left serving...
...• Ian Gorham is to leave Hargreaves Lansdown after serving as chief executive of the fund supermarket for seven years....
...Their case is made stronger by evidence that students at for-profit schools are less likely to pay back their loans or find jobs....
...Some have tackled the question head on, attempting to quantify the costs of splitting businesses serving consumers from those serving big companies and investors....
...Alcoa plans to separate into two companies: a “downstream” specialised metals and products business, serving buoyant industries such as aerospace and automotive, and an “upstream” commodity business producing...
...John Mann, Labour MP and longest-serving member of the select committee said: “We need to make sure this has not been a quick fire-sale to an intermediary that shortchanges the taxpayer.”...
...His princeling status allowed him to become the longest serving head of a major Chinese bank and serve beyond the normal retirement age....
...(Financial Times) British SMEs’ external borrowing declines: The quarterly SME Finance monitor found 39% of the 5,000 firms surveyed had used finance such as loans, overdrafts and credit cards....
...Serving more than 3,800 children to date, Synergie implements prevention and treatment programmes....
...On Wednesday, Jan Hurri at Taloussanomat took advantage of the Finnish government’s recent doc dump in order to reach a conclusion about its deal for ‘collateral’ on Greek bailout loans: It’s almost worthless...
...(Reuters) UBS saved Ping An deal with $5.5bn loan: UBS provided a secret loan of about $5.5bn to enable a Thai company to purchase HSBC’s stake in a Chinese insurer earlier this year, according to people...
...First, Orbán has to appoint a successor as central bank governor to the long-serving (and long-suffering) András Simor, whose term ends on March 6....
...In the meantime, Goldman is close to leaving the mortgage-servicing business with a sale of its Litton Loan unit to Ocwen due to be announced within days, reports Bloomberg....
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