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...The US markets take a break on Monday for Martin Luther King Day, but then we’re back into the thick of earnings season with the tail-end of the big US bank reports and a clutch of results from non-financial...
...Street bank seeking to navigate a difficult economic environment for lenders....
...“F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E” and “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” were ticked off like rites of passage from someone moving from Sheffield outsider to Britpop in-crowd....
...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....
...At the moment, 64 separate carbon pricing initiatives cover about 21.5 per cent of emissions globally, according to figures from the World Bank....
...This is about a very small subset of women who can go to a plaintiffs’ law firm and say, ‘Look, my target is a billionaire.’” V....
...Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A museum, who lived with him as a student, previously told the Financial Times that Kwarteng was “quite ungovernable” in his convictions but conventional in his tastes....
...To get there, Ant is building Alipay+ into a universal QR code, so a Korean user of KakaoPay e-wallet or a Malaysian user of Touch ‘n Go e-wallet can pay for a taxi in Singapore by scanning the Alipay+ code...
...N R Bhanumurthy, vice-chancellor of the Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University....
...Pittsburgh-based PNC struck a $11.6bn deal last year to buy the US business of Spain’s BBVA. Morgan Stanley and Bank of America advised MUFG on the deal, and US Bancorp was advised by Goldman Sachs....
...I saw that person on a rain-lashed day in June 2012, aboard the royal barge as crowds lined the banks of the Thames, determined, in a deeply British way, to celebrate the diamond jubilee, the biting cold...
...“But places like the George V [in Paris], they like bands to come in and bash it up, as long as they pay for it,” he adds, taking a ruminative puff on his e-cigarette....
...Gerard Lyons: The Bank of England still has many policy options....
...That, in turn, has softened the coronavirus economic crash in March and helped spark a subsequent rebound — creating a growth chart that looks like the “b” and “n” shape in the shorthand sign for “bank”....
...Amount of money raised so far: Holvi raised a total of €4.3m between 2011 and 2015. Valuation at latest fundraising: N/A Major shareholders: In 2016 Spanish banking group BBVA acquired Holvi....
...On a l’argent du Fonds mondial, on a eu le « replenishment » l’année dernière à Lyon, 14 milliards....
...US regional bank PNC hit the headlines in December when it tightened the ways it allowed non-banks to access data....
...Christopher Donahue, chief executive, said that Federated would continue to look for similar deals to the PNC transaction with other banks, bringing fund assets to a “warm and comfortable home.”...
...Just 30% expect a V shaped recovery in the stock market....
...Blog bits n bobs Izzy took us through how central-bank digital currencies (CBDCs) might be used as a kind of digital stimulus; a new tool for unconventional monetary policy at a time of unconventional happenings...
...But if the veteran banker was guilty of over-optimism when predicting the fortunes of Barclays five years ago, he is striking a cautious note now. “I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says....
...The energy transition strategy update in March is key to becoming more positive on the stock, absent a V-shaped recovery for their O&G customers. Glaring value?...
...vote of no confidence from the bond market in the idea of a V shaped economic recovery....
...Airbus – cut to N from OW; remove from AFL: AIR looks in a better position than Boeing, which is also dealing with the MAX grounding and a weak balance sheet....
...Valuation and recommendation: HSBC’s shares have fallen by 42% year-to-date versus a 51% fall in the average share price of the other mainstream UK banks....
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