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...They join gallery stalwarts, including Ugo Rondinone, Franz West and Steven Shearer, in a show of about 80 works by about 26 artists (November 11 to February 24)....
...This dances above the keyboard: it spins and tilts, back and forth, full of nervous energy as it moves to impress each letter through an inked ribbon to make a legible mark on the paper....
...Fellow up-and-comers Chopova Lowena and Nensi Dojaka also made their mark in London....
...He was in Steven Spielberg’s AI and made a mark in the deft political dramas Syriana and The Good Shepherd....
...Steven Maijoor, chairman of Esma, said: “Transparency is important to ensure that markets are fair, sound and efficient....
...The setbacks wiped out most of the gains made by investors in Capital Solutions II, a previous fund that investors viewed as similar....
...(II) Divi recap What do investment bankers who deal in risky corporate debt do when there are not enough racy loans to meet demand from yield-starved investors?...
...Steven Harris is stepping down as a board director at Woodford Patient Capital Trust. More here....
...“It’s about the inability of the broker to tell the story to the right groups of people,” said Steven Fine, chief executive of City broker Peel Hunt....
...“Pastor Brunson’s unjust detention and continued prosecution by Turkish officials is simply unacceptable,” said treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin....
...Others have chosen to change direction — this month, top Barclays analyst Mark Lewis moved to head the research department of a think-tank. But there are still those who are confident....
...The move marks the first time the regulator will use new so-called “product intervention” powers, granted to it under the sprawling Mifid II legislation that come into force at the beginning of January....
...Mark Carney, BoE governor, went so far as to say in November that Solvency II would be one of the pieces of EU regulation that the UK might roll back after Brexit....
...January 3 marks a defining moment in financial regulation, the much anticipated introduction of a revamped version of Europe’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, more commonly known as Mifid II....
...“Poor Mrs May really has a lot of catching up to do,” says Mark Malloch Brown, a British diplomat and former deputy UN secretary-general under Kofi Annan....
...Smart reads Ring the alarm Howard Marks, the billionaire investors, says it is beginning to look a lot like the last crisis....
...Tim Adams, chief executive of the Institute for International Finance lobby group, wrote last week to US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, saying a repeal of Title II — the orderly liquidation element of...
...The recent much more thorough study by Alan Blinder and Mark Watson shows that Democrats are much better for business than Republicans. Little is going right or giving confidence....
...Suzanne Evans, formerly Ukip’s deputy chairman, said the party’s new leader must not be “Nigel Farage Mark II” and should instead lay claim to the “common sense centre ground”....
...Perhaps the only question mark over her transition to the Royal is the issue of partners. She’s had several — Carlos Acosta, Federico Bonelli, Steven McRae, Matthew Golding. Does she choose them?...
...To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, beginning in February, the touring programme will include established actors such as Sir Antony Sher appearing in the Henry IV plays and emerging ones...
...Meanwhile, architect Steven Holl talks of “complementary contrast” in his new buildings....
...• Tilman Lueder, head of the European Commission’s asset management division is moving to the EC securities market unit, where he will oversee the implementation of Mifid II....
...The paradigm shifted in the 1970s, when The Godfather: Part II became the first sequel to win best picture at the Academy Awards....
...Mark Wiedman, chief executive of iShares, the world’s largest ETF manager, says the shift to fee- based accounts by financial advisers is no longer viewed as just an Anglo-Dutch experiment....
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