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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....
...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....
...“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....
...In April, the foundation will open the ITS Arcademy, Museum of Art in Fashion on the fourth floor of a grand late-19th-century former bank HQ in central Trieste....
...At the moment, 64 separate carbon pricing initiatives cover about 21.5 per cent of emissions globally, according to figures from the World Bank....
...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....
...The professor apparently quoted Huck Finn, which of course uses the N-word, in explaining to a foreign student why censorship might happen....
...Carlsen’s hopes of a fast start against a nervous opponent were dashed as the Russian revived the Anti-Marshall 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 0-0 Be7 6 Re1 b5 7 Bb3 0-0 8 a4!?...
...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....
...Liberty also said Iain Hunter, a former chief executive officer of Wyelands Bank, which counts Gupta as its main shareholder, becomes chief governance officer....
...“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....
...However, it has been the subject of a scintillating Wall Street courtroom drama. And they make a stiff Dark n’ Stormy....
...Switzerland’s Philipp Hildebrand is a non-EU frontrunner, having served as head of the country’s central bank....
...Perhaps it will be a V-shaped recovery after all, where V stands for vaccine....
...K.V. Subramanian, the government’s chief economic adviser, said there were signs of a rebound....
...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....
...C’est l’erreur qu’on n’a pas faite au sortir de la deuxième guerre mondiale, on a dit « Il y a des dettes, Plan Marshall. » Plan Marshall, tout le monde en parle encore aujourd’hui, puisque c’est ce qu’on...
...US regional bank PNC hit the headlines in December when it tightened the ways it allowed non-banks to access data....
...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?...
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