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...Tony Blair to N.F.L star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Giselle Bundchen....
...The US fund firm announced it was pulling out of the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative last week, less than two years after signing up to the coalition of over 290 members managing a combined $66tn in assets...
...Despite the f-bombs, an SEC settlement and concerns about workplace safety all raining down on Musk, Tesla remains a star among global corporations that lobby for ambitious climate change policies, according...
...These initiatives follow Senator Marco Rubio’s recent calls for a review of ByteDance’s $900m purchase of the Musical.ly app in 2017....
...He was previously a senior vice-president in the office of strategic initiatives at the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)....
...It is hard, though, to sustain such an initiative in an industry in constant change, where turnover of staff in the field runs at 5 to 10 per cent a month....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 22, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...As the dog hits the ground with a dull thud, the voice intones: “God doesn’t give a f**k.”...
...This article is from the Nikkei Asian Review, a global publication with a uniquely Asian perspectives on politics, the economy, business and international affairs....
...Announcing BSI’s settlement, Stuart F Delery, then number three at the justice department in Washington, called the initiative to settle with Swiss banks “an innovative effort to get the financial institutions...
...If Trent Reznor [of Nine Inch Nails] says ‘Get the f**k out of my way,’ you get the f**k out of his way. Dr Dre said: ‘If you send one of your guys up to my studio they’re not going to make it out....
...She recently produced a series of short comedy films for Sky, which were directed by women, and is in favour of all-female initiatives....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 10. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Beau Woods, deputy director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, a DC-based think-tank, warned that the virus looked more powerful than WannaCry....
...The fund, which disperses $4bn a year, mainly provided by international governments, says Red has been the largest donor from the private sector. “It’s not just about the money....
...In particular, the BIS identified operational risks (loss due to significant deficiencies in system reliability or integrity, a.k.a a server goes down), security risks, reputational risks, legal risks, credit...
...The longest line at the Farnborough International Airshow this week was for a model aircraft....
...to longstanding initiatives....
...“This initiative should stimulate cost reduction by offering efficiency gains for investors and create the real possibility of placing the Brazilian market within international standards,” he said in a statement...
...He received the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for his coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone, as well as the Overseas Press Club Award for international magazine writing....
...Cargill, the world’s biggest agricultural trading house, and two other heavy users of international shipping are to stop using the industry’s least fuel-efficient vessels in an effort to lower global greenhouse...
...The Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, a UN-backed group, is on Monday holding a conference in Rio with exchanges including Nasdaq OMX from the US, Bovespa from Brazil, and the Istanbul stock exchange...
...“Traditionally, these were done from a purely philanthropic perspective and in a somewhat haphazard way,” says Karina Litvack, head of governance and sustainable investment at UK-based F&C Investments....
...One such initiative is a “co-location” facility in the Chicago suburbs, allowing traders to place their computers next to the exchange’s trade matching engine, slashing trading times....
...A loose coalition of advocates managed to persuade one lawmaker, who sold the initiative to his colleagues in the face of scepticism from existing agencies....
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