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...In July, US financial technology group Fidelity National Information Services agreed to sell a majority stake in its merchant payments arm Worldpay to private equity firm GTCR in a $18.5bn deal, this year...
...Analysts say that at a national level this can weigh on growth for years....
...Elsewhere, it is worth noting the substantive excess liquidity build, with deposits +6% q/q (implying end-2Q LTD of <67%)....
...Alternative asset managers have gathered significant assets from national wealth funds, pension funds and endowments. Insurance is one of the few large pots remaining to be tapped. sujeet.indap@ft.com...
...“As people move to the digital realm, the traditional methods of authentication don’t work,” says Rob Harris, vice-president of product management at Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), which supplies...
...In 2016, he won a significant case contesting a death sentence in Hurst v Florida....
...In 2014, state-owned China National Building Materials acquired Avancis, a German manufacturer of advanced materials used in solar panels....
...On the other hand, India’s service sector inflation, which has only recently been included in the country’s national CPI, remains positive, with an increasing divergence away from the GVA service sector...
...Services is the only thing that offsets this, with finance and business services making up two-thirds of our services surplus....
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd Feel about the same as 12 months ago Back then, we believed that the decision to leave the EU would be negative for the UK economy...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd Whatever the final Brexit deal, the UK will remain part of the EU next year and hence will have very limited leeway to control...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd In our view, he will need to use the headroom, because we expect the economy to be weaker than the Office for Budget Responsibility...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd We do expect the UK economy to slow down significantly in 2017....
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd There remains a high level of uncertainty over the policy platform the incoming US administration will adopt....
...South Korea’s National Pension Service, Samsung C&T’s biggest shareholder, is also expected to back the deal, after controversially deciding not to refer its decision to an external advisory committee that...
...Kathrin Muehlbronner, sovereign risk group, Moody’s Investor’s Service Ltd We believe that the Bank of England will probably stay put in 2017....
...Indeed, “whilst all money is credit, not all credit is money: it is the possibility of transfer that makes the difference”....
...She took me to the National Gallery to show me a Vermeer. I remember it vividly. I said, ‘Where are we going now?’...
...Names currently being misused include the FSA, National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and the US Securities & Exchange Commission....
...His award is for services to education as chair of the National College for School Leadership....
...And Australia’s household debt-to-GDP ratio is among the highest in the world, thanks to absurdly high house prices and a big credit boom....
...Risk aversion sent Misys sliding 6 per cent to 358p amid concerns that its talks to be bought by Fidelity National Information Services may come to nothing....
...Weekend headlines from the FT and other UK media:* From The FT, - Putin unaware of TNK-BP claim on Rosneft deal - Oil millions still flow for Gaddafi - KBC sells Centea arm to Crédit Agricole...
...Greater equity holdings by the National Pension Service, the country’s public pension fund, are also viewed as a key factor in stabilising the market....
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