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...Peter Zaffino, who has led the US insurer since 2021, was hailed as a “visionary, insightful leader” when AIG announced a five-year extension to his contract in November that included the restricted stock...
...A son of Qatar’s former prime minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, one of the Gulf state’s richest men, has submitted an offer for Manchester United, as bidding gets under way for the Premier...
...In doing so, they have been increasingly muscling out the traditional Sand Hill Road VC merchants, who like to think they know best how to fund the future....
...Capital One’s $35.3bn proposed takeover of Discover Financial Services would fuse two leading credit card lenders and give it control of a network that connects consumers, merchants and banks....
...Levine, a CAA board member and co-head of its sports division, told the Financial Times that the firm spent years preparing for Ohtani’s free agency and how it would vet competing teams’ interest in the two-way...
...But this curious aspect is a legacy of its conception as an extension of the Berkeley next door – like The Emory, part of the Maybourne Group....
...There are urban flagships on the way in Shanghai, Mexico City and – the most buzzed-about – a new, second hotel in London, where Rosewood is currently gutting the former US Embassy building on Grosvenor...
...Whichever way they’ll go, Looney’s successor will need to be better at winning over shareholders....
...The mainstreaming of generative AI may indeed place ever more powerful weapons of mischief in the hands of scam artists, disinformation merchants and other unambiguously bad actors....
...The government has two weeks to respond — although it can ask for an extension — after which Leigh Day will decide whether to issue proceedings in court....
...Stripe, for example, settles payments for merchants that participate on platforms from Lyft to Shopify....
...A sea change is under way in markets, writes Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chair of Oaktree Capital Management, in this opinion piece....
...With that in mind, we present to you the Sistine Chapel of wrong-way risk: As security for the unpaid amount, Equity interests in SVF2 LLC held by MgmtCo will be pledged as collateral for the unpaid obligations...
...For Francesco, who joined the business in 2020 after a stint in New York, the future of Positano lies in the opportunity to open up the region to travellers by offering a quiet extension to the season....
...Adam York, a business owner living in south-west London, faced such a choice after plans for an architect-designed house renovation ran way over budget....
...China Merchants Bank, the country’s third-largest lender by market value, announced the sudden removal of its president Tian Huiyu, per Nikkei Asia....
...So there is no other way to really make money for North Korea other than to turn to illicit activities....
...PLL chief executive Michael Rabil said: “They partner with their portfolio companies and sellers in a deeper [and] more dedicated way than I’ve seen [with] other merchant bankers.”...
...either didn’t yield a token to our searching, or are companies that say the token is on its way....
...In the process, it shone a spotlight on two of the most important trends shaping the future of cloud computing — and, by extension, much of the IT world. One of these goes by the name multi-cloud....
...But he did not rule out a possible extension....
...“We are not against the Club World Cup; we just want to do it the right way,” he said....
...“He made his borscht in a very simple way,” Klopotenko tells me, “by placing whole beets in a pot of water inside his wood-burning stove.”...
...The expedition gave Wirecard a clean bill of health — but the merchants did not exist....
...The move comes just five months after the Wall Street bank reorganised its asset management division, combining it with the former merchant banking unit and placing it under the leadership of Lane and Julian...
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