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...Munich Re’s main insurance business Ergo provided about €700mn in loans, while Germany’s fourth largest insurance group R+V lent €500mn, more than half of which is not collateralised, according to the documents...
...It was he who in 1971 lent the newly married Quentin the money to make her first acquisition....
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...At a Brookings Institution event in September, Ryan called Moore v US a “misguided challenge” adding: “I’m not for a wealth tax, but I think if you use this as the argument to spike a wealth tax, you’re...
...Enjoy your weekend, Elaine Moore Deputy head of Lex...
...This is how it worked: One hour after the New York Stock Exchange opened, brokers like Moore and Schley took call deposits from ‘cash’-rich New York banks and lent the cash on call to investors like Grant...
...But he has also said it was “critical” for countries to have alternatives to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, which has lent on opaque terms....
...It’s a novel-length tale that serves as both billet-doux and poison pen letter to a medium — comics — in which Alan Moore, as the writer of such seminal works of graphic fiction as Watchmen, V for Vendetta...
...The bank had hired him the previous year at the age of 89, and had lent him $478,000 during the twelve months of his employment there....
...Peter Wilson, Sotheby’s mercurial chair, lent him a publicist for its inaugural show. It generated the first of many long queues of Japanese people snaking along Piccadilly....
...Two years before that, she played Henry V at Regent’s Park, and insists that both times, rather than wanting to “play a man”, she wanted to understand how to play Henry or Hamlet....
...He also lent money to Fulham football club and as a club director he was involved in poaching Bobby Moore from West Ham, so he was not all bad in my eyes. My mother did not see it like that, though....
...Since launching his eponymous label in 2005, his feminine designs have attracted clients including the Princess of Wales, Julianne Moore and Michelle Obama....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...At the heart of the fair, the V&A’s Melanie Vandenbrouck has curated a sculpture display on the east-west axis previously occupied by the bar....
...According to his notes, most meetings seem to start by someone saying how busy and tired they are: Henry Moore is “harassed”, Zandra Rhodes is “quite drowsy”, Rudolf Nureyev is “exhausted”....
...During his lifetime Hodgkin lent his keen eye for colour and form to everyone from the Royal Mail to the Ballet Rambert; book covers for the likes of Susan Sontag and Alan Hollinghurst; and even a billboard...
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...The onions gave it crunch, the lard gave it body and the paprika gave it spice but, as often with these things, it was the location that lent the extra magic....
...The same collection also lent the V&A a gold and enamel box, and both have been retained in Britain. So this is a tricky one: do those objects count as public art, or as pieces of private wealth?...
...You can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Happy reading!...
...The archive lent to the V&A was “his personal classroom”, says the V&A’s Luffman, full of forms he repeated or changed gradually over time — a mug handle here, the shape of a dish there....
...Those who donate to the V&A want to memorialise their own or another’s life through style....
...Insurer LV has appointed Simon Moore as chair to replace Alan Cook, who stepped down earlier this year following its aborted sale to US private equity company Bain Capital....
...Adam Samson and Joshua Oliver have the scoop on how Binance advertised an investment scheme, in which clients lent out their terra to earn a yield of almost 20 per cent, as a “safe and happy” opportunity...
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