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Family had turned to Abu Dhabi to back its latest offer to regain control of UK newspaper group
Lender that seized Telegraph Media Group holds a guarantee over the retail and financial services business
Gulf finance in demand as rival media groups circle conservative broadsheet
Former minister David Davis among those calling for greater scrutiny of proposed deal
Conservative backbencher move comes as culture secretary is set to ask watchdogs to probe RedBird IMI’s bid
Investor run by former CNN boss offers to help finance deal as German publisher Axel Springer pulls out of auction
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Redbird IMI plans to offer further assurances to ensure independence of the newspaper
Family increases bid to £1bn as bank prepares for sale of newspaper and Spectator magazine
Abu Dhabi-backed group run by former CNN boss agrees to help Barclay family pay off its loans
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Regulators to investigate RedBird IMI’s debt for equity deal, but not its repayment of bank loans owed by the Barclay family
...Weiss left for rival Universal in 2011, and Stringer took over from Doug Morris as boss of the group in 2017....
Former Tory chair acting as middle man between family and Middle East backers
...Fedspeak: Thomas Barkin, president of the Richmond branch of the US Federal Reserve, will speak about inflation at the Economic Club of New York in Manhattan....
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How a decade-long effort to restructure loans extended to the reclusive businessmen’s empire culminated in Lloyds Banking Group seizing control of a national newspaper
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...Thomas Werlen, a partner at Quinn Emanuel leading the litigation against Finma, described the language as “quite stark” and said the document was “even more helpful” to bondholders’ cause than the earlier...
...The lower than expected equity and capital benefits disclosed “nullifies elements of the bull case in our view and lends further support to our more cautious stance on UBS”, said KBW analyst Thomas Hallett...
...Her chief financial officer, Christine Morris, barely had time to unpack her boxes. Guy Debelle, who joined from the Reserve Bank of Australia, managed a year in the hydrogen division....
...Thomas Roulet, an associate professor at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, said corporate culture can explain “competitive advantage” within industries....
...Facing oblivion Next the bank turned to longtime executive Thomas Gottstein to steer the bank out of the crisis. But within a year, the wheels fell off spectacularly....
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