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...Hong Kong scrapped hotel quarantine rules for visitors arriving in the city in September last year and lifted other pandemic-era restrictions in December....
...Separately, it paid a $25mn penalty to the CFPB related to private student loan servicing practices. “Capital One is a healthy, well-managed, well-capitalised bank....
...In France, the Netherlands and Japan, bankruptcies were up more than 30 per cent year on year in October, according to national statistics offices....
...Manulife is buying CQS, marking the end of an era for its founder Sir Michael Hintze....
...“We have left that era [of zero rates] behind us,” said Stephen Millard, a deputy director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London....
...But the ill-fated acquisition meant to herald a new era for the German lender after the financial crisis resulted in a 13-year struggle to integrate the lenders’ data....
...Britain’s debt is running at close to 100 per cent of national income and debt servicing costs have soared....
...A number of them will just be set aside as national parks. Some might be strictly for scientific purposes so that they're not touched by any sort of commercial activity....
...Gates’s biggest UK investments, for example, have been in retailer Carpetright, jet servicing group Signature Aviation and Bunzl, a distributor of disposable cutlery....
...The eighth author was Lukasz Kaiser, who was also a part-time academic at France’s National Centre for Scientific Research....
...As rates have gone up, loan repayments have increased and companies have had to spend more money servicing their debt....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Letter in response to this comment: Reagan-era beneficiaries put to the test on taxation / From Guy Wroble, Denver, CO, UK...
...“As watch sales have grown steadily over the years, the servicing grows exponentially behind that, as all the watches stay in the market,” says Walsh....
...Google’s YouTube has secured rights to broadcast some US National Football League matches from next season, in a landmark deal that signals how Big Tech is reshaping the market for live sports rights....
...While space exploration used to be about state-backed programmes focused on national security, national pride and scientific research, the US started pulling back on centralised government control of space...
...But the singer is the exception to the rule, the FT’s Anna Nicolaou writes, as music labels stretch themselves to satisfy fragmented audiences in the streaming era....
...De facto monetary tightening as debt-servicing costs continue to rise and a (probably modest) rise in unemployment will broadly offset lower inflation....
...The result is there to see in a surge in gilt yields, which will raise UK debt servicing costs....
...They really see this as being, you know, a national institution which has been lost through incompetence and poor management....
...But in an era of rising interest rates and a stalled economy, the nascent asset class is facing its first real test....
...The cost of servicing France’s large public debts has begun to climb along with interest rates, prompting a stern warning recently from the national auditor....
...That is partly because the experience of investors during the John Fallon era still hangs over the company 18 months after he left....
...It’s the most bloated legislative chamber in the world apart from the Chinese National People’s Congress....
...Orban’s son-in-law now also owns a bank, of course, servicing many state clients, by the way, and you could go on and on....
...Short-term loans made through the iPhone maker’s new Apple Pay Later service will be made through a wholly owned subsidiary, Apple Financing LLC....
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