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...Nicholas Munson had been NYCB’s head of risk since 2019 but left the bank early this year, according to people familiar with the matter and his LinkedIn page, which was recently deleted....
...The hapless tsar, Nicholas II, appointed himself as his successor and so contributed to the doom hastening towards him....
...There are just five pages referencing superforecasting on the entire Bank of England website — though that’s more than other central banks....
...They shut down Russia’s elected Constituent Assembly, murdered Tsar Nicholas II and his family, set up the Cheka secret police and created the Comintern, a body dedicated to world revolution....
...Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton, Allen Lane £30/Harvard University Press $39.95, 304 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The pages from le Carré’s archive are a terrific reminder that writing is labour. Le Carré handwrites, crosses out, the pages are typewritten and then sections are cut and stapled over other pages....
...Marc Filippino Nicholas Megaw covers the US capital markets for the FT. Thanks, Nick. Nicholas Megaw Thanks....
...Founded in 2005, the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet” has battled through management upheaval and moderation scandals to grow to 73mn daily users across its 100,000 communities, or “subreddits...
...Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare (Harvill Secker) Shakespeare, renowned biographer of Bruce Chatwin, reveals a story worthy of a Bond novel in his life of Ian Fleming....
...The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman Profile, £16.99, Harper, $27.99, 208 pages Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare Harvill Secker, £30, 864 pages Join our online book group...
...Last summer in these pages I wrote how this type of jacket — more than an overskirt but not as formal as a blazer — now finds itself at the in-flight intersection of style and comfort....
...Much of the book reads like an examination of the life and times of the author and former trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb — a divisive character who combines a fierce intellect, genuinely useful insights and...
...The novel is said to be a “page-turner” and one of the opera’s strengths is that it holds the attention in the same page-turner way (except perhaps for half a dozen possible curtain-down moments leading...
...Pianist Peter Jablonski and Nicholas Collon, conducting the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, light its fuse from the opening bars....
...We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years by Stephen D King, Yale £20, 224 pages Nicholas Macpherson is a former permanent secretary at the UK Treasury Join our online...
...Nicholas Bull wrote: “You’ve mentioned a number of times that certain fine wines are quickly getting out of reach for even relatively well-paid people....
...Smart read Green investment could be the key to ending the UK’s “rut of stagnating productivity and economic growth”, argues Nicholas Stern....
...In 2001, Nick and Giles English, two brothers, seemingly straying from the pages of a Biggles novel, crash-landed a vintage biplane in a pea field in Champagne....
...The combination of political repression and economic expansion also characterised the reigns of tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Russia industrialised at...
...Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion by Nicholas Spencer, Oneworld £25, 480 pages Jane Shaw is professor of the history of religion at the University of Oxford Join our online book...
...Mannerheim went to cavalry school in St Petersburg and was part of the guard of honour at tsar Nicholas II’s coronation in 1896....
...Nicholas Chapman, representing the government, told the hearing the row over the unredacted messages had occurred despite “all best endeavours to reach agreement” and that it was a “regrettable but genuine...
...Gary Gensler, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said the measures outlined in more than 1,500 pages of documents on Wednesday would improve “competition and benefit both everyday investors...
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