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...Its headcount in the Americas has doubled since 2010 to just over 3,000....
...Which fintech tie-ups do you see happening by the end of the year? Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...s decision to settle eight sexual harassment lawsuits with company funds, and to take no disciplinary action against the CEO, were “routine business decisions in the interest of the corporation”....
...The Big Three are on course to control 40 per cent of the votes in American corporations in a couple of decades....
...In large part, this bid is sourced from the buybacks (and mergers) from USA Inc. itself. However, individual investors have returned to the “party” — never a good sign....
...GFG Alliance, the acquisitive industrial conglomerate led by British metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta, is buying a US steel company for $320m as it pursues plans to invest $5bn in North America....
...Following the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, the group was bailed out by the state-backed Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) and customer companies including Toyota, Nissan and Panasonic...
...John Howard, the senior vice president for products, had overseen Panasonic’s chip-making subsidiary. It wasn’t often that you found executives of that caliber at a small startup....
...Yet it may soon own the majority of America’s local daily newspapers after it targeted USA Today owner Gannett, one of the largest regional newspaper companies in the US and second worldwide to News Corp...
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...Comment from WendellMurray on Donald Trump’s diplomatic turn to N Korea deserves acclaim I have never understood the refusal of the USA government to talk to the North Korean government....
...Sprint-T-Mobile merger awaits regulatory approval T-Mobile USA and Sprint agreed a deal at the third time of asking to create a company aimed at taking a much larger slice of the world’s most valuable mobile...
...The bank had announced a settlement between BUSA and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and California’s Department of Business Overisght in July 2015, when it also announced its plan to wind down...
...In a statement, Citibanamex said the Banamex USA operations would be closed by the end of June....
...As Mr Trump sent out another #BuyAmericanHireAmerican tweet this week, Barry Eccleston, chief executive of Airbus Americas, told the Financial Times: “The rhetoric coming out of Washington on buy USA, promote...
...America....
...Ford later announced it was cutting 1,400 salaried jobs in North America and Asia and said it would move production of the Ford Focus, from Mexico to China — not the US....
...The penalty is the latest in a rush of agreements between US authorities and corporations in the final days of the Obama administration and is set to be one of the final acts by Tim Massad, chair of the...
...“The EPA, in far too many instances, has run amok,” Mr Icahn told the Financial Times: “Overregulation is the reason corporations are afraid to invest and as a result there’s a lack of good jobs and productivity...
...The best known is Tesla and Panasonic’s huge Nevada “gigafactory”....
...Round leads to the creation of the World Trade Organisation 5 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement comes into force 6 1999 Anti-globalisation protests break out at the WTO’s ministerial meeting...
...● Lindy Freeman has moved to BlackRock as North America head of business development for the financial institutions group....
...(The Atlantic) London skyline 1616 v 2016 Juxtaposed images sketched 400 years apart show the change in the city’s skyline from the banks of the Thames. (The Guardian)...
...In the US, these include Santander Consumer USA and OneMain Holdings, both thriving during an era of low borrowing costs and an improving US economy....
...New rules for trading swaps, which are used by banks and corporations to either hedge or take exposure to fluctuating interest rate and currency moves, have dramatically altered the market in the US....
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