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...Before long, the national press dubbed him the German Bill Gates. The prodigy was unimpressed with the comparison, complaining: “At 16, [Bill Gates] didn’t have his own company.”...
...Tim O’Hara, who joined Wells from BlackRock last year and is based in New York, now leads its investment bank....
...Factory gate prices were down 4.4 per cent, while core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, was up 0.8 per cent....
...David O’Sullivan, the EU sanctions envoy, recently travelled to the UAE, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan to convey the west’s tough message....
...Why From the back garden of the house, a gate opens on to the secluded Bank Gardens and access to the peaceful Water of Leith....
...(In the west, most countries opted for approaches which didn’t require digital identity.)...
...House, Chiswick, £18.5mn Where On Chiswick Mall on the north bank of the river Thames, in the Old Chiswick Conservation Area....
...Austin agrees, calling his industry’s recent history “a wild west”, when people routinely hacked bank accounts and offered bribes. “That was when you had all the big Russian oligarch legislation....
...Thank God for Theaster Gates and his sermon. “Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon”, Whitechapel Gallery, to January 9, whitechapelgallery.org....
...Standing in an arch atop Isfahan’s historic Si-o-Se Pol bridge, Farzad peers down at the water gushing below, recalling how days earlier the river bed was dry and its banks empty of people....
...The extensive stock – some 20,000 books – has included gems such as a 1937 copy of Gone With the Wind inscribed by Vivien Leigh to a friend before she was cast as Scarlett O’Hara in the film, and A Tale...
...(FT) ECB squashes Deutsche Bank plans on bonuses The European Central Bank has shot down Deutsche Bank’s plans to increase its bonus pool by more than a third after Germany’s largest lender reported a small...
...Coopershill, 13 miles south of Sligo, was built in 1774 for the Cooper-O’Hara family; their descendants still live on the 500-acre estate while running the house as a small but luxurious hotel....
...Large banks are resisting, but less than ever....
...On a side street in Kensington, West London, sits an unassuming whitewashed building called Thorpe Lodge....
...West Kabul is home to what for decades was one of the great visual clichés of Afghanistan’s tragic modern history....
...For buyers in Italy such as the O’Haras, what chance of getting their deposit back?...
...The title of UCCA’s main exhibition, named after a Frank O’Hara poetry collection, Meditations in an Emergency, promises a space for reflection for all of us caught up in this moment....
...Behind the Money digs into big banks’ seemingly Covid-immune alternate reality....
...“It has been like the wild west, getting stuff out of China,” says Chen....
...H2O chief Bruno Crastes (below), emphatically reassured investors as his company bled assets, vowing “never” to gate the fund....
...We bought a dilapidated farmhouse at the end of a sunken lane on the banks of the Winniford river . From where I work, I can see a thin “V” in the hills leading to the beach at Seatown....
...Now, as they embark upon global ambitions, the west is rapidly erecting a great wall of opposition....
...V&A, Cromwell Rd, SW7 (vam.ac.uk). The Wolseley, 160 Piccadilly, W1 (thewolseley.com)...
...Thirty-day ocean journeys for goods from China to the US west coast were once deemed too slow; now they are too rushed as economic lockdowns drain demand for the incoming goods....
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