Oriental Bank v. Bennett et al

The mystery of the mogul, the casino and the heist that rocked Mayfair

...Two months later, Melniks was walking out of the Mandarin Oriental in central London when two men he had never seen before tried to bundle him into a car....

May 12, 2022

FTfmJohn Dizard

What is the true value of Burford’s $773m claim against YPF?

...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...

May 1, 2020

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Equities

Markets Now - Thursday 14th May 2020

...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....

May 14, 2020

Equities

Markets Now - Thursday 9th April 2020

...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....

April 9, 2020

Cordelia Jenkins

Opinion today: How corruption went global

...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....

June 19, 2018

FTfmJohn Dizard

London may be key to ‘hot’ euro-yuan rival to the US dollar

...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....

January 7, 2018

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

There really isn’t such thing as a policy independent exchange rate anyway

...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...

August 18, 2015

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

A circuit breaker for the Wunderbund?

...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....

May 7, 2015

FT AlphavilleSujeet Indap

Beta max

...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...

June 19, 2015

FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane

This isn’t the Chinese capital account liberalisation you’re looking for

...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....

July 17, 2015

Gavyn Davies

The Great Moderation, Version 2.0

...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...

April 13, 2014

FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill

Argentina’s pari passu upset — redux

...al, and without the stay in place....

August 23, 2013

FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill

Pari passu: judgment day

...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....

June 27, 2013

FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill

The consent of the (bondholder) governed

...Azevedo et al called it something different — “in the nature of a bribe”....

April 22, 2013

FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill

L’état, c’est plagued by holdouts

...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....

November 19, 2012

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill

A eurozone safe against, or is it safe for, sovereign holdouts? Part two

...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....

February 19, 2013

FT AlphavilleJoseph Cotterill

“Repent, Argentina!” said the ticktock judges (part one)

...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....

March 2, 2013

ReviewLife & Arts

Books of the Year

...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...

November 29, 2013

Christopher CaldwellMedia

Pull the plug on TV’s push to dodge decency standards

...The case (now called FCC v. Fox Television Stations et al) was appealed to the US Supreme Court, where it was debated on Tuesday....

January 13, 2012

FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska

On the ECB’s ‘most significant non-standard measure’

...According to Cassola et al. (2009), banks submitted more aggressive bids in order to make sure that they receive at least a minimum level of liquidity....

December 8, 2011

beyondbrics

London headlines

...Oriental Mandarin keen on managing second Oberoi hotel in Mumbai One of the world’s top hospitality chain, Mandarin Oriental, is in talks with newly-listed Oberoi Realty to set up its first hotel in India...

May 4, 2011

beyondbrics

New York headlines

...Oriental Mandarin keen on managing second Oberoi hotel in Mumbai One of the world’s top hospitality chain, Mandarin Oriental, is in talks with newly-listed Oberoi Realty to set up its first hotel in India...

May 4, 2011

FT AlphavilleEquities

David Rosenberg on why the yield curve will flatten – this time!

...So, Bernanke et al are now going to be increasingly targeting longer-term interest rates as a means to revive growth, mitigate double-dip risks and avoid a potentially destabilizing deflationary experience...

August 13, 2010

FT AlphavillePaul Murphy

A Twin Cities FX scandal – SEC freezes Pat Kiley assets

November 24, 2009

Q&AEurozone economy

New Greece in the bloc?

...John Bennett, Kent Hello John. No, they are not....

June 14, 2010

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