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...The progress made by Chinese companies and regulators in Beijing poses a new challenge to the west, which is already lagging behind China in the development of electric vehicles, according to analysts, and...
...“Winner” indicates that the organisation won an FT Innovative Lawyers North America award for 2022....
...That’s why the company is seeking to buy what it calls “mini-MatchMoves” in markets in central Europe, Latin America and the US, he said....
...Three North American companies are setting up a rare earths supply chain to reduce dependence on China for the vital metals used in weapons, electric vehicles and other advanced technology....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 4 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The insurance company, which along with the likes of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns came to symbolise Wall Street recklessness when taxpayers bailed it out in 2008, will no longer be considered a threat...
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Huge US insurance company MetLife makes an odd underdog, admittedly, but it was the lone group to fight the Feds when it was labelled “systemically important”. On Wednesday its pugnacity was rewarded....
...Barely had Wall Street got used to the idea of Microsoft paying $26bn for professional networking company LinkedIn when the electric carmaker Tesla Motors joined the fray, writes Richard Waters....
...Last year, a Google car rounded a corner to find a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck with a broom in the middle of the road....
...General Electric’s aviation division, whose North Carolina plant employs one manager to supervise 300 technicians....
...Office work required innumerable clerks to operate the keyboards of electric typewriters that had no ability to download content from the rest of the world....
...MetLife said it supported strong rules but argued it was not as integral as regulators have concluded, despite its widely held insurance products and heavy involvement in capital markets....
...(Financial Times) Bloomberg to take helm at data group: Michael Bloomberg is taking the reins of his eponymous market data company from Dan Doctoroff, chief executive of Bloomberg for the past six years...
...(Financial Times) In response to regulation, Goldman ditching less profitable clients and changing rules for hedge funds (WSJ) Argentina v holdouts: plus ça change (Financial Times) Espírito Santo: the...
...The FSOC has since handed “systemically important financial institution” (Sifi) status to two US insurance companies, AIG and Prudential, and to General Electric’s GE Capital subsidiary....
...Japan’s losses were driven by comments from central bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda....
...The company said that it raised $1.8bn (£1.1bn) after selling 69 million shares, valuing the company at more than $25bn.”...
...(Financial Times) Insurance-to-travel group Saga is putting the finishing touches to a multibillion-pound flotation....
...Mr Buffett invests via his ownership of insurance company Berkshire Hathaway. Top shareholdings: Coca-Cola; ConocoPhillips; DirecTV; GlaxoSmithKline; General Electric; IBM....
...In 1979, the skyscraper was sold for $85m to pension fund Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association – College Retirement Equities Fund....
...bank holding company status....
...Mitsubishi Electric, however, eased 0.2 per cent to Y662....
...Examples ● Two of the world’s biggest industrial companies – General Electric and Siemens – have vast financial arms....
...Re-insurance itself was not neglected, notably with the $7.4bn acquisition in November 2005 of General Electric Insurance Solutions, the US group’s reinsurance business, in a well-judged buy that boosted...
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