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...The global city where Big Four professionals use burner phones For decades, Hong Kong has made its name as a global city, a place where companies could base their Asia-Pacific headquarters and do business...
...At its core, a payment is a communication between two banks; that of the merchant (known as the acquirer bank) and that of the customer (called the issuer bank)....
...If you look across the Atlantic, the big French banks are what are known as bancassurance banks. And they have found a great way-- I mean, they make money hand over fist doing it their way....
...These days, he manages his crypto accounts by dividing them into two pots — one for doing business and the other to hold for the long term....
...David Bell: It will stagnate, probably doing as badly as other advanced countries (USA excepted)....
...Natixis, a co-operative bank, had never been known for stringent risk controls and, though it owned a majority, wouldn’t interfere with Crastes’s day-to-day decision making....
...One thing to start: Diageo will end its business relationship with Sean Combs, known as Diddy, after the businessman and rapper alleged racial discrimination by the drinks group, which it “categorically...
...Former FDIC chair Bill Isaac says that while he credited JPMorgan for doing “a great public service” by buying a series of failed banks, “I just question whether that is the outcome we should want as a matter...
...I mean, first of all, it’s slightly strange when you are the Labour leader who’s trying to reconnect with the City and prove yourself to be pro-business and pro the City and pro-banking and so forth....
...With co-operation between government, regulators and business closer than ever. We’ll deliver not just more competitive financial services, but a more innovative economy....
...Business and politics Italy’s incoming government will be tasked with deciding the futures of local lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena and restructured national airline ITA....
...As high streets and retail chains continue to collapse, more towns and city centres will struggle to attract business....
...Conversely, HSBC, the UK biggest bank, reported third-quarter profits that exceeded expectations as it overhauled its leadership team and announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer....
...A local high street spending database supplied by the Social Investment Business, a regeneration charity, and analysed by the Financial Times, shows that spending in-person in the City of London in September...
...This is known as foreshadowing....
...The world’s first stored-programme computer was built at the University of Manchester in 1948, and was known as the “Manchester baby”. 75 years on, the baby has grown up, so I will call this new national...
...“People want to talk to advisers more,” says Chris Woodhouse, chief executive of Evelyn Partners, the advisory group formerly known as Tilney Smith & Williamson....
...So, you know, people’s mortgages are already higher. Business investment is already lower. And of the impact on the national finances is real....
...The deal will make PNC the biggest of America’s regional banks, smaller only than the four national diversified banks (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup, as well as Wells) and the two largest...
...Fintech fascination More stories from the industry that caught our eye this week Wise becomes UK’s largest-ever tech listing The fintech formerly known as TransferWise completed its long-awaited public...
...basic services and income, may well displace the formerly hypnotic aim of high income, high productivity....
..., at a time when the city’s role as a business hub is coming under increasing scrutiny....
...Workers who had been trapped in the city for months rushed back to their hometowns as soon as the lockdown was lifted....
...Violent clashes between ordinary Hong Kongers and police have transformed the domestic and international perception of a city formerly famed for a rock-solid, business-first stability....
...Financial services is another area of contention, as Jack Ma’s ill-fated speech clearly showed....
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