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...US defence contractors are missing out on a global military boom as legislative deadlock in Washington creates government spending uncertainty....
...SVB Financial Group has sued the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in a bid to recover $1.9bn in cash that the regulator has kept since it took over the group’s banking subsidiary in March....
...But [the risk profile of natural materials] can narrow the market....
...These are companies that employ contractors who work on temporary contracts, and shelter large businesses from the expense of hiring permanent staff....
...“The risk is that gig economy is seen as marginal while it is generating increasingly large profits for companies and its workers must be protected,” said Andrea Borghesi, a member of the CGIL union....
...In addition Aviva’s sensitivities show that it is significantly long longevity risk (vs mortality risk), and the group has benefited from significant (>£700m) longevity releases in each of the last 3 years...
...The list includes satellite operator Inmarsat, aerospace and defence contractor Cobham and entertainment group Merlin. Who said Brexit was bad for M&A....
...Discussions with Anbang, the Chinese insurance group, came to a halt some time before its flashy chairman Wu Xiaohui landed in a Chinese jail....
...The trend reflects a growing realisation of the importance of wellbeing to staff recruitment, retention and productivity, even among policymakers....
...Simon French: The UK economy faces a real problem from the growing disincentives to be a publicly listed company....
...he preferred were passed over....
...We’ll end the practice of purchasing services through overseas branches to avoid UK VAT and we’ll crack down on insurance companies routing services through offshore territories....
...Breakneck growth in the boom years left the group with what several insiders have called “spaghetti infrastructure”. At its peak, the bank used 6,300 risk models and 108 trading systems....
...He told his friends he had started working as an independent contractor for a pharmaceutical group — not a lie exactly, but a bending of the truth: it would have been more honest to say he had become a human...
...LLC....
...IT risk exposure extends to business partners too. Your company has some level of exposure to the risks to which each of your partners are exposed....
...Patient investors, which have traditionally included pension funds and insurance companies alongside families, are increasingly making way for very short-term holders of company shares....
...companies—who don’t mark-to-market as they—at least in principle—hold the debt to maturity and/or in the “banking book”....
...“The crisis is affecting business concerns about the sustainability of Dubai, especially where it comes to the honouring of contracts,” says Elizabeth Stephens, risk analyst with insurance broker Jardine...
...In 2000 the Revenue clamped down on contractors working predominantly for one customer through the IR35 provision....
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