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...Plaid’s investors include Silver Lake Partners and Ribbit Capital, as well as the asset management arms of JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and American Express....
...Chief among them: the airline’s long-standing credit card deal with American Express....
...pan.yuk@ft.com...
...Meanwhile, BusinessEurope, a pan-EU lobby group, says that 42 per cent of its national federations are dissatisfied with the implementation of their RRF-funded economic recovery plans....
...“[PBMs] are acutely aware of their situation: everybody in the world hates them and they are looking for friends,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, a right-leaning think-tank...
...The problems across the dollar store sector are a reminder that lower income Americans are suffering disproportionately post-pandemic. pan.yuk@ft.com...
...We would assume that Elon Musk’s US national security clearance is higher than that of the typical American CEO due to his control of SpaceX and the range of missions it conducts with NASA, Space Force and...
...American Express shares are close to record highs, up 40 per cent over the past year....
...Merchants are currently able to charge an extra fee for consumers who use American Express cards, but Visa and Mastercard have blocked sellers from doing so for their users....
...American Express Global Business Travel has agreed to buy rival CWT for $570mn in a bet on the continued recovery of business travel....
...Even credit card companies are jumping in, with American Express offering $250 to new current account customers....
...But among the biggest contributors to Berkshire’s performance are stakes in a stable of blue-chip companies including Apple, Coca-Cola and American Express....
...In 2022, a third of American teens said they were using at least one of YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook “almost constantly”....
...There are highlife album sleeves and modest artefacts from early pan-African congresses alongside the mix of epic and everyday architectures....
...In this year’s shareholder letter, Buffett discussed Berkshire’s ongoing winnings from American Express and Coca-Cola, both big blue-chip bets made in the 1990s....
...They include Olson and Kenneth Chenault, the former head of American Express, which Berkshire has invested in for years....
...Here is a good, colourful guide by Climate Action Network Europe, published in 2019, which classified pan-European party groups as either “defenders”, “delayers” or “dinosaurs” on climate change and broke...
...This means that pan-European supermarket chains have to spend thousands of euros on separate production lines for those countries....
...My teenage daughter thought of Jeffrey Dahmer, the American serial killer who has been recently introduced to a new generation via a Netflix drama series....
...Pan Kwan YukLex writer...
...I want communication between the rest of us: the Chinese Americans, Nigerian Americans, Mexican Americans....
...But that figure that is vastly outstripped by the weekly revenues of big American tech corporations....
...Citizens Financial, Synchrony Bank, American Express and Capital One are among those that are peddling accounts that pay out annual percentage yields of 3.5 per cent and above....
...“In the early days, people underestimated ‘Bayo’,” said Kenneth Chenault, former CEO of American Express, and a close friend of Ogunlesi since both were at Harvard Law School....
...EUniverse The EU is pushing to create its own metaverse — or metaverses — to rival American tech giants, writes Javier Espinoza....
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