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...eating a grapefruit a day since about 45 years ago,” says the European Central Bank president, flashing a bright smile that sets off her cropped silver bob, white silk blouse, monochrome floral scarf and pearl...
...He refers to Harry Styles’s pearls and Paul Mescal’s character’s silver chain in Normal People as fashion influences....
...Arnold also incorporated pieces made from scratch, including a mother-of-pearl bird....
...In Spain, the 210 staff of Majórica were recently told that the 130-year-old company was filing for insolvency due to a sharp drop in sales of its artificial pearls during the pandemic....
...Apart from magnolias, my stars of the moment are two bushes of what has become marketed as the “pearl bush”....
...Mapplethorpe recasts Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hypermasculine physique as a locus for homoerotic desire....
...The plan has been viewed as a continuation of the strategy of his predecessor, Stuart Gulliver, with a focus on strengthening its business in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta in southern China, a so-called...
...Much of the eight-point strategic plan presented by Mr Flint represents continuity from the “pivot to Asia” strategy of his predecessor, Stuart Gulliver, including plans to expand in Hong Kong and the Pearl...
...The new boss said he would continue to redeploy capital from areas with low return on equity to more promising ones, notably in its main profit engine of Hong Kong and in China’s fast-growing Pearl River...
...Some of the capital tied up in these assets has been shifted to more profitable areas such as the industrialised Pearl River Delta region of China. Yet investors say there is more to do....
...But pushing the Pearl River Delta, as the region is also known, to the next level will require much more complicated, and potentially risky, reforms....
...And the bank said its Pearl River Delta business increased both the number of retail and wealth management clients and its mortgage book by more than 50 per cent last year....
...slowdown in Asian economic growth disrupted Mr Gulliver’s new “pivot to Asia” strategy that was launched in 2015 to cut poorly performing businesses and reinvest in more promising areas, such as China’s Pearl...
...‘Ruby’ by Joanna Hardy is available on October 12, published by Thames & Hudson, £75, thamesandhudson.com Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos...
...As a result, Mr Gulliver says its plan to hire 4,000 people in the Pearl River Delta region over three to five years had been delayed by the slowdown....
...Additional reporting by Martin Arnold...
...The bank reaffirmed a commitment to its “pivot to Asia” strategy, designed to redeploy about a sixth of its $2.5tn balance sheet capacity into faster growing markets in Asia and the Pearl River Delta region...
...presented investors with a “pivot to Asia” strategy in June, promising to shrink poorly performing operations in Europe and the Americas while redeploying resources to more promising markets, in particular the Pearl...
...“There is always an abandoned pearl in any market with bubbles,” said the 48-year-old Mr Guo. “In a market full of panic sentiment, even more such opportunities are hidden.”...
...“A number of people came away with the impression that we were trying to jam $290bn of risk-weighted assets into the Pearl River Delta,” he told analysts....
...Gulliver, chief executive, promised a “pivot to Asia” strategy, shrinking poorly performing operations in Europe and the Americas while redeploying resources to more promising markets, in particular the Pearl...
...Finally he explained the opportunity presented by the expected rapid growth of Asian economies, and in particular the Pearl River Delta region of southern China....
...Mr Gulliver promised a “pivot to Asia” strategy, shrinking poorly performing operations in Europe and the Americas while redeploying resources to more promising markets, in particular the Pearl River Delta...
...“I cannot possibly allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such oriental lavishness,” he scolded....
...“Too many banks had dreams of a string of pearls, but they didn’t really make much of a necklace,” says Huw van Steenis, banking analyst at Morgan Stanley....
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