Hints and tips:
...“In some markets, Telegram is one of the few remaining free platforms where people can express themselves,” Durov says....
...There will also be feints and deceptions to keep the Russians guessing — like the excited reports this week of a Ukrainian “beachhead” on the left bank of the Dnipro river....
...It’s the title of a quite brilliant book on east-central Europe since the second world war by the American scholar Joseph Rothschild....
...The US was and remains the favourite target of carders because of the refusal of American banks and card issuers to invest in chip-and-pin technology, which European banks introduced early on as a very effective...
...In her forthcoming book Hybrid Warriors (which I shall review soon for the FT), the Russian-American author Anna Arutunyan makes a similar observation....
...Its wines, if well made, can last for decades and have an affinity with top quality oak, both American and French....
...Lex opines on American Express’ loan-loss reserves, and argues that investors should not take fright....
...Good morning and welcome to Europe Express....
...American Express has appointed former US Federal Trade Commission chair Deborah Platt Majoras to its board....
...Last week I spoke with former American Express executive Andrew Jamison about his company Extend, which looks to help traditional banks offer modern payment technology to commercial clients through APIs....
...I see a market dominated by American Express and the legacy banks. Most companies are yet to implement the next generation systems which we provide. There’s still so much business to capture....
...Traditional payments companies like Mastercard, and American Express will probably play a central role as the gateways to commerce on platforms like Meta and Roblox, according to Ghose....
...It also urges countries to set up “legal pathways” for people from Latin American and the Caribbean to reach the wealthier north....
...Jordan, who took over as chief executive in 2019, has previously worked at American Express and RailsBank. What inspired the formation of Bink and what problems does it solve?...
...Travel spending by big US companies was “well over 50 per cent” of pre-pandemic levels in March, the chief financial officer of American Express told the FT last week....
...That he probably doesn't have any foreign assets, you know You mean there's not a bank account saying V Putin, the Kremlin. Yeah. But nonetheless, I suppose......
...Prometheon, which owed about £231m to its lenders including Indian banks, had only £1,900 in its bank account....
...The other branchless banks that have reached significant scale also have strength in asset-gathering: they are the card companies like Discover, American Express and Synchronicity Financial....
...Seasonal appeal Investors v poachers Wildlife conservation finance, for decades the preserve of wealthy donors and governments, is now attracting institutional investors....
...Robert Zoellick, the former World Bank president, argued that there would be “fumbling fragmentation”; Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief investment officer, said “a V-shaped recovery is on track”; and...
...(FT) Copyright special: France v Google France is looking to win the war of words with Google....
...(FT) Podcast of the day Behind the Money When Carlyle Group executives signed an agreement with American Express Global Business Travel in December they imagined it would be one of the private equity firm...
...Leysen told me that like others — including American Express and KBC Bank (which also operated in Congo) — the company had no say in its content....
...Metro Bank goes onto the “buy” list at Investec. Analyst Ian Gordon reckons it’s now cheap enough to offset the fact that it’s Metro Bank....
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