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...In Sweden local banks worked together to develop Swish, a domestic digital payments system, which successfully pre-empted the entry of ApplePay....
...In a recent project, the couple covered the dining table at their showroom with 19th-century cut-glass candle holders that snake the tabletop....
...What is left will be a bank more focused on wealth management and its Swiss domestic market....
...England and Wales aren’t commercial priorities compared with the domestic and export markets....
...Instead, governments can issue compulsory licences to domestic manufacturers but must compensate the patent holders. Campaigners were disappointed at the result....
...“I think that this ends the war,” said one of the company’s large, long-term holders. “Since 2018, the relationship between Toshiba and its investors has been based on deep mutual distrust....
...into two or more new domestic entities or other organisations”....
...Forgetting this, in 2003, the Fed sent investors on a yield-seeking quest for alternatives to short-term interest rates of 1 per cent....
...That move, she said, suggested that the government’s quest for “common prosperity” had become its prevailing concern....
...Days later, Chinese regulators ordered Didi’s app to be taken off domestic app stores....
...In response to European objections, they had come back with a revised text spelling out that waivers should be temporary and apply only to diagnostics and therapies specifically related to the Covid pandemic...
...Oaktree maintains its bid was superior but that it was overlooked in favour of domestic buyers. It has vowed to challenge the decision in court....
...As holders of the EU’s rotating presidency, Portugal has put the squeeze on the commission to start raising debt in June so money can start being disbursed over the summer....
...Africa have been leading the charge on pressing for a waiver on the intellectual property rules in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) for Covid-19 vaccines, medicines and diagnostics...
...Most have done so without a plan, much less a domestic consensus, as to who pays when the bill comes....
...Shares in US laboratory testing companies Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corporation of America trade at only a little above their pre-pandemic levels....
...As pressure rises around the world for sufficient rapid high-quality diagnostics, an unlikely company with four employees claimed to have developed a saliva test that takes just 20 seconds to process....
...Both LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics, major testing companies, have launched tests for Covid-19....
...The club has been on a winning streak, sealing victories in all major domestic competitions last season. Once upon a time, it was struggling to make ends meet....
...There is a programme to expand TB GeneXpert diagnostics test equipment for coronavirus. Both cause lethal respiratory tract infections....
...Carlos Abadi is managing director of DecisionBoundaries, LLC, a New York-based international financial advisory firm....
...While insolvency proceedings would not provide any benefits for equity holders, it would force a quicker restructuring of the business, provided there is willing backers to step in....
...As a new decade dawns, the quest for sustainable investment returns is not going to get any easier....
...It was the lack of incentive to distribute what wealth there was to all stake holders equally....
...We have addressed one before: the quest for a “fiscal stabilisation mechanism” for euro member economies....
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