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...Job moves Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired former Tesco boss Sir Dave Lewis as an operating adviser....
...They transport rice through a waterway system. Do you ever see them telling us [in advance] that they are going to dig that? No, they never tell us,” Sok Touch told state-aligned media in January....
...Financial markets may have hit the buffers last year, but this did make one type of investment a lot more popular: buffered exchange traded funds....
...Email me your thoughts at sid.v@ft.com. Latest news Amy Kazmin in Rome has a fascinating piece on why Giorgia Meloni is pushing back on Italy’s shift to digital payments....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 14 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...But those US executives now have a powerful financial incentive to pay attention....
...Only 60 per cent of workers in south-east Asia are estimated to have bank accounts, Naik said, but ecommerce in the region is growing quickly as more consumers gain access to the financial system....
...Let us know what you think at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. A programming note: FintechFT will take a one-week break in observance of the Easter holiday. The next issue will be April 25....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 8, 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...It won’t be without political and financial hang-ups, The City reports....
...Olaf Scholz said the affair had revealed that Germany’s system of financial regulation “needs to be reorganised”. 2....
...Corn and rice farmers burn off residue....
...You don’t have to be Thomas Piketty to recognise that inequality poses a significant risk to the global system as it stands....
...He was previously chief financial officer of German braking systems manufacturer Knorr-Bremse....
...Encouraged by the tax system, and perhaps with an eye on their own pay, corporate leaders were quick to embrace the trend....
...For financial inclusion, the government has got to pay you in this [currency], you’ve got to receive it as an instrument you can understand, and you have to be able to use it to buy rice and cycles....
...An overly indebted financial system will weigh on long-term growth prospects. It also reinforces the feedback loop between central banks and asset prices....
...The Chinese government has long held a tight grip on the country’s financial system, opening up to trade but closing out competition to its national businesses from foreign institutions....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...Is Lockheed Martin a ‘bad’ company because it makes weapons that kill, or a ‘good’ company because it makes missile defence systems?...
...“We welcome the chance to put money out any place where we think we understand and sort of trust the system.”...
...There are only sustainable systems,” he says. “People don’t think in terms of systems but that’s the only way.”...
...South Korea’s chaebols were the bedrock of that country’s economic miracle but they have also repeatedly rattled the financial system and figured in several scandals, including one that, last year, resulted...
...Last year was exceptional for Europe Inc in terms of growth, profitability and business expectations....
...The US public pension fund Calstrs last year insisted two new directors be added — Ebony Media chief executive, Linda Johnson Rice, and 21st Century Fox head, James Murdoch....
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