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...France’s market regulator last month levied a €75mn fine against H2O and banned its founder Bruno Crastes from managing funds or an investment company for five years, as punishment for “serious” rule breaches...
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...France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers levied a record €75mn fine against H2O earlier this year as punishment for “serious” rule breaches related to the illiquid investments, while banning its founder Bruno...
...“There is still no indication of how [H2O’s founders] Bruno Crastes and Vincent Chailley have ever tried to compel Lars Windhorst to pay what he owes to the funds,” the lawyer told the FT....
...This astonishing episode is just one of many in a must-read cover story for FTWeekend Magazine by my colleagues Cynthia O’Murchu and Robert Smith....
...The Autorité des Marchés Financiers levied a record €75mn fine against H2O last year as punishment for “serious” rule breaches related to the illiquid investments while banning the firm’s co-founder Bruno...
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...That was before DD’s Robert Smith and FT investigative journalist Cynthia O’Murchu exposed that H2O had poured nearly €1.5bn into Windhorst’s network of rickety ventures back in 2019....
...French regulators imposed a record fine on H2O in January in relation to rule breaches around its Windhorst-linked investments, while banning the firm’s co-founder Bruno Crastes from managing investment...
...“And whatever you think about Bruno, it’s clear he’s still very good at what he does.”...
...French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said the country’s budget deficit for 2023 would be “significantly” above target and that further spending cuts would be needed....
...France’s Bruno Le Maire and Germany’s Robert Habeck are due to hold talks with White House officials on Tuesday to underscore EU concerns about President Joe Biden’s landmark climate legislation, the Inflation...
...Smart reads The brotherhood The gripping tale of the destructive relationship between German financier Lars Windhorst and H20 fund manager Bruno Crastes — a must-read from FT Magazine....
...“Bruno Le Maire [French finance minister] will not allow them to default” on suppliers, said one Casino bondholder....
...Like Maria Grazia Chiuri at Dior, she produces collections that critics dislike but clients adore — sales last year climbed another 17 per cent to $17.2bn, and Chanel president Bruno Pavlovsky often points...
...French regulators have imposed a record €75mn fine on asset manager H2O and banned its co-founder Bruno Crastes from the industry for five years over investments in illiquid debt linked to controversial...
...made in 2019, months before the Financial Times exposed the scale of H2O’s exposure to Windhorst, underscores the close relationship that blossomed between the German financier and H2O’s chief executive Bruno...
...Bruno Le Maire, France’s economy minister, said he and his German counterpart Robert Habeck had achieved “substantive progress” in their talks in Washington and won “assurances” that the US would seek to...
...The Autorité des Marchés Financiers on Friday recommended a record €75mn fine for H2O and a 10-year ban from the investment industry for its chief executive Bruno Crastes, for what it described as “grave...
...Société Générale has promoted Carl Bassili and Bruno Magnouat to co-heads of investment banking, based in Paris....
...In a joint paper, German economy minister Robert Habeck and French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said it was in the US and EU’s mutual interest to “swiftly find common ground” in the stand-off over the...
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...Last month French economy minister Bruno Le Maire and his German counterpart Robert Habeck visited Washington to convey European concerns that the US’s legislation could usher in a subsidy war....
...Alongside a €75mn fine for H2O, an official from the AMF also recommended banning Bruno Crastes, the firm’s co-founder and chief executive, from managing funds....
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