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...“We do chase the very high-profile individuals, the Russians, the Chinese,” Watkinson adds. “And sometimes we chase them all over the world.”...
...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p. 39)....
...“This is the closest to reality I’ve seen,” Bilal Hafeez, a former research analyst at JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Nomura told the FT’s Henry Mance. Catch up with the full interview here....
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...It is like the old monopoly phone companies saying to customers, ‘Well, you can choose not to have a phone’ – it is a necessary part of business,’” said Douglas Kantor, council to the National Association...
...(FT) Banking with Amazon Amazon is discussing a potential partnership to offer its customers bank accounts through JPMorgan Chase, in a deal that could unite America’s largest bank with its biggest ecommerce...
...The Clearing House, a trade association that represents banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America, put out a report on Thursday recommending a much stronger role for the US Treasury’s...
...He joins from UBS, where he was head of banks for the Americas. Before UBS Krumpelman worked at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase....
...The UK’s biggest banks, for example, liaise regularly into a tight-knit information-sharing circle with GCHQ and the Bank of England....
...“There is particular uncertainty about the outlook for China, continental Europe and the USA,” said Tim Besley, another former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee and professor of economics...
...From a near standing start in 2009, upmarket pawnbrokers now account for £100m of the UK’s £1bn pawnbroking market, according to the National Pawnbrokers Association....
...JPMorgan Chase is in talks to pay at least $800m to settle with securities and bank regulators over the $6bn “London whale” trading loss, but faces additional fines from US derivatives regulators not part...
...Mae and $470 million to Freddie Mac to resolve claims related to securities sold to the companies between 2004 and 2007. ” (Reuters) Meanwhile Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and RBS are being pressed for...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“A V-shaped recovery is already in place,” noted Sin Beng Ong, economist at JPMorgan in Singapore....
...Homebuilder stocks were barely given a boost by a rise in the National Association of Home Builders confidence index to 21, its highest level since May 2010, from a revised 19 in November....
...ECONOMICS Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Profile Books, RRP£25 This is a bold, ambitious, fascinating book....
...JPMorgan’s $20bn bridge loan to fund AT&T’s purchase of T-Mobile USA was the biggest fee earner in the quarter for loans. Additional reporting by Suzanne Kapner in New York...
...The dealers include: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Nomura and UBS....
...The second is that the purpose of a national economy is to outperform its peers....
...A judge in Regina v....
...that Sinn Féin boycotted the ceremony attended by former paramilitaries of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association....
...The move is intended to give servicers more time to help borrowers avoid losing their homes over Christmas and echoes similar foreclosure moratoriums announced by banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup...
...In recent weeks, banks such as Citigroup and JPMorgan have unveiled their own separate plans to rework mortgage loans and help homeowners....
...Banks and insurers own most of the $36bn in preferred stock in Fannie and Freddie, and JPMorgan’s move will raise pressure on other holders to make similar writedowns....
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