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...Hedge funds and asset managers can buy those instruments, and trade them in Macau — a place better known for casinos than financial services....
...while Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation has a partnership with Jefferies Financial Group....
...It is hard to keep track of all of Walmart’s NGO alliances....
...“Overlapping or unclear responsibilities between the Royal Government of Cambodia and relevant agencies, and resource, manpower and financial constraints lead to incomplete and ineffective enforcement of...
...That in turn is one part of an ongoing liberalisation of the country’s closely controlled financial services industry....
...Negative rates may be necessary to help support the flow of credit to non-financial corporations. But much of the heavy lifting will have to be done by fiscal policy....
...Charles Parton is a senior associate fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank, and an adviser to the UK House of Commons select committee on foreign affairs....
...Last month he scored a victory, after the Financial Services Commission of Ontario cracked down on four brokerages that raised private funds for a condo and townhouse developer known as Fortress Real Developments...
...For most of the past 750 years the Duchy of Lancaster has accumulated its wealth through a combination of legacy, alliance and confiscation....
...Internal documents from that office, seen by the Financial Times, reveal details of the financial secrecy services that were on offer, just 300 metres from the Bank of England, to the rich, the powerful...
...Andrew Mountford, professor, Royal Holloway The key issue, which is much analysed in academia, is how nation states can react to the presence of increasingly powerful multinational corporations who are...
...“Seeing the whole Earth as a single entity is not new,” says Martin Rees, Britain’s astronomer royal. “But what is happening now is that we are monitoring it on a daily basis at high resolution....
...Ablyazov and his associates say Wahid gave them the hard sell. He portrayed Arcanum as “some sort of super service that has super resources at their disposal”, Ablyazov remembers....
...She has advised on all aspects of transactions across intellectual property, technology and financial services....
...But the brunt of public resentment has fallen on Sir Philip, who made his first billion by buying BHS and was knighted a decade ago for services to the retail sector....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...Royal Mail (Delivery Services) 121. Mattel (Consumer Goods) 122. Ocado (Retail) 123. Airbus (Aerospace) 124. Garmin (Consumer Goods) 125. Whitbread (Restaurant) 126. IAG (Travel & Tourism) 127....
...The bank benefited from the financial crisis in that it was able to acquire struggling lenders — such as Alliance & Leicester — cheaply....
...But that perception has changed among Japanese companies,” says Nobuhiko Hibara, associate professor of finance at Waseda Business School....
...Andrea Berger, a North Korea expert at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank, says: “Office 39 is extremely important. It’s generally regarded as the regime slush fund.”...
...Rowe Price Associates, a fund manager. The company, which creates products to protect smartphones from cyberattacks, will use the money to target large corporations....
...* EH Booth & Co * Lubrizol Corporation * Speedy Services Responsible Business of the Year Award For large businesses that have adapted their strategies so that their products, services and employees...
...China Investment Corporation, the country’s $410bn sovereign wealth fund, is rumoured to be in talks to buy a London office park for £800m....
...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...
...FTSE, a business owned by the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times, is less sanguine about the system’s elasticity....
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