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...Chemaf was founded in 2001 by Virji, who used to run a cash-and-carry business in the UK and owns a pharmaceutical export business....
...And South Africa — a late entrant to the group, which was simply BRIC when Lord Jim O’Neill coined the acronym in 2001 — looks increasingly like an economic basket case....
...Year of Wonders (2001) was based on the story of Eyam, in England’s Peak District, whose inhabitants elected to quarantine themselves when the black death struck in 1666....
...Companies pay syndicate banks to find the best price to sell....
...It’s a route to a kind of immortality: 12 Robert Ludlum novels were published after his death in 2001, some written by Eric van Lustbader....
...Galileo, the world’s most valuable stallion, won the Derby in 2001, and is an active sire at the Coolmore Stud in County Tipperary....
...The new structure, say some people in the market, enabled Lloyd’s to survive the scale of the claims that came in after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. By that stage, Rowland had left Lloyd’s....
...We are being guided by the last downturn in 2001-03 when, peak to trough, Airbus/Boeing deliveries fell by 30%....
...But it has become a highly lucrative income stream for Italy’s organised-crime syndicates....
...“In 2001, Vietnam’s seafood imports were worth $25m but in 2016, they were worth over $5bn,” Mr Harkell said. “No other country’s seafood imports have grown so fast,” he added....
...Boas, former managing director of investment bank SG Warburg, and his wife founded their salon in November 2001 after their youngest son died....
...Inputs into “The Machine” include round size, syndicate partners, past investors, industry sector and the delta between prior valuation and current valuation....
...“You could be in a syndicate room until one or two in the morning and you have to get an assignment in the next day, you start to see people’s true colours....
...Naspers’ investment of $32m in Tencent in 2001, now worth $175bn, powered its rise from a publisher and pay-TV operator to Africa’s biggest company by market capitalisation....
...Even so, by 2001 both companies had failed, brought down by a lack of the one ingredient that counts most in finance: trust....
...On Monday, Unilever issued €1.9bn of bonds in its largest public debt sale since May 2001, when it offered €2bn of three- and five-year bonds....
...Adam Bothamley, head of debt syndicate for HSBC, said the deal came after inquiries from investors suggested demand existed....
...More than a decade had passed since Trump signed up to the project in 2001, alongside Ritz-Carlton and a little-known developer called Leib Waldman....
...GE’s deal is the fourth largest euro corporate bond sale ever, tied with an €8bn deal from Volkswagen in March and a deal from Deutsche Telekom in 2001....
...Adam Bothamley, head of debt syndicate for HSBC, one of the banks that worked on the deal, said it came in response to “reverse inquiries”, where investors approach the issuer with a proposal that will meet...
...While Mr Goto was a notorious boss in Japan, he attracted attention in the US after it emerged that he was given a liver transplant at a California hospital in 2001 despite being reportedly on a list of...
...There was rapid growth in funding by angel investors, private individuals who invest their own capital either alone or part of a syndicate....
...Resentment of Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese grew during Dutch colonial rule, when they were given monopolies over various commodities and met the colony’s banking needs through lending syndicates....
...The last time it happened was in 2001 when Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, which still has more than $110m in back debts, opted not to pay the fund....
...“Sixty per cent of all art claims are works in transit, in some size, shape or form,” says Rupert Onslow, an art underwriter at The Channel Syndicate, a specialist insurer at Lloyd’s....
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