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...Tasked by his brother with handling some of the state’s most sensitive issues such as the UAE’s Iran and Yemen files and intelligence co-operation with the US, Russia and the UK, the 53-year-old martial...
...Rothschild & Co has named Nasser Al Issa, the former investment chief of Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co, as head of Saudi Arabia while making Britain’s former top civil servant Mark Sedwill...
...In 2000, he co-founded YouGov, the polling group, which would earn his family millions....
...While at Jones Day in the early 1990s, he was embroiled in a dispute over conflict of interest rules in a venture involving Lebanese businessmen and a Saudi bank....
...“In the last crisis they didn’t trust the commission,” says the senior diplomat....
...It is against this background that Hopp et al have raised their heads above the parapet....
...In the busy streets along the banks, glimpses of women in pink, orange and green kitenge-print dresses glowed like sparks in the African dust....
...Documents seen by the Financial Times and extensive interviews with more than a dozen senior figures in the chess world show a co-ordinated global effort by the Russian state, through ambassadors and representatives...
...The FT’s Sam Jones investigates how chess became a pawn in Russia’s power game via a global co-ordinated effort by the Russian state through ambassadors and representatives of the country’s banks and companies...
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
...• Banks and businesses should be required to find out who they’re dealing with, and report it if they come across shell companies or dodgy practices....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...At Thursday’s vote, the ECB president will not be able to count on the support of the two top Germans at the bank — Jens Weidmann, Bundesbank president, and Sabine Lautenschläger, ECB executive board member...
...In particular, it has been at pains to avoid reliance on donations from private individuals in Gulf states – traditionally, the largest source of income for al-Qaeda linked terror groups....
...’s 36 states....
...As Stephen Green et al at Standard Chartered noted: Big banks are well funded through their vast branch networks and their relationships with government and state enterprises....
...Consider this from Standard Chartered’s Stephen Green et al: [Wealth Management Products'] yields tend to move with interbank rates, since WMP funds reflect the banks’ marginal cost of funds....
...Chavan, co-founder of Pratham, an Indian educational non-governmental organisation; William Dutton of the Oxford Internet Institute; Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s technology correspondent; Jeremy Heimans...
...… Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank that Broke Britain, by Ian Fraser, Birlinn, RRP£25 RBS, briefly the biggest bank in the world, was a rogue bank....
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...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...
...For more on the underlying research by Andrei Schleifer et al — see this post from Felix Salmon looking at an earlier version of the paper cited by Turner....
...“BP is interesting now with the price lower by half and I still have trust in BP, I will recommend it to the LIA [the Libyan Investment Authority],” Mr Ghanem told Dow Jones....
...I know you have the ear of the Pope, Obama, Lakshmi et al, but I ask you humbly to let this be strictly “off the record”....
...Joe Quinlan is chief market strategist, US Trust at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He answered readers questions on Monday, October 26. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....
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