Hints and tips:
...Fanjul, oil baron Harold Hamm, casino titans Steve Wynn and Phil Ruffin, former commerce department secretary Wilbur Ross, conservative mega donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer, and Key Square Group founder Scott...
...Arriving at a remote village perched above the Amalfi Coast with a half-empty suitcase and a blank cheque, Ripley (Scott) engineers a “chance” encounter with the idle, elusive Dickie (Flynn)....
...“We must declare point-blank that nobody can make head or tail of anything in this world,” wrote Anton Chekhov in a letter in 1888....
...Stablecoin operator Circle has blamed the US securities regulator for the failure of its $9bn plans to go public through a blank-cheque company....
...Except that the clue for 12 across is blank....
...How Greenhill’s Scott Bok scored a $78mn payday Know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, sang the crooner Kenny Rogers. Scott Bok knows this rule of thumb well....
...From a high of nearly $31 shortly after it went public via a blank cheque merger last summer, it fell to a low of around $3.50 last month....
...On Friday, DeSantis told Carlson: “My critique of the DC foreign policy elite is that they are doing a blank cheque policy without telling us when we will have achieved our objective.”...
...Stablecoin group Circle has ditched plans to go public in a $9bn deal through a blank-cheque company chaired by former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond, underlining how successive crises have hit the...
...And one smart listen: The FT’s Scott Chipolina explains why Binance has struggled to capitalise on the collapse of crypto empire FTX on the latest episode of Behind the Money....
...Steve Cavanagh has cornered the market in British iterations of the John Grisham/Scott Turow-style legal thriller, with razor-sharp dialogue a speciality....
...“It’s more of a blank cheque,” Zhao said after committing $500mn to Musk’s deal....
...“I’ll try to take them to places that will fill in the blanks of their life,” he says, almost mystically. “You’re a fucking artist,” says Stewart, admiringly. “A pizza artist.”...
...“It’s more of a blank cheque,” Zhao told the Financial Times. “After the investment . . . Elon will figure out what he wants to do, and we’ll be supportive of that.”...
...Premium subscribers can sign up to a new weekly email written by digital assets correspondent Scott Chipolina and sent every Friday. Register here...
...After raising $288m from investors, blank-cheque company 890 Fifth Avenue Partners announced its merger with BuzzFeed in June....
...Trump hired Scott St John, a former game show producer, to run the streaming service....
...Smart reads Insufficient funds As BuzzFeed made its blank-cheque debut last week, former staffers were ready to unleash the shares they’d been sitting on for years....
...There is a large cast of guest stars, including Jay-Z, Travis Scott and The Weeknd....
...The company, recently valued at $2.3bn, is poised to merge with a blank-cheque company in early 2022....
...However, despite short-term disruption, chief executive Scott Kirby remained confident that long-term forecasts would hold....
...Incoming chiefs Scott Nuttall and Joe Bae are set to take over a far bigger brief than merely running one of the biggest buyout funds on Wall Street....
...Its latest report takes aim at DraftKings, the golden goose of the blank-cheque boom....
...Latham & Watkins has hired three partners to join its new office in Austin, Texas: Samer Zabaneh and Jenifer Smith from DLA Piper, and Scott Craig from Wilson Sonsini....
...Smart reads Between a Spac and a hard place BuzzFeed chief Jonah Peretti orchestrated a complex blank-cheque deal to bring the media group public and achieve profitability....
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