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...US hedge fund Whitebox Advisors, UK fund City of London Investment Management and Seoul-based fund Anda Asset Management submitted their proposals on Friday ahead of Samsung C&T’s annual meeting in March...
...Additional reporting by Akila Quinio, Stephen Morris, Robert Smith and Euan Healy...
...A senior Nomura banker has been banned from leaving mainland China, a move connected to a long-running investigation into the country’s top tech dealmaker Bao Fan, according to people familiar with the matter...
...“The prospect of a Trump presidency is a lot more remote than voters feeling the pinch right now,” says Shulman from Beacon Policy Advisors....
...“American history teems with situations where the opposing party passionately contended that the president and his closest advisors were guilty of criminal behaviour in carrying out their official duties...
...Glenn Hubbard: The talks on raising the debt ceiling could get ugly but they don’t have to, writes the professor of economics and finance at Columbia University....
...Thousands of senior bankers have a portion of their bonuses linked to the securities....
...Thomas Simons, senior economist at Jefferies, said Fed officials “have to be alarmed that there hasn’t been any material slowing here”....
...Barclays is planning to cut about 50 senior dealmakers, Financial News reports....
...BNP Paribas has appointed 10 bankers to senior roles including Wells Fargo’s Vanessa Dager to lead M&A in North America....
...Ardian has also had to improve on an internal culture where senior male executives have faced scrutiny for their behaviour towards other employees....
...The Relocation Man Award Winner: Chris Smith, NeoGenomics When NeoGenomics, a loss-making Florida-based cancer drugs testing company, announced its new chief executive Chris Smith in June last year, it...
...Additional reporting by Brooke Masters in New York, and James Politi and Colby Smith in Washington This article has been amended to reflect that the reference to Europe’s handling of the failure of small...
...According to a report by Theta Global Advisors, an accounting consultancy, 29 per cent of workers say they are actively looking for another job with higher pay....
...And one more thing: The Swiss government has cut bonuses for about 1,000 senior bankers at Credit Suisse....
...Smith has blamed the end of “easy money” and warned too much monetary tightening could lead to recession....
...The merger announced on Wednesday is aimed at creating a mega platform in private credit just as rising interest rates have made senior loans with floating rates increasingly attractive....
...For Sarah House, senior economist at Wells Fargo, a 0.75 percentage point interest rate rise is now seen as a “floor rather than the ceiling of what they might do in July”....
...Rolls-Royce has hired BP veteran Nicola Grady-Smith as chief transformation officer....
...Freshfields’ former global co-chair of M&A Simon Marchant has launched Rosemont Advisors, a management consultancy firm focused on law firms....
...“This was not unintentional,” says Tim Duy, chief US economist at SGH Macro Advisors....
...“The signalling clearly has been very much on the hawkish side for some time, but that has gotten to a feverish pitch in recent days,” said Simona Mocuta, chief economist at State Street Global Advisors....
...When the Federal Reserve voted in 2011 on a draft of a sweeping new rule preventing banks from making certain speculative investments, Sarah Bloom Raskin was the lone dissenter among senior colleagues at...
...While there were bright spots in the latest GDP data, Simona Mocuta, senior economist at State Street Global Advisors, warned they were “misleadingly strong”....
...“The debt ceiling is an X-factor that could muddy the entire December agenda,” said Ben Koltun, director of research at Beacon Policy Advisors....
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