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...Rob Beard, chief legal officer, general counsel and head of global policy at Mastercard, said: “This agreement brings closure to a long-standing dispute by delivering substantial certainty and value to business...
...or outside counsel proceeding with foreclosing on the collateral and/or commencing litigation or similar legal actions)....
...It cites examples of Kassan using the fund to pay for an apartment for his personal driver, and allowing his wife to have a company credit card “so she could shop for extravagant luxury goods”....
...But, of course, there’s a reason why it’s widely called Shitibank; the sprawling, gormless Citi has for a v v v very long time proven adept at blithely ambling onto various rakes around the world....
...Blackstone will combine its insurance and credit businesses into an integrated unit called Blackstone Credit & Insurance, which chief executive Steve Schwarzman says could grow to manage $1tn in the next...
...A special counsel report on Biden’s handling of classified documents, written by a Trump appointee, referred to the president as a “well meaning elderly man with a poor memory”....
...And on the very same day, the credit rating agency Fitch stripped America of its hallowed AAA tag, echoing a similar 2011 move by Standard & Poor’s....
...(Pimco) — The PagerDuty CEO who quoted Martin Luther King in her mass sacking email is v v v sorry....
...It limits credit risk and is available on the exchange.”...
...Slater said that lower valuations now offer “a very attractive entry point for investors”....
...The ethics charter now forms part of Schneider’s essential training for all staff and Wexler credits it as one of the foundations of its award-winning ESG policies....
...Tesla has hired Brandon Ehrhart, the former general counsel of Dish Network, as its new top lawyer....
...Moody’s Investor Service said the talc ruling was a “credit negative” for J&J but would not affect its triple A rating....
...Unsure, he turned to a small coterie of trusted advisers, made up of the company’s chief financial officer, general counsel and head of human resources. Their feedback? “We can afford to wait.”...
...Let us know what you think at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. A programming note: FintechFT will take a one-week break in observance of the Easter holiday. The next issue will be April 25....
...Howard Fischer, a partner at law firm Moses & Singer, is a former Senior Trial Counsel at the US Securities & Exchange Commission....
...carbon credits and renewable energy....
...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...Earlier this year, Stripe hired a new general counsel, Trish Walsh, from Voya Financial, the US retirement plan provider....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...These included credit card terms and conditions, and the process behind fulfilment of mortgages....
...The credit rating agency is hugely influential....
...“India is the fastest-growing credit card market in the entire world right now. Our opportunity is massive.”...
...It has had to raise more than $1bn from its existing investors and tap credit lines from banks to shore up its financial position....
...A fifth have invested in bitcoin at some point, with half of these turning to debt (including credit cards and student loans) to fund it. Why is this dangerous?...
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