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...Nikou — A powerful story. + bonus Robert Smith Whisper it cautiously, but we are arguably living through a new golden age of investigative reporting....
...And Greensill would package all this up into investment products to finance the project....
...Neobanks targeted by scammers Smart reporting from Tim Smith and Amy O’Brien on figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service shows that digital banks are facing soaring fraud rates....
...If you’ve got thoughts about this or a topic that would suit a future installment of the Future of Money, email me at sid.v@ft.com....
...Back in 2019, DD’s Rob Smith and Cynthia O’Murchu from the FT’s investigations desk pored over H2O’s fund filings and made a startling discovery: the firm had well over €1bn invested in illiquid bonds linked...
...The Pope’s guest was Brad Smith, president of the US technology giant Microsoft, who had arrived the previous day in a private jet....
...Tobacco shares fell in Europe on Tuesday morning on reports the Biden administration is considering forcing companies to strip cigarettes of nicotine and banning menthol products in the US....
...Fighter jets such as the F-35, a Lockheed Martin aircraft, rely heavily on rare earths — a group of 17 metallic elements — for critical components such as electrical power systems and magnets....
...Sarah O’Connor looks at Uber’s lobbying efforts to shape any new laws in Europe. 4....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...Then there’s Barclays (overweight): As a reminder, Boohoo sources c40% of its product from the UK, and most of the UK product is from Leicester....
...Al-Hajri is the brother of Sheikha Al-Anoud, the second wife of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar....
...Kana Yosumi, PR & VIP assistant for Paul Smith, and Yassir Al-Refaie, a director at robotics firm Seyo, married in August at Hackney Town Hall, London....
...House of Cards, BoJack Horseman and Orange Is the New Black to brag about until the cavalry — Stranger Things, Narcos et al — arrived....
...break-up (FT Lex) Hudson's Bay secures shareholder approval to become a private company (Reuters) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Kaye Wiggins and Robert Smith in London, Javier Espinoza in...
...Negotiations between A&O, which had revenues of £1.6bn last year, and O’Melveny collapsed because they couldn’t agree on a valuation for the combined business....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...giant changed its search engine algorithm to favour products that are more profitable for the company, despite objections from its lawyers and engineers....
...“Uncertainty around Homebase, Poundworld et al presents opportunity for B&M from both a property and a capacity withdrawal perspective....
...company Knize....
...Business investment will take a hit but it may not happen until the cost to companies of Brexit becomes a reality....
...company bosses is an unlikely beach read....
...Williamson and Gomme et al. suggest as much. While investment is lower than before the crisis in Europe, that is not true in the US....
...Neil O’Sullivan is deputy editor of FT Life & Arts....
...The maker revolution reveals a desire for products to be the way we want them, not necessarily the way companies want to build them....
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