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...Stan Zlotsky, of Morgan Stanley, on Zendesk October 2020 call....
...Two scoops to start: First, Morgan Stanley has hit bankers with financial penalties running up to more than $1mn per employee for conducting official business on WhatsApp and other messaging platforms....
...Back to sellside, and Morgan Stanley’s gone negative on Next....
...Catching up with Morgan Stanley’s former key man Colm Kelleher eschewed personal interviews for his 30 years at Morgan Stanley....
...Robert Shrimsley imagines how past royals, including Richard III or Henry II, would have responded to a BBC Newsnight grilling....
...This recently rediscovered “Bust of Peace” was carved in 1814 for Canova’s earliest British patron and friend, John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor....
...Other friends included Jean-Louis Beffa, the former boss of Saint-Gobain, and Jean-Marie Messier, the former head of Vivendi, according to Le Monde....
...The barons had to repeatedly win wars against the monarchy over the course of centuries to establish the supremacy of Parliament....
...Under the patronage of Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann had already ploughed great boulevards through the medieval streets and begun to transform the French capital into a grand design of rational engineering...
...Under Basel III regulations, the banks have to disclose some detail about what higher interest rates would do to their businesses....
...The Life of Louis XVI, by John Hardman, Yale, RRP£25/$40 A lifetime’s learning and love for 18th-century French history elevate Hardman’s biography into the fullest, most convincing portrait of Louis XVI...
...“In 1947,” recalled Gore Vidal, “when Marlon Brando appeared on stage [as Stanley Kowalski] in a torn sweaty T-shirt, there was an earthquake.”...
...He was created a life peer earlier this year, taking the title Baron Richards of Herstmonceux....
...Media excitement over the birth of Prince George Alexander Louis, third in line to the British throne, has partly effaced memories of another royal story that came to light this year....
...The Financial Times has spoken to top brokers including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, all of which confirmed they were preparing to price in increases to the cost of funding...
...Louis Lebedin, global co-head of prime brokerage at JPMorgan, says: “We are having regular in-depth meetings with clients and the common theme is the impact of the new regulatory regime on financing and...
...Its hero is an insurance investigator building a case against a sinister baron, and the case incorporates kidnapping, acid poisoning, murder, a mesmerist and, of course, a rich uncle’s will....
...Another despot, Catherine II, who became empress after having her husband Peter III murdered, swept the next wave of western enlightenment into Russia....
...He is also now a newspaper baron, having bought France’s leading business newspaper, Les Echos, from Pearson, owner of the FT....
...A Life of Picasso: Volume III: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932 By John Richardson Jonathan Cape £30, 555 pages FT bookshop price: £24 Gossipy, profound, insightful and non-judgmental, Richardson is terrific...
...Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 52, Baron Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, Viscount Belgrave and Marquess of Westminster, heads a family that dates back to William the Conqueror's day....
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