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...Mark Hodges, the former chief of Aviva UK and British Gas and current chair of insurer RSA, has been named chair of MAC II — the latest acquisition company in the UK by London-based sponsor Marwyn....
...She thus aligned herself with 200,000 British mothers who had accepted medical and scientific advice to vaccinate their children — the age group most at risk from contracting the terrible, life-long disabling...
...Noble Francis: The fortunes of the UK labour market will depend on the length of the Coronavirus Job Retention (furlough) Scheme and the Self Employment Income Support Scheme, the speed at which consumer...
...Sea Group Sector: technology / HQ: singapore Key stat: Sea’s self-developed global game Free Fire hit a record of more than 80m daily active users in the first quarter of 2020....
...Companies now evidently believe that the reputational risk of not parting ways very publicly with sexual harassers is greater than the risk of a successful defamation suit....
...That has the effect of flattering the banks’ books but shifts the risk of default to insurers such as the state-backed Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation....
...The move means HSBC is no longer at risk of having those charges reopened, which could have put its US licence in peril....
...They’re not an advertising-based platform so as long as a certain number of people are watching, they can equate that to retention, and that’s the name of the game for them . . ....
...But completely self-driving cars could take decades to reach every city, even if the first autonomous vehicles are on the road in some places within a couple of years....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...China’s Hunger Games, John Authers on oil, Brexit and the City European stocks are enjoying solid gains, with Germany’s Dax hitting a record high, helped by a rebound for resources groups as commodities...
...equity fund management unit of French insurer Axa....
...Critics such as Mr Gensler at the CFTC compared the situation with the high-risk business conducted by AIG’s London-run Financial Products division, which triggered the failure of the US insurer in 2008...
...Index tracking investors have the UKLA to thank for the inclusion of the Indian energy group in the FTSE 100....
...Sentiment in Admiral shares also took a boost from news that the Association of British Insurers would work with the City of London Police to set up an anti-fraud unit....
...Fight Global Poverty , by Abhijit V....
...Reprinted by permission of Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group. Back to the top Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global PovertyBy Abhijit V....
...To attain the nirvana of economic equilibrium, the theorem required there to be securities for sale for every possible state of the future – “state securities”....
...A lot of people, including politicians who do not care much one way or the other about the truth of the matter, dismiss this as more self-serving Wall Street claptrap....
...on the massive neoclassical monuments emerging in the capital of one of India’s poorest states....
...“Any firm whose failure would pose a systemic risk must receive especially close supervisory oversight of its risk-taking, risk management and financial condition, and be held to high capital and liquidity...
...Kelly struck lucky by contacting American International Group, the US-based insurer, just as its senior executives in Europe had decided to outsource the very service Powerchex was offering....
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...jokes Robert Prechter of Elliott Wave International, a widely followed group of technical analysts....
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