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...Last month, TikTok’s chief executive was grilled by US legislators over national security fears linked to its Chinese ownership....
...Some of the most prominent, like the UK’s Wellcome Trust, have divested and diversified. Ownership by a non-profit can constrain expansion....
...Daunt favours a hands-off approach when it comes to his retail empire, preferring to trust local shop managers to know how to sell books on their high streets....
...Banks are in the trust business. Some actual human being should have intervened in this dystopian corporate farce before it got out of hand....
...It was quite interesting once you started looking at it because the brand ownership would shift....
...The attention may have focused, at the time, on ecommerce giants, in-home entertainers, social media titans and other stewards of seclusion....
...The 83-year-old, who has a net worth of $1.2bn, said he was transferring his family’s ownership to a trust and a non-profit organisation to channel profits to environmental causes....
...“I don’t see how a Chinese-owned TikTok solves that problem . . . and I am sceptical a UK government can ever trust [one].”...
...This can present complex legal challenges, from understanding ownership of the hardware to figuring out how customer data is processed....
...But perhaps the question that protesters should ask themselves is: if they don’t trust Palantir, who would they prefer to handle NHS data instead? A British company that may be less cutting-edge?...
...Bernie Ecclestone, who became a billionaire running Formula One, denied a £400mn fraud allegation in a London court after UK tax authorities investigated his finances and use of overseas trusts....
...The Walton-Penner family is acquiring the team from the Pat Bowlen Trust. Bowlen had controlled the Broncos since 1984....
...The measures used by the super-rich to disguise ownership date back to the Middle Ages, when noblemen fighting wars overseas placed their land in trusts, while retaining rights to use the land and benefiting...
...The BBC reported this week that Moshiri has ties to several offshore trusts that own British properties connected to Usmanov....
...The same goes for those put forward in Vivek Ramaswamy’s Woke Inc: Inside the Social Justice Scam....
...Twitter also needs to build trust, more trust with users....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 12 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...From the outside, this looks like a sensible strategy and shows how a public listing can assist in an orderly shift in ownership. But that doesn’t mean Big Yellow isn’t worth selling....
...FT Alphaville read our colleague George Hammond’s piece on the opaque ownership of Sutton Place with interest, as it spoke directly to something we recently heard from Jay Newman....
...And just you really want transparency to build trust....
...“I didn’t trust him any more,” after Nashville, Cayne told me, and after Spector had decided to invest another $25m of the firm’s capital into the failing hedge funds....
...It was the kind of mistake that results from too much groupthink and analysis paralysis, and a failure to step back and consider how trust might be severed with such a momentous step....
...As with most blank cheque targets, Circle is asking the investor to trust that market adoption of a nascent technology will occur smoothly....
...The Broncos are controlled by the trust of the late Pat Bowlen....
...If only we could fix the ownership issues: is there a crowdfunding campaign for that? Email Jo at jo.ellison@ft.com Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
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