Hints and tips:
...Smooth-talking former watermelon farmer Lex Greensill, who enlisted ex-UK prime minister David Cameron as an adviser, used the money in the funds to buy so-called receivables, a form of corporate invoice...
...Funders invest in a portfolio of cases and might cover the costs of lawyers and expert evidence, and arrange insurance products....
...But Texas is working quickly to wipe away its bad reputation as a venue for commercial disputes....
...of Public Health Aids Initiative and consulting for Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz....
...Engi bought the 92-hectare Broadridge Farm in 2019 and soon after co-created Dayshul Brake with her neighbours, farmer Olly Walker and forester Val Green....
...solar-powered irrigation to Rwandan farmers....
...of energy company boycott in ESG clampdown (FT)...
...The group was deep in the mountains to gather evidence in a high-stakes lawsuit brought by a Peruvian farmer, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, against RWE, Germany’s largest utility company....
...By bundling bank finance and farmers’ purchases, such as drought-resistant seeds, with insurance, they were able to increase financial support for farmers while reducing their level of risk....
...Richard Walker of Iceland this week dismissed the government’s response as a “short-term sticking plaster”....
...“Practically all are made in America between the ’20s and ’50s, advertising mostly nightclubs but also clothing stores, insurance companies, garages…” he says....
...They underpin large swaths of US economic activity, in particular small businesses and farmers, in many parts of the US....
...This dip reflects intensifying competition as production costs fall, said Julie Lerner, chief executive of PanXchange....
...The availability of government-backed crop insurance and a separate bill to aid farmers hit by adverse weather affected what they decided to plant, or whether to plant at all....
...Meanwhile, Apple is under fire for allowing Mr Trump to get away with campaigning boosterism on a visit to a company facility in Texas on Wednesday....
...The present crisis shows how much we need it as a collective insurance against protectionism, in particular for developing countries. How would you rate the past five years of EU trade policy?...
...threatened to withdraw a £109bn contract to manage money for its customers, which led to a legal dispute between the two companies; and SLA sold its insurance book to Phoenix in a £3.2bn deal....
...over chronically low pay and the declining quality of health insurance....
...We met vicars and dog-walkers and shopkeepers, happy to gossip about their little part of this great city....
...Partly as a result, the Tesla revolution is fragile. Elon Musk’s company is lossmaking again, even though it mostly sells expensive cars to rich US buyers....
...A study by insurance company Sun Life found that the average cost of a basic burial in the UK increased 70 per cent between 2008 and 2018, to almost £4,800....
...Scott Walker ejected as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, a shortlived Republican presidential candidate in 2016, has lost his battle to be reelected as governor of Wisconsin....
...(BMJ) India's forgotten elderly One in five Indians will be 60 or older by 2050 but structures such as pensions and health insurance are rare....
...Shepard was born Samuel Rogers in Illinois to a father who was a teacher and farmer before serving in the US air force as a bomber pilot, and a Chicago-born teacher mother....
...Emergency services are using this to respond to fires in remote regions while insurance companies use it to check disaster claims....
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