Hints and tips:
...Britain’s cetaphobia, boosted by Thomas Hobbes, persisted into the modern age....
...A Marwyn-backed company — AdvancedAdvT — is in talks to acquire and merge with advertising group M&C Saatchi. Marwyn also has two other companies lined up to raise money after MAC II....
...“I’m looking at humanity and where we got things wrong.”...
...“The banking system, I’m assured, is in a much better position in terms of its balance sheet and its understanding of the liabilities that it is managing.”...
...“It isn’t hugely surprising that there has been market rumour and speculation of M&A in all these names in recent weeks,” he said....
...Similarly, changes to Mifid II would help to encourage more analysts to cover smaller companies....
...He said the Solvency II regime that governed the insurance sector was a key area where reform was needed. “We will [then] be able to allocate more capital to investing in long term infrastructure.”...
...“I’m confident that with our growth plan and the upcoming medium-term fiscal plan — with close co-operation with the bank — our approach will work,” he said....
...The hall is a peach in the ambitious scheme for Houghton Hall attributed to architect Colen Campbell and built by Thomas Ripley in the then deeply fashionable Anglo-Palladian style....
...“I’m still stuck on mimosa,” he says simply....
...helen.thomas@ft.com...
...I’m not the only one to feel this way. Purple is one of the most “divisive” colours on the wheel, according to Joanne Thomas, head of content at Coloro, a branch of trend forecasting agency WGSN....
...I used to wish I could be one (like Queen Elizabeth II, it turns out). Horses make me feel real joy....
...Article II of this convention is unambiguous on the subject....
...I’m just trying to do the right thing for the UK financial services sector.”...
...Bonds have never figured in the popular imagination in the same way as stocks, say, or corporate M&A. There has never been a “meme bond”....
...I’m not really sure why it would. So, finally, for all Labour’s tactical timidity, where does that leave public opinion on Brexit two years on?...
...When Queen Elizabeth II died on Truss’s third day in office, she struggled to find a register equal to the national mood....
...The overhaul of the Solvency II insurance rules is one of the more concrete post-Brexit opportunities, writes Helen Thomas....
...Mifid II and Solvency II have been discussed by I think pretty much every chancellor since we left the EU....
...Money generated from company research — which has been disrupted by the Mifid II reforms — was “resilient”, it said....
...Netflix: game on DD readers are well aware of how hot gaming M&A has been this year. Now, Netflix has logged on....
...Peter is off this week so I’m making my newsletter debut as financial regulation editor. Predictably, the main piece is on the hunt for Brexit dividends in the finreg world....
...Kaiser Wilhelm II had memories of holidaying there, and dispatched German architects to rebuild the port....
...While he predicts further M&A among rival brokers, he said that Cenkos could stand on its own. “We are very undervalued at the moment....
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