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...Frasers Group has appointed four new board members including Sir Jon Thompson, the former head of the UK’s accounting regulator, which engaged in a bitter legal battle with the retailer during his tenure...
...But, of course, there’s a reason why it’s widely called Shitibank; the sprawling, gormless Citi has for a v v v very long time proven adept at blithely ambling onto various rakes around the world....
...Google said the $105mn it is spending for the Thompson Center will help serve a hybrid labour force that works in and out of the office....
...(Pimco) — The PagerDuty CEO who quoted Martin Luther King in her mass sacking email is v v v sorry....
...told to step back from government work (FT) Santander targets dozens more Credit Suisse hires in M&A push (Bloomberg)....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 13, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...It limits credit risk and is available on the exchange.”...
...If the studios cut budgets, it likely will be the smaller shows that get the chop, said Robert Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University....
...Job moves Sir Jon Thompson, head of the UK’s Financial Reporting Council, is in the running to become chair of the High Speed 2 rail project....
...Let us know what you think at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. A programming note: FintechFT will take a one-week break in observance of the Easter holiday. The next issue will be April 25....
...Citi is another bank that had close links to Lex Greensill; it tried to help Greensill raise $1bn in capital months before the company collapsed and its former UK chief executive Maurice Thompson chaired...
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...It has had to raise more than $1bn from its existing investors and tap credit lines from banks to shore up its financial position....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...“Our analysis suggests that financial crisis fears account for much of the gloom,” said Jamie Thompson, the poll’s lead economist....
...Royal Mail appointed former Ocado executive Simon Thompson as its new UK chief....
...Credit markets also tallied losses, with a closely followed fund that buys junk bonds, known by its ticker HYG, declining 0.7 per cent....
...And true enough, a V-shaped recovery is expected in earnings over the next four quarters when looking at what analysts expect for the S&P 500....
...“I would say that, as a team, we've pretty well discounted a uniform V-shaped recovery. The question is, is it U-shaped, is it W-shaped or parts of it L-shaped?”...
...Whitman spent more than a decade at Blackstone’s credit unit before leaving at the end of last year....
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...Lentz joins from Thompson & Knight. Latham & Watkins has hired Meghan Cocci as a partner in the law firm’s corporate department....
...And now a fifth expect a “V-shaped” economic recovery, up from a 10th in the previous month....
...Even Toyota, one of the world’s most financially robust carmakers, is exploring a new credit line with banks to boost its balance sheet. Protecting jobs is another top priority....
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