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...The company also set up an office in Japan last summer and planned to expand to Europe as soon as this year, Pan said....
...Once seen as the future of finance, the plans of companies such as Affirm, Dave Inc, MoneyLion and Upstart Holdings to take on established financial institutions are fizzling out....
...If you look across the Atlantic, the big French banks are what are known as bancassurance banks. And they have found a great way-- I mean, they make money hand over fist doing it their way....
...As the ultimate large, liquid, long-term investor it can harvest an illiquidity premium til the cows come home. Unfortunately, like most investment stories, it’s a myth....
...One is the state got out of the business of property in the mid-90s and allowed people to buy their state homes, and it sort of developed from there....
...Anecdotally, I can report that my Brooklyn florist was doing standing-room-only business on Mother’s Day. Send your own observations to: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Hilary Mantel called it “the ultimate edition of Wolf Hall”....
...Or is its ultimate aim to digitise and globalise the home shopping channel? Disappointingly for fans of statecraft, most of the evidence right now seems to point to the latter....
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...I mean, there is a shared responsibility that says nobody wants to kill the industry, but it needs to make sure that as it moves forward, it’s doing so in a legally defensible way....
...It’s not how I’m used to doing business. You know, I mentioned being the CEO is a pretty busy job,” she recently testified in court....
...It’s a scene familiar to anyone who has watched QVC or what used to be the Home Shopping Network, except this version involves social media influencers plugging products in livestreams, known as “lives”,...
...Kenyan and British officials are to sign a deal on Tuesday to boost investment in Nairobi, with the ultimate aim of turning the city, which is home to some of the continent’s biggest banks, into Africa’s...
...BioNTech needed to make money from its first product to plough back into the business....
...Through its Viasat pay-TV business, Nent also had a pan-regional footprint and a reason to invest in a streaming platform that could easily stretch into new markets and languages....
...And as analysts and studios debate whether or not Japanese anime is poised for the global mainstream, some experts believe that its victory as a business model is already secure....
...With health concerns still top of mind, and some jurisdictions including New Mexico implementing restrictions on non-essential business as coronavirus cases rise, even more spending is expected to shift...
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...At present, it is difficult knowing how this will all pan out....
...has gone home....
...Rasmus Jarlov, business minister, has said Denmark is doing all it can to avoid ABLV’s fate....
...So he decided to record himself for seven days, cooking, shopping, humdrum everyday stuff, or, as the 38-year-old puts it: the “ultimate human interest story”....
...For example, if Indonesia — the region’s largest economy and home to four “unicorns” — accelerates reforms and becomes more business-friendly, it is unclear whether Singapore could maintain its advantage...
...“What are you even doing here?” he asked, to all those who didn’t raise their hand....
...nature of this exceptionally low-margin and low-barrier-to-entry business....
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