Hints and tips:
...That job came to the fore earlier this year when Silicon Valley Bank, Signature and First Republic fell over, sending US regional banks into a brief tailspin....
...Being back at the helm after an employee revolt looks like powerful vindication for Altman, and a green light to forge ahead....
...AI is giving underwriters godlike powers, according to the president of Sompo Holdings, one of Japan’s biggest insurance companies....
...And so, you know, the main thing to understand about SVB is the S and the V — Silicon Valley, right? It’s taking deposits from Silicon Valley start-ups....
...VC declines a seat at the crypto table Silicon Valley’s VC firms are increasingly passing on taking board seats at nascent crypto companies....
...Twitter founder and former chief Jack Dorsey is in talks to roll his shares into the new private company....
...As always, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com) with thoughts for other companies to cover, trends to follow or general tips....
...Charlie researched loads out of Ukraine — it would be worth the lorries being shot up, they said, for the insurance. They were not entirely joking....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...Look at Silicon Valley. Building on these strengths should be the first plank of our strategy....
...Japanese insurer Tokio Marine has said the insurance policies at the heart of the Greensill Capital collapse may not have been valid, as investors pressed the company to detail its exposure to the lender...
...As with many immigrants in America, soccer helped him forge friendships....
...Its iptiQ unit helps other companies to develop insurance products....
...Reana Bashir did not have a single customer when she opened a franchise of the insurance broker Coversure in Keighley five years ago....
...Meanwhile, Tim Bradshaw writes that remote working is on trial in China and Silicon Valley....
...Trump used his political fire-power to forge the deal and he will likely use it again down the road to hold OPEC+ to their promised cuts to the end of Q1 2022....
...’s biggest companies....
...It draws executives from the nearby asset managers and insurance companies, as well as an artistic crowd. Just recently, Drouant reopened following a revamp by interior designers Fabrizio Casiraghi....
...companies....
...In an office above a nail bar in the Silicon Valley town of Menlo Park, the legal data business Lex Machina amasses as many rulings from US courts as it can get its hands on....
...The revolution spreads On January 23 1974, John Clifton Bogle strode into the boardroom of Wellington Management Company’s Valley Forge headquarters....
...The marketing power of drug companies and laissez-faire attitude of doctors has fuelled one of the worst public-health epidemics of modern times, which ended up proving ruinous for De La Rosa and millions...
...They also mutualise the costs and the insurance....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...Silicon Valley may have an image as a haven of libertarianism but some are surprisingly keen on the idea of greater social insurance — such as a “citizen’s” or “basic” income — to be funded by a digital...
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