Hints and tips:
...We look forward to continuing to track its progress — there is a sensible business model underneath it all (a credit to Vernon Hill’s vision despite all the mishaps along the journey) as we have always said...
...Some asylum seekers are staying in a squat on Brussels’ Rue de la Loi, just next to the headquarters of De Moor’s party, CD&V....
...As ever, drop me a note at sid.v@ft.com if you’ve got thoughts and ideas for upcoming Future of Money newsletters....
...VOD’s dividend could therefore become a lever to appease potential pressure on credit. Another day, another record low for Aston Martin Lagonedown....
...Retailers will be charged an average of 40 per cent less on purchases made in the European Economic Area using Mastercard, Maestro, Visa, Visa Electron and V-PAY credit and debit cards issued in countries...
...To his credit, he acknowledged having made the remark, though of course it was now his view, he said, that the “judges are the wisest heads in literary Christendom”....
...Beenz and other alternative online currencies such as Flooz, eCash and Cybergold have struggled to gain acceptance among customers and merchants, while conventional credit cards have gained in online acceptance...
...MacGregor, to his credit, disdains any phrase that uses the word “diplomacy” to describe what he does....
...Credit Suisse may condition its acceptance of a market maker’s offer to purchase the ETNs on its agreeing to sell to Credit Suisse specified hedging instruments consistent with Credit Suisse’s hedging strategy...
...The activation of CACs effectively requires acceptance by 66% of bondholders....
...(There’s a great take by Credit Slips here for instance.) It was that kind of case. Mr Justice Briggs didn’t merely take a technical potshot at exit consents....
...Mr Vernon – whose surname counts for the ‘v’ in Brevan – intends to “pursue other interests” and will leave in September, the publicity-shy hedge fund told investors in a monthly update sent out earlier...
...In 1909, Cumming was plucked out of the job of supervising Southampton boom defence to join Captain Vernon Kell in forming a secret service bureau....
...But they have been in dispute with Ms Kroes over whether their charging structures for cross-border transactions were anti-competitive because they unjustifiably inflated the cost of card acceptance by retailers...
...Monday morning’s Sepa launch covers only credit transfers....
...And with all economists, bar the Federal Reserve’s, now expecting a US recession to be more U-shaped than V-shaped, the ability to execute a U-turn would seem useful for investors....
...Brevan was set up five years ago by the secretive Alan Howard and four Credit Suisse colleagues, Jean-Philippe Blochet, Chris Rokos, James Vernon and Trifon Natsis - the B, R, V and N of Brevan....
...Thomas Hartl, Vernon Hills, Illinois David Bowers: The key rate for US borrowers is the mortgage rate and not the Fed Funds rate....
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