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...The exchanges chronicled how Daniel Woo, an officer in China’s Ministry of State Security spy agency, directed Creyelman to influence discussions in Europe on issues ranging from China’s crackdown on democracy...
...Brussels is hoping to woo the Latin Americans with promises of investment in green energy, infrastructure and social projects, though it is unclear how much new money is available....
...The UK government has set up a £500m fund to woo battery investors, and is offering around £100m of support to the Nissan project, according to sources....
...It’s been “a nightmare for allocation,” says Vincent Mortier, chief investment officer at Amundi. “The 60/40 model has been broken for some time and totally broken for a year.”...
...Swift boasts the French media billionaire Vincent Bolloré in her corner, who has remained a major shareholder of Universal following its initial public offering and happens to be a master on the corporate...
...Vivendi, which is controlled by feared corporate raider Vincent Bolloré, will also get three board seats and after dilution will hold 27 per cent of the shares, just under the threshold to trigger a full...
...Additional reporting by Valentina Romei and Matthew Vincent...
...matthew.vincent@ft.com...
...Matthew Vincent It seems an unlikely marriage. But the partnership between online ecommerce giant Amazon and north of England grocery chain Morrisons appears to be blossoming. Thanks for reading....
...Woo hoo! OQ Verdict: Another entirely predictable update from WH Smith, showing that its strategy of letting travel outlets gloss over (gaffer tape over?)...
...The new Lombard, Matthew Vincent, will soon be wielding his pen as cuttingly as The Doctor’s sonic screwdriver. The Tardis is throbbing....
...Tefaf New York Fall may be a fair for older art (from antiquities to the 1920s) but its exhibitors certainly know how to woo with 21st-century tactics....
...However, General Vincent Brooks, chief of US Forces Korea and United Nations Command since 2016 who is ultimately responsible for South Korean security, signalled a note of caution....
...But the eleventh-hour attempts of Deltic’s Peter Marks to woo Revolution Bars shareholders grows more like a scene from the Llandudno Locarno by the minute....
...Schneider, of France, had attempted to woo the British engineering software group twice before in recent years, hence those third-hand headlines....
...Mr Browne’s warning about French efforts to woo business from the City was interpreted in some quarters as evidence of a “French plot to destroy London” after the UK leaves the EU in 2019....
French negotiator carries Dublin’s hopes of minimising impact of UK exit from the EU
...database of 2017 ICOs provided by startup KYC-Chain.shows that ICOs have been issued in wide range of jurisdictions, from the US, UK, China and Australia to Cyprus, Slovenia, Curaçao, Isle of Man and Saint Vincent...
...George Osborne’s bid to woo investment by cutting the UK corporate tax rate to under 15 per cent has been welcomed by business groups though some experts warned it was unlikely to make much difference....
...French ministers have been deployed to woo the large international banks, tax rules have been changed in favour of foreign workers and advertising campaigns have been launched....
...He was speaking after Vincent de Rivaz, EDF chief executive, issued assurances over the one-third stake to be held in Hinkley by state-owned Chinese investors....
...“I do think there will be times when there is a combined opportunity to woo foreign investors,” Mr Donaghy says....
...It could persuade the Irish and Northern Irish governments to work together to woo foreign direct investment, something that has not happened so far....
...Additional reporting by Mure Dickie and Vincent Boland...
...Ireland’s prime minister has appealed to emigrants who left the country after its economic and financial crash to return home, as the government steps up efforts to woo investors and skilled expatriates...
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