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...Hong Kong has been trying to woo back foreign investors after Beijing’s crackdown and three years of tough zero-Covid policies, but the law makes clear that authorities’ focus is security, analysts say....
Isle of Man’s GLO wants to sell 25 per cent to clients, letting them influence production
...Politicians will disproportionately woo this group, ignoring the apathetic mainstream. The no-news era will change politics....
...These days, however, an equally useful yardstick is to see them in William Forsythe’s ballets....
...Even as Hong Kong was stepping up efforts to woo back foreign investors, Lee in July denounced eight self-exiled activists as “street rats” and offered a total bounty of $1mn for information leading to their...
...The papers, released this week to the National Archives in Kew, show the prime minister’s efforts to woo Putin in the early days of his presidency when the Russian war in Chechnya was raging, and persuade...
...King Charles told politicians in Cardiff on Friday that Wales “could not have been closer to my mother’s heart”, adding that his son William, the new Prince of Wales, had a “deep love” for the country....
...Global bankers are all “very pro-China”, UBS chair Colm Kelleher said at a financial forum in Hong Kong, where Chinese officials sought to woo rattled international investors on Wednesday....
...Global bankers are all “very pro-China”, UBS chair Colm Kelleher said at a financial forum in Hong Kong where Chinese officials sought to woo rattled international investors on Wednesday....
...Puck’s William Cohan does a deep dive into the deal....
...create a new investment council to advise the government on how to attract funding to the UK, comprising 40 top business leaders and overseas investors, including HSBC chair Mark Tucker, Santander UK chair William...
...Combining “levelling up” funds into a single pot is being examined as part of plans to create up to 40 “investment zones” across the UK that would woo companies by offering low business taxes and light-touch...
...“Business schools need to take a leadership role in helping the new generation of business leaders transform the way we engage in capitalism,” says William Barnett, professor of business leadership, strategy...
...“The scale of the trading was stunning,” said Damian Williams, US attorney for the southern district of New York....
...In Harrow, on London’s north-western fringes, successful Tory efforts to woo British Hindus are a big part of the story....
...It wasn’t too long ago that Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon tried to woo SBF during a meeting in the Caribbean. Even celebrities like supermodel Gisele Bündchen wanted in on the action....
...Firms like Lazard are desperate to woo C-suite executives as a means to eventually get those mandates....
...“She was within a few tenths of [fellow Williams driver] Felipe Massa,” he says, but the team “never dared to make that call”....
...Smart reads Party’s over Property mogul Cevdet Caner used juicy fees and champagne-soaked yacht parties to woo bankers and raise €8bn in just a few years....
...JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley recently acted as bookmakers on £1bn of debt issued to fund gambling company 888’s takeover of William Hill’s European operations....
...The biggest piece of work, the Wholesale Markets Review, is still ongoing, but the Financial Conduct Authority has already announced a sweeping overhaul of listing rules in an attempt to woo more fast-growing...
...No one really seemed that interested in the Tories and we’ve got this equivalent of the famous prawn cocktail circuit that took place in the 1990s when Labour was going around the City trying to woo business...
...This reverential tone infuses a book that is often less can-do than woo-woo....
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