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...The increase in deals has been partly spurred by an anticipation of rate cuts from central banks, which investors think could come as early as June....
...Polish central bank chief Adam Glapiński told the FT he was seeking a truce with Prime Minister Donald Tusk after an increasingly bitter feud....
...The EU’s executive branch is known for leading the way when it comes to regulating crucial industries, like Big Tech....
...This company shares a Russian director with “Velada LLC”, which was granted a concession by the Assad regime in Syria to explore for oil and gas....
...The development is now home to a branch of the shared office group WeWork, along with additional office space, apartments, and retail and leisure units....
...This could buy the industry more time but we mustn’t become complacent,” said Dave Mace, who runs the Luxembourg branch of MFS, the $492bn US fund group....
...Republican critics said the president was siding with Democrats and abandoning a central pledge of his presidential campaign....
...It allowed the government to raid the central bank’s reserves....
...In the UK, Lloyds Banking Group last month extended its cost reduction measures by announcing a further 3,000 job cuts and 200 branch closures, citing longer-term lower interest rates....
...The central bank is also likely to oppose any attempt to split the Absa branch network in South Africa from Barclays’ smaller operations in a dozen other countries, such as Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique...
...Likewise, Jamie Qiu, founder of EY’s start-up accelerator, has invited employees to a London branch of Central Working to take them out of their “comfort zone . . . it stimulates ideas about collaboration...
...Business email compromise crimes are “a huge” problem, says Austin Berglas, head of cyber investigations at K2 Intelligence and a former chief of the FBI’s cyber branch in New York....
...US equities have been hit by fears about China’s economy, weakness in emerging markets and uncertainty over the timing of the US central bank’s first rate hike in almost a decade....
...Novo Banco, with total assets of €65bn, was created last August as the “good bank” rescued from the collapse of BES, including its branch network and workforce....
...Without success in that realm, it would be difficult to start to branch off.”...
...At 310 metres, it will be the tallest building in western Europe, with apartments, offices, restaurants and a branch of the Hong Kong luxury hotel chain Shangri-La....
...It is hoped Mr Adam will help the unit branch into more active trading, alongside its mezzanine finance and direct lending funds....
...They installed new management and re-christened it Shinsei Bank with a mandate to branch out from long-term commercial lending....
...It’s not clear the Vodafone board – refreshed since the last unsuccessful shareholder revolt in 2006 – needs the root-and-branch change OTPP proposes....
...From the report by the LA Times Jacket Copy blog: In a dramatic move, the Philadelphia Free Library System announced today that it will close all branch, regional and central libraries as of Oct. 2....
...Puerto Rico is “a buyer’s market”, especially now, says Julian Rivera-Aspinall, president of the Isla del Coquí branch of estate agency Coldwell Banker....
...Action by central banks to cut interest rates will also help, he says....
...“Had we had more time we would might have been able to put in place the legal documentation and gone through the Irish branch…the trouble is that would have taken two to three months.”...
...Hedge funds GSO and Farallon, as well as GE Commercial Finance, the New York branch of France’s Calyon, and, again, Barclays Capital, stepped in. Puget shares closed up 16 per cent at $27.80....
...In this context, it is of very great concern to us that HSBC has lost a number of its key senior employees in Asia and that, despite having the largest branch network in China amongst the foreign banks,...
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