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The Brutal Truth for Bankers Is They’re Expendable

January 31, 2021

This was largely a product of the $35 billion Ant Group Co. initial public offering, which caused subscription funds to flow in and then to exit when Chinese regulators aborted the world-record sale.

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Waiving the right to forfeit in the UK

January 29, 2021

What has been less clear is whether demand and acceptance of sums due with knowledge of the breach amount to waiver if the sum fell due after the breach but before the landlord has knowledge of the breach.

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How 2020 has impacted the world of the trustee

January 29, 2021

With rules varying between jurisdictions and an ever-changing set of limitations guiding travel, meetings and office accessibility, the diligent trustee would be well-advised to sense check their trusteeships to gauge any potential risk created by the pan

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Caught short by Tim Price

January 29, 2021

Of all the flora and fauna within the cornucopia of investment and trading strategies, short squeezes are da bomb

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Lessons from the pandemic: Has the simpler post-2008 financial system held up? And where do we go from here? Speech given by Christina Segal-Knowles

January 29, 2021

One of the key ways central clearing counterparties – CCPs – help prevent panic is to be sure that as markets move, firms quickly pay for changes to their derivatives contracts, and insure against likely further changes.

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Segment of one – the ultimate in customer personalisation

January 28, 2021

The segment of one concept may at first seem daunting for any institution

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UK, Europe to prosper after Brexit divorce, top banker tells Saudi summit

January 28, 2021

Thomas Gottstein, chief executive officer of Credit Suisse, was speaking at the Future Investment Initiative, in Riyadh

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Fly or goodbye – can airlines survive without taking to the skies?

January 28, 2021

As once profitable airlines look to survive and raise liquidity to weather the turbulence of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ocorian Director, Abigail Holladay and Watson Farley & Williams Partner, Patrick Moore assess the use of alternative assets as a means

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Office Spaces are in Flux: Time for Corporate Cultures to be ‘Flex-able’

January 27, 2021

Almost a year into this pandemic, vaccines hold hope and promise for a return to in-person office time.

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LVMH weathers the Covid storm

January 27, 2021

As far as geographical performance goes, it’s still very much a game of two halves, with a strong recovery in Asia but sales in Europe are still performing under par given the resurgence of the virus.

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