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CT Post
April 18, 2018
Three years after its creation by former GE Capital financiers, Great Rock Capital reported $200 million in fresh equity financing, with the Westport firm lending funds to other companies in amounts ranging from $10 million to $100 million. Great Rock was created in 2015 by CEO Stuart Armstrong withÃâà...
Deccan Herald
April 18, 2018
Police have arrested two women and a man for murdering a 67-year-old financier for gain on April 2. Sanjay Satish, from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, was tied up and strangled in his rented flat in Bethel Nagar, KR Puram, East Bengaluru. His decomposed body was found three days later. Police have arrestedÃâà...
Philadelphia Business Journal
April 2, 2018
Now banks are in the forefront of the issue, as gun control advocates are pressuring companies of all kinds to re-evaluate their relationships with gun manufacturers and the National Rifle Association. Some have responded with new policies, but Wells Fargo – the reported top financier for the gun industryÃâà...
Irish Times
March 30, 2018
Russian president Vladimir Putin will continue to have people killed “as he wills” until he is faced with devastating personal consequences, according to the UK-based financier Bill Browder. He said he had no doubt but that Mr Putin had approved the attack in London on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughterÃâà...
Lexology
March 28, 2018
With competition among aircraft lessors remaining fierce, airlines are taking an increasing proportion of aircraft on operating leases. The 'wholesaling' of debt financing – where the primary recourse entity on financings is the lessor rather than the airline – is an important recent trend in the aircraft financingÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 28, 2018
Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho, accused of links to a plot to siphon billions of dollars from a Malaysian state fund, is trying to stop the United States government from seizing a US$250 million yacht in Indonesia, court filings showed. The Cayman Islands-flagged Equanimity, a 92-metre superyachtÃâà...
Deadline
March 27, 2018
The firm has previously invested in U.S. outfits including Hyde Park and and Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald's Parkes/MacDonald shingles and more recently Stuart Ford's fledgling AGC Studios. In 2016 the financier announced a $300m content fund with China. The financier recently debuted localÃâà...
BloombergQuint
March 26, 2018
India is considering a proposal for a joint venture between the nation's biggest electricity producer and two state-run power financiers to bid for stressed power assets, one of the largest contributors to the nation's bad loans. The Power Ministry is looking at the proposal by the state-run National ThermalÃâà...
The Times
March 23, 2018
The City watchdog has shone a light on sexism in the top ranks of the banking industry after accusing a financier at one of the country's largest lenders of calling a female regulator “little lady”. Megan Butler, head of supervision at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), said yesterday that a “senior leaderÃâà...
Business Line
March 13, 2018
RattanIndia Finance has picked up 10.08 crore shares (11.57 per cent stake) by invoking the pledged shares. According to data with the stock exchanges, 72.76 per cent stake or 46.60 crore shares of the company held by its promoters (as of December 2017) have been pledged with financiers. PromotersÃâà...
Miami Herald
March 13, 2018
Seven years ago, when the skeleton of the building that was to be the Trump Ocean Club had risen only 62 of its planned 70 stories, one of the developers gestured to it grandly and boasted to a reporter from Time magazine: “When you think of Paris you think of the Eiffel Tower, and when you think ofÃâà...
BloombergQuint
March 13, 2018
(Bloomberg) -- Irish Central Bank Deputy Governor Ed Sibley warned that many financial firms remain unprepared for Britain's exit from the European Union as the two sides remain at odds on their future relationship. Officials in Brussels say Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to cherry pick the best bits ofÃâà...
Business Insider
March 13, 2018
WILMINGTON, Del./NEW YORK (Reuters) - Colorful New York financier Lynn Tilton has put her Zohar investment funds, a key element of her distressed-debt empire and the subject of several legal battles, into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with a goal of selling assets or refinancing debt. Tilton said in papers filedÃâà...
Independent Online
March 10, 2018
Johannesburg - Two multinational financiers turned down the controversial Gupta family when it wanted to buy an aircraft, the South Gauteng High Court heard on Friday. The Guptas eventually leased the plane from British company Stoneriver in 2015 for Ãâã41-million (about R490-million). Owen Cook SCÃâà...
Dallas News
March 10, 2018
Dallas financier Bobby Haas has a leather jacket that features a snarling wild animal with the words “Lone Wolf” written above it — biker lingo for a rider who isn't affiliated with a gang or club. To Haas, the image fits his persona. “I've been a lone wolf my entire life,” he says. Haas was the stealth partner ofÃâà...
KQED
March 3, 2018
Mathes, who works as the cultural services program director for Modesto, says the city was supposed to be named after a powerful financier who started the Bank of California. "He declined to have the town named after himself," Mathes says. A person involved in the layout of the town said the financier wasÃâà...
Netralnews
February 28, 2018
JAKARTA, NNC - Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) of National Police (Polri) dismantles the network of hate speech spreader, the Muslim Cyber Army (MCA) group. Currently, the Cyber Crime Team of Police Bareskrim is hunting for financiers and customers of hoax services by MCA. The DirectorÃâà...
South China Morning Post
February 28, 2018
Indonesia on Wednesday seized a luxury yacht on the island of Bali sought by the US as part of a multibillion-dollar corruption investigation linked to Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and wanted businessman Jho Low. “We have been inspecting the crew since yesterday andÃâà...
ESI Africa
February 28, 2018
A consortium of local and international banks today signed a R20 billion ($1.7 billion) short-term credit facility with South Africa's power utility, Eskom. The government-guaranteed facility will form part of the financing of Eskom's current capital expenditure programme. The terms of the facility are comparableÃâà...
Tampabay.com
February 28, 2018
A statue of Jose Marti, considered the George Washington of Cuba, adorns the entrance to the historic Cuban Club, 2010 14th Ave in Ybor City. The club's $190,000 loan for renovation work was frozen by financial institutions seeking assurances it isn't doing business with Cuba. [SKIP O'ROURKE | Times].
Global Trade Review (GTR)
December 31, 1999
The majority of trade financiers from across the globe see US protectionism as the biggest threat to global trade, but experts warn that there are other challenges of far greater concern. This was revealed at last week's ICC Banking Commission annual meeting, during which 71% of members of the audienceÃâà...
New York Magazine
December 31, 1999
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer and “fixer” whose home and office were raided by law enforcement this week, facilitated a $1.6 million payment to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by venture capitalist and RepublicanÃâà...
GlobalCapital
December 31, 1999
Participants across the equipment sector have expressed mixed views over the two funding options, depending on the asset being securitized. Aviation financiers have said that execution in the bank market is easier for aircraft assets, given that aircraft ABS deal structures still lack standardisation.
NBC4 Washington (blog)
December 31, 1999
D.C. Council member Trayon White made anti-Semitic remarks in a Facebook video. He later deleted the video and apologized. News4's Derrick Ward reports. (Published Monday, March 19, 2018). A member of the D.C. Council has apologized after he promoted a conspiracy theory that accuses a prominent Jewish familyÃâà...
Business Day
December 31, 1999
As SA's democracy approaches a quarter century, the country has made substantial development progress. Significant improvements of infrastructure — both physical and financial — have supported economic stability. The expanded provision of essential services has helped reduce access gaps inÃâà...
Financial News
December 31, 1999
A group of finance executives and economists has teamed up to create a cryptocurrency that aims to tackle the main criticisms of virtual money — namely, its anonymity, lack of underlying value and high volatility. The Saga Foundation, a Swiss non-profit organisation, plans to create Saga, which it said willÃâà...
MarketWatch
December 31, 1999
Things have been busy recently for Anthony Scaramucci. Prior to serving as President Trump's White House Communications Director for just 11 days, “The Mooch” founded hedge-fund investing firm SkyBridge Capital and a hedge-fund conference known as SALT. So, he's only now gotten around toÃâà...
Financial Mail
December 31, 1999
Given the scale of funding needed, the consequences for the agricultural sector of its financiers (or even some of them) withdrawing would be dire and entirely predictable. Government would not be able to make up the shortfall, and with government policy ramping up the risk, appeals to financial institutionsÃâà...
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
pakistan A Pakistani flag flies on a mast as paramilitary Frontier Corps soldiers talk while guarding at Karachi's District Malir prison, August 23, 2013. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro. A global money-laundering watchdog has decided to place Pakistan back on its terrorist financing watchlist. The move is part of aÃâà...
