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10 November 2021 Analysis of the Week: Holding Interest?
Analysis of the Week: Holding Interest? By Alison Catchpole The Story On 4 November 2021, the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was expected to announce a rise in interest rates. Instead, at the interest rate meeting on 2 November 2021, the vote was 7-2 to keep rates on...- Alison C
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Whistle Stop: CFTC Hands Record $200 Million Reward Under its Whistleblower Program
Whistle Stop: CFTC Hands Record $200 Million Reward Under its Whistleblower Program By Alison Catchpole The Story Last week, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) handed a record reward of $200 million under its Whistleblower Program. The sum recognised the “specific...- Alison C
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13 October 2021 Analysis Of The Week: Not Such Grand Designs
Analysis Of The Week: Not Such Grand Designs By Alison Catchpole The Story It has been dubbed a “Lehman scale crisis” (Law.com). Evergrande, part of the Global 500 – one of the world’s biggest businesses by revenue – is “teetering on the brink of default, with more than $300bn of total...- Alison C
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- Category: Restructuring and Insolvency
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6 October 2021 Analysis Of The Week: Sex Discrimination in the Workplace
Analysis Of The Week: Sex Discrimination in the Workplace By Alison Catchpole The Story When estate agent Alice Thompson applied to her Mayfair-based employer for flexible working after the birth of her daughter in November 2018, her company boss refused. She had been earning around...- Alison C
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29 September 2021 Analysis Of The Week: Tales of the Unexpected?
Analysis Of The Week: Tales of the Unexpected? By Alison Catchpole The Story Netflix is having an expensive September. Just a few weeks ago, the streaming giant announced the acquisition of a long-term lease on Longcross Studios, owned by the investment branch of insurers Aviva. Now, in...- Alison C
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15 September 2021 Chain Reaction: Global Supply Chain Issues Cause Havoc
Chain Reaction: Global Supply Chain Issues Cause Havoc By Alison Catchpole The Story “The supply shock that started in China [...] and the demand shock that followed as the global economy shut down exposed vulnerabilities in the production strategies and supply chains of firms just...- Alison C
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8 September 2021 Playtime is Over: China Limits Video Games Usage
Playtime is Over: China Limits Video Games Usage By Alison Catchpole The Story On 31 August 2021, a sweeping ban was introduced for anyone under 18 in China on playing video games during the school week. The ban limits children to one hour of playing time on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays...- Alison C
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1 September 2021 Binance: Working Off The Books
Binance: Working Off The Books By Alison Catchpole The Story The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reiterated its position on Binance Markets Limited (BML), the UK division of the Binance Group, for which it had issued a warning earlier in the summer. On 25 June, the FCA had...- Alison C
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11 August 2021 Analysis Of The Week: Banking Boom
Analysis Of The Week: Banking Boom By Alison Catchpole The Story The banking sector is booming. After an initial dip in the first quarter of 2021, Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS) and JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) all racked up their highest ever profits during the pandemic (Bloomberg)... -
4 August 2021 Analysis Of The Week: Archegos Capital Management
Analysis Of The Week: Archegos Capital Management By Alison Catchpole The Story Last week on the back of a damning report on the biggest loss in its 165-year history, Credit Suisse (CS) was “rushing to overhaul its risk department, including rehiring on inflated salaries staff who have... -
28 July 2021 Analysis of The Week: An Opioid Epidemic
Analysis of The Week: An Opioid Epidemic By Alison Catchpole The Story According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provisional data showed 2020 was a record year for drug overdose deaths, with over 93,000 - up 29% from a year earlier. "Our country's opioid epidemic is...- Alison C
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21 July 2021 Analysis Of The Week: Toxic TokTik?
Analysis Of The Week: Toxic TokTik? By Alison Catchpole The Story Tiktok, the social media juggernaut seemingly supercharged by worldwide lockdowns, is having a great year. According to Sensor Tower, “TikTok was the most downloaded and highest grossing non-game app globally in the first...- Alison C
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14 July 2021 Analysis Of The Week: Pain at the Pump
Analysis Of The Week: Pain at the Pump By Alison Catchpole The Story “The last oil price boom may be in sight” predicted business advisory firm Boston Consulting Group in a recent paper (New York Times). The latest OPEC+ agreement, however, does not seem to be. The OPEC+ (Oil Petroleum...- Alison C
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30 June 2021 Analysis Of The Week: An Apple a Day No More?
Analysis Of The Week: An Apple a Day No More? By Alison Catchpole The Story On 23 June 2021, almost exactly a year after the introduction of the Hong Kong National Security Law (NSL), Hong Kong’s most vocal pro-democracy newspaper, the 26-year-old Apple Daily, printed its final...- Alison C
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23 June 2021 Coca-Cola: Bottling It?
Coca-Cola: Bottling It? By Alison Catchpole The Story As Portuguese football captain Cristiano Ronaldo sat down to speak to the media on the eve of the 15 June 2021 Group F opener in Budapest, he moved two Coca-Cola bottles aside, and said “agua” (water)*. The following day, French... -
Analysis Of The Week: Data Disasters
Analysis Of The Week: Data Disasters By Alison Catchpole The Story Cyber attacks have been hitting headlines hard recently*. In early June 2021, hackers accessed McDonald’s customers’ emails, delivery addresses and phone numbers in Taiwan and South Korea. The same breach allegedly...- Alison C
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Analysis Of The Week The Housing Price Frenzy
Analysis Of The Week: The Housing Price Frenzy By Alison Catchpole The Story Property prices have been experiencing a “market frenzy” worldwide (Bloomberg). “British house prices rose by 10.9% in May compared with the same month last year” (Reuters), according to data from mortgage...- Alison C
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Analysis of the Week: Oil’s Black Wednesday
Analysis of the Week: Oil’s Black Wednesday By Alison Catchpole The Story “Over the past decade, the Company has failed to evolve in a rapidly changing world… We believe that to address this underperformance, the Company must commit to evolve and chart a long-term strategic plan for...- Alison C
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Analysis Of The Week: China's Crypto Clampdown
Analysis Of The Week: China's Crypto Clampdown By Alison Catchpole The Story Cryptocurrencies dropped like a stone on 19 May 2021, with Bitcoin falling from over $45,000 on Tuesday to $32,000 on Wednesday, in the wake of a clampdown in China. A directive warned that “cryptocurrency...- Alison C
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Analysis of the Week: Enemies at the Gates: Bill and Melinda Announce Divorce
Analysis of the Week: Enemies at the Gates: Bill and Melinda Announce Divorce By Alison Catchpole The Story “Bill and Melinda Gates are divorcing,” American TV writer Gary Janetti posted on Instagram on 3 May 2021. “She gets California”. Bill and Melinda have a joint estimated...- Alison C
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