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“By the end of 2017, Greycroft will have generated nearly $400 million of realized gains for LPs [limited partners] from 30 profitable exits,” he told Fortune by email. Greycroft's performance, of course, encompasses many misses and a few big hits. Its greatest “exits” so far include the $800 million sale of
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Bitcoin futures eased back from an initial surge of almost 22% to trade up 13% on Monday, in an eagerly awaited U.S. market debut that backers hope will confer greater legitimacy on the volatile cryptocurrency and lead to its wider use. Although bitcoin futures were already offered on some unregulated
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Manchester City and Bayern Munich will be happy with a Champions League draw that went easy on them as Pep Guardiola's side will face Basel and the German giants are up against Besiktas. The Premier League side could have faced Real Madrid or Juventus and Bayern had Barcelona and Paris
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European banking regulations put in place since the 2008-2009 financial crisis have discouraged banks from becoming too complex, Villeroy, the governor of the Bank of France, told a bank supervision conference in Paris. Meanwhile, new European rules on winding down troubled banks aim to remove
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The election also saw John Heron of Paragon Group step down from the board to take up a position on the UK Finance Mortgages and Product Service Board. John has many years of continued service to IMLA since the late 1980s, including multiple terms as IMLA chairman and director roles since the
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The $25 billion-asset company said in a press release Monday that it will sell about $1.5 billion in health care, technology and other cash flow loans to Morgan Stanley Bank for a pretax gain of roughly $13 million. PacWest said it also expects to sell a portfolio of performing technology cash flow loans
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Ministers should consider strengthening the safety net for homeowners struggling to pay their mortgage, a report suggests. Help for this group introduced in response to the financial crisis will be largely withdrawn by 2022. Academics, commissioned by lenders' trade body UK Finance, said the
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Monsanto (mon) will give cash back to U.S. farmers who buy a weedkiller that has been linked to widespread crop damage, offering an incentive to use its product even as regulators in several U.S. states weigh restrictions on its use. The incentive to use XtendiMax with VaporGrip, a herbicide based on
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The firm owned 176,529 shares of the textile maker's stock after buying an additional 6,264 shares during the quarter. American International Group Inc. owned approximately 0.22% of Ralph Lauren worth $15,586,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Other hedge funds have also modified their holdings
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“Nearly 7,000 tons” of baby milk formula made by the French company Lactalis has been recalled over fear of salmonella contamination. The recall affects all products made at a factory in Craon in northwest France since February 15, 2017, including some meant for export to Britain, China, Greece, Haiti,
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Hughes said: “Building Society's play a very important and distinctive role in the provision of mortgages and savings and serving their local communities, but with fewer than 50 now remaining I strongly believe it is important that these unique organisations continue to prosper. “I was particularly
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Dec 11 (Reuters) – UK-based investment manager M&G Investments named Oliver Wilson as head of asset based lending in the company's direct lending team. Wilson, who will be based in London, joins from Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc's asset based lending division. (Reporting by Nikhil Subba
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UK fintech Nuvo has launched a robo-advisor described by the company as an “artificially intelligent digital broker powered by chatbot technology.” The robo-advisor paves the way for customers to pick prices for mortgage deals, in less than a minute with the help of artificial intelligence. It was launched
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Chelsea feared the worst and the worst actually happened, as the Blues discovered that the price for failing to win their Champions League group is a round of 16 date with Barcelona and Lionel Messi. Two draws at Stamford Bridge, at home to Roma and Atletico Madrid, saw the Premier League
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Germany's domestic security agency has warned that Chinese intelligence has been creating fake social networking profiles, particularly on LinkedIn, to gather information about German politicians and officials. In an unusual move, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) on Sunday released details
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DEERFIELD, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE: FBHS), an industry-leading home and security products company, today announced that on Friday, December 8, 2017, its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per common share. The dividend
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This report gives us an overview of the Global Peer-to-peer Lending Market which is classified on the basis of product and its various applications. It also mentions the key area where the demand for Peer-to-peer Lending products is going to have. Also based on the type of the product the market is
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For market chain survey, the report covers valuable information of upstream raw materials, equipment, downstream client survey, marketing channels, market evolution trends and proposals which includes productive information. Functional tools like market positioning of Real Estate Software & Apps key
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Fortune Brands Home & Security (NYSE: FBHS) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share, or $0.8 annualized. This is an 11.1% increase from the prior dividend of $0.18. The dividend will be payable on March 14, 2018, to stockholders of record on February 23, 2018, with an ex-dividend date of
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Martinrea International Inc's' (TSX:MRE) is one of Canada's large-cap stocks operating in the Global Auto Components industry. MRE saw some insider buying over the past three months, with insiders investing in 23,081 shares during this period. It is widely considered that insider buying stock in their
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