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3 weeks, 1 day ago

M&A Momentum and Trump Trades: Dealmakers’ Predictions for 2025

Mergers and acquisition activity rebounded in 2024, as access to cheaper financing released a pent-up demand to do deals after two down years. Many private equity firms have tried to softly test the market in 2024 to see if there was appetite for their portfolio assets, but many sales processes haven’t properly launched.” Anne Hiebler, global head of M&A, Credit …

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3 months ago

Jurgen Klopp FINALLY lands new job as he signs long-term contract five months after leaving Liverpool

Daily Mail

Jurgen Klopp has found himself a new job after signing a 'long-term' contract to become the 'Global Head of Soccer' at Red Bull. This role will require Klopp to be responsible for the international network of all football clubs under the Red Bull umbrella - including Leipzig, Salzburg and the New York Red Bulls. Jurgen Klopp has finally found a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

US nominates ex Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to head World Bank

Al Jazeera

India-born Banga has close ties to emerging markets, useful to the Bank which wants to help them on pressing problems. United States President Joe Biden has nominated former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to become president of the World Bank, hailing his business experience in his native India and his commitment to mobilizing private funds to help developing countries grapple with …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Running to Save Water: One step at a time

Hindustan Times

A water crisis is impending. The reason I am running is because I want to do three things – raise awareness about the water crisis, show the urgency of the problem we are facing and drive action from companies that represent 90 per cent of water use globally, individuals and governments.” According to World Bank reports, India is home to …

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2 years, 2 months ago

World Falters in Containing Climate Crisis: Negotiators Head to Egypt for COP27

The Quint

Although countries are slowly bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions, the efforts are woefully insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees by the end of the century, according to the 2022 NDC Synthesis Report published on October 26 by UN Climate Change, the agency that hosts the climate summit. “We are still nowhere near the scale …

Climate World Falters

2 years, 6 months ago

This CEO Who Quit His Lucrative Job to 'Sit at Beach' and Live Life is Retirement Goals

News 18

In a surprise move, the Chief Executive Officer of London-based Jupiter Fund Management Plc, Andrew Formica, resigned from his post. Chief Investment Officer Matthew Beesley will assume charge as the company's new CEO. Formica has been the CEO of Henderson Global Investors where he also served as the head of equities and equity fund manager. His successor, Matthew Beesley, meanwhile, …

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4 years ago

TikTok’s interim head Vanessa Pappas is in charge of the app’s future in the US

CNN

Years before Vanessa Pappas became the public face of TikTok, she interviewed for a job hosting a car show at a buzzy video production company that helped internet personalities make money. “She failed the audition I think,” recalled Fred Seibert, cofounder of Next New Networks, who met Pappas when he guest lectured at the New School, where she was completing …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Meet Arvind Krishna, new IBM CEO who is latest south Indian to head global IT company

India Today

The reins of one of the world's biggest tech firms, IBM, will go to Arvind Krishna in April this year. Krishna, a company veteran who is known for spearheading IBM's big acquisition of Red Hat, will take over the office of the chief executive officer from April. Once he is the CEO, Krishna will join the list that includes Sundar …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Opinion: Listen to the climate strikers. It’s suicidal to stick your head in the sand next to a rising sea

LA Times

Today’s global climate strike over humankind’s collective failure to take effective measures to address global warming arises, as do most protests, out of frustration over the status quo. In 2015, the year the world’s nations agreed in Paris to adopt policies to try to limit the rise in global temperature to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, Americans …

Global Climate

5 years, 5 months ago

WhatsApp global head likely to meet IT ministry, RBI officials this week to discuss WhatsApp Payments