Anthony Hilton: L&G’s fund managers force big firms to do the right thingstandard.co.uk - Anthony Hilton The Financial Reporting Council produced a Stewardship Code — a series of principles for institutional investors to follow on issues from monitoring …
Enterprise Red-hot startup Snowflake is adding support for Google's cloud in an effort to meet Wall Street's demandBusiness Insider - Dan DeFrancescoOne of the hottest startups in the cloud computing space is adding support for Google Cloud as it aims to court Wall Street clients. Snowflake, the cloud-based data warehouse valued at $3.5 billion, will
Research on climate-related risks and financial stability: An "epistemological break"?bis.org A growing body of research and studies by academics, central banks, the NGFS and institutions such as the BIS focus on climate-related risks (CRRs). …
Learning The 10-Second Secret to Faster LearningInc Magazine - Jessica StillmanThe sad truth is that you're probably making yourself less intelligent than you could be. Science shows that common study techniques like rereading material, using highlighters, or taking notes with a
Coal French bank SocGen further reduces business with coal industryReuters - Reuters EditorialFILE PHOTO: A view shows the logo on the headquarters's of French bank Societe Generale at the financial and business district of La Defense, west of Paris, France, April 18, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank CEO speaks of 'tough cutbacks' at contentious shareholder meetingyahoo.com - Elliot Smith Deutsche Bank DBK-DE executives met with shareholders Thursday, as the bank's tumbling share price and growing backlog of scandals place the board …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo BBC Blogs - BBC Writersroom - Russell T Davies on his new BBC One drama 'Years and Years'bbc.co.ukYears and Years began on BBC One on Tuesday 14th May and on BBC iPlayer. The writer Russell T Davies explains why, despite the drama's often dark subject matter, that the real heart of it is about family,
Daenerys Targaryen Game of Thrones: what Machiavelli might have made of the politics in WesterosThe Conversation UK - Toby James Warning: this contains spoilers for Game of Thrones, series eight. Alongside many other aspects of the final series of Game of Thrones, the …
Goldman Sachs Goldman wants to manage the assets of the middling richThe Economist IF THE BEST way to get rich is by managing other people’s money, it helps if your clients control a lot of it. For private-equity firms and hedge …
Grand Prix series heads to Europeparalympic.org In a busy weekend for Para athletics, with events taking place around the world, the focus for many is on Nottwil, Switzerland; where three days of …
The City State Street’s blockchain chief departing bank to set up data privacy startup - The Blocktheblockcrypto.com State Street’s global chief technology architect Moiz Kohari is leaving his position to launch a startup which utilises blockchain technology for …
Christian Sewing Welcome to plan C for Deutsche's corporate and investment bankefinancialcareers.com Surprise!!!!!!!!!!! A new round of job losses is almost certainly coming soon to a Deutsche Bank office near you. With Deutsche's share price at a …
Fans Are Sharing Heartwarming Memories About Children's Author Judith Kerr Who Died At 95BuzzFeed - Hazel Shearing "She was a legendary author and illustrator, whose stories and illustrations gave pleasure to millions around the world."
Play buttonCelebrity News Judith Kerr, beloved author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, dies aged 95The Guardian - Claire ArmitsteadJudith Kerr, the author and illustrator whose debut picture book The Tiger Who Came to Tea introduced generations of pre-school children to the joyful chaos of uncontrolled appetites, died at home yesterday
Diets Still on a diet: European banks continue to retreatdbresearch.com - Corporate Center - Research IT Shrinkage – and no end in sight: in the first quarter of the year, the European banks once more saw revenues and costs alike decline compared to 12 …
Books Broadening horizons: the best new fiction in translationThe Guardian - Marta BausellsIn Family Lexicon, Ginzburg is homesick and conjuring up memories of her family – their quirks and maddening fixations Translations make up only a tiny proportion of the literary fiction published in UK,
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Personal Finance (UK) Facebook and City banks among highest-paying UK firmsThe Guardian - Julia KolleweThree City banks, a German software business and Facebook pay their staff the most in the UK, according to a new survey, while staff working at Domino’s Pizza and the shop chains Footasylum and Schuh the
Books A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes review – women of the Trojan warThe Guardian - Elizabeth LowryHomer’s Iliad, as Natalie Haynes notes in the afterword to A Thousand Ships, is rightly regarded as “one of the great foundational texts on war and warriors, men and masculinity”. Recently we’ve seen wave
Jack Reacher How author Lee Child lost his job and found global successbbc.co.uk - By Vincent DowdLee Child has had the kind of success most authors can only fantasise about. He's written 23 thrillers featuring American hero Jack Reacher - with total sales of at least 100 million copies worldwide.
Books The Mind Has a Mind of Its Own: On Maria Popova’s “Figuring”lareviewofbooks.org - By Janet Sternburg NOTE THE ABSENCE of a subtitle. This book is not for those who need to know in advance what a book is about. The readers who will love this book — …
Fleabag (TV Series) Amazon’s Fleabag season 2 is gorgeous, heartbreaking — and so, so funnyVox - Todd VanDerWerffFor most of my life, I’ve had the vague suspicion that I am a fictional character. Ever since I was a kid, like a really, really little kid, I’ve had a sense of the edges of my reality, of the people the
Literature Harrison triumphs as UK winner of EU Prize for Literaturethebookseller.com - katie.mansfield_466521 Melissa Harrison has been revealed as the UK winner of the European Union Prize for Literature 2019 with All Among the Barley (Bloomsbury Circus), a …
Ikigai This Japanese secret to a longer and happier life is gaining attention from millions around the worldCNBC - Ken Mogi There's no single way to find your ikigai, but you can start by asking a few simple questions: What makes you happy? What are you good at? What (and …
Poland Para-canoe European Championships: Emma Wiggs retains title as GB win 10 medals in Polandbbc.co.ukGreat Britain won 10 medals at the Para-canoe European Championships as Paralympic champion Emma Wiggs retained her VL2W title in Poznan, Poland. In addition to Wiggs' gold, Charlotte Henshaw and Stuart
Play buttonBanksy Banksy Strikes Again in Veniceopenculture.com - by DC Juxtapoz writes: "Never invited to be the part of Venice Biennale, Banksy once again invited himself to showcase his work. Using a typical pop-up …
Books Hillsborough survivors' words shortlisted for Forward poetry prizeThe Guardian - Alison FloodA debut poetry collection made entirely from formal evidence given during the second inquest into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster has been shortlisted for one of the UK’s most prestigious poetry awards.
Current Clearing Ratesclarusft.com • The death of uncleared markets has been widely over-reported. • We look at Clarus CCPView and recent BIS data to look at the size of uncleared …
Books Useful Enemies by Noel Malcolm review – learning from the TurksThe Guardian - Christopher de BellaigueThe Janissaries were promoted on merit, not patronage, and were more disciplined than the legions of ancient Rome In 1534 an Ottoman delegation was in Paris to discuss a plan to unite France and Turkey
Tech Industry America’s newest stock exchange wants to fix one of capitalism’s fundamental challengesVox - Theodore SchleiferWhat if the problem with capitalism wasn’t income inequality or an education gap but the stock market itself? And what if that problem couldn’t be fixed by a wealth tax, billionaire philanthropy, or other
