The Financial Times
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York
– Jan 19, 2020, 7:44 AM
World leaders, chief executives, thinkers and celebrities are gathering in the Swiss mountain town of Davos for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. The event, which begins on Tuesday, has earned a reputation for high-altitude pontificating…
Tron, the smart contracting platform that competes with Ethereum and EOS and ranked highly by the China's Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID), has climbed up the public addresses rankings only trailing Bitcoin and its competitor…
Bloomberg
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Thomas Buckley
– Jan 15, 2020, 9:01 PM
Illustration: Charlotte Pollet for Bloomberg Businessweek At the World Economic Forum in Davos three years ago, Paul Polman, then the chief executive officer of consumer-goods giant Unilever, was a standard bearer of the enviro-capitalist elite.
The Financial Times
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Caroline Binham in London
– Jan 19, 2020, 8:01 AM
Shadow banks have experienced their first fall in assets since 2008, according to new data from the Financial Stability Board, as a Chinese crackdown and stock market declines threw the sector's growth into reverse. Trust companies in China, which…