French president Emmanuel Macron has outlined a tentative, four-stage easing of the country’s Covid-19 lockdown, starting next week and finishing at the end of June. “Our battle now is to vaccinate as quickly as possible to increase our collective immunity,” he said in an interview with regional newspapers. “The big difference between now and October…
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TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey European founders and investors in cities outside the larger European capitals. Over the next few weeks, we will ask entrepreneurs in these cities to talk about their ecosystems, in their own words. This is your chance to put Delft, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Utrecht on the Techcrunch…
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Copper, the world’s most important industrial metal, has traded above $10,000 for the first time in a decade as the rebound from the coronavirus pandemic unleashes a surge of demand from China and the developed world that could not be matched by supply. After a wobble in March due to concerns about fresh lockdowns in…
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Content is being delivered to Newsbank, Cengage, EBSCO using our NewsML export software. Daily Fintech recently signed contracts with three leading licensees which serve the educational market. These new relationships provide libraries, professors, students and other researchers access to the latest information and insights on the world of financial technology (Fintech). Investors know that the…
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Germany’s top court has demanded changes to Germany’s climate law, saying it places too much of a burden on future generations to reduce carbon emissions, in a key victory for young climate campaigners. The court said the law “violate[s] the freedoms of the complainants, some of whom are still very young” because it “irreversibly offload[s]…
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Not all art provides an investment return, but it has paid off handsomely for the Lees. The family behind Samsung will cover part of a staggering Won12tn ($11bn) inheritance tax bill by donating valuable paintings. How they will pay the rest of the bill triggered by the death of patriarch Lee Kun-hee is of greater…
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FT premium subscribers can click here to receive Trade Secrets by email. Hello from Brussels, where there’s quite a lot of attention on the US at the moment, what with Joe Biden’s sort-of-State-of-the-Union speech last night in which he strongly reiterated the Buy American theme. On that subject, an interesting announcement this week: the appointment…
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German startup Vivid Money has raised a new $73 million Series B funding round (€60 million) led by Greenoaks with existing investor Ribbit Capital also participating. Following today’s funding round, Vivid Money has reached a valuation of $436 million (€360 million). Vivid Money could be considered as a Revolut competitor designed specifically for the Eurozone.…
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important XBRL news stories from the last week. 1 The ESG interview: making climate data comparable IOSCO Chair Ashley Alder believes we’re in sight of “a real step change” in sustainability reporting. The IFRS Foundation’s climate-first approach to globally standardised sustainability reporting offers the most efficient path to…
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