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Post-Brexit London races to keep its head-start in fintech

  Bloomberg At the 600-year-old Guildhall in the City of London, key players in a two-decade-old industry looking to remake finance are gathering. Innovate Finance’s summit — part of UK Fintech Week — aims to showcase Britain’s financial technology sector and its global ambitions. Its profile has never been higher, with soaring demand from both customers and investors — even ...

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Consumer borrowing in US rises by record $41.8bn in February

  Bloomberg US consumer borrowing surged in February by the most on record, reflecting outsized increases in both credit-card balances and non-revolving loans. Total credit jumped $41.8 billion from the prior month after a revised $8.9 billion gain in January, Federal Reserve figures showed. The increase exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists. On an annualised basis, borrowing ...

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BMW, Volkswagen suppliers face scrutiny over Xinjiang ties

  Bloomberg Some of the world’s biggest automakers are linked through their suppliers to labour programs in China’s Xinjiang region that experts have flagged as coercive, according to a new report by Horizon Advisory, a ..-based consultancy. The concerns center around the production of aluminum, raising questions for another key industry about alleged human rights abuses in its supply chain. ...

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