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            <title><![CDATA[How Late Payments to Vendors Spawned a New Business]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Oliver Telling]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 04:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oligarch’s Yacht Leaves Questions About Burford in its Wake]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[What’s Vendor Finance? Why Do Some Call It Bullying?]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Oliver Telling]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2019 04:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An employee counts a stack of U.S. one hundred dollar bills inside a currency exchange center in Mexico City, Mexico, on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Mexico’s peso rose for the first time in three days on July 11 after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke called for maintaining a U.S. stimulus program that has boosted demand for the Latin American country’s securities. Photographer: Susana Gonzalez</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[German Entrepreneur Bets on Meghan Markle's Go-To Fashion Brand]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beardsworth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:39:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Orcel Considers Starting a Boutique, Risking Millions of His UBS Pay]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sonali Basak]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2019 17:07:48 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Andrea Orcel Photographer: Jason Alden</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Banks Exposed to Possible Loan Market Tumult, BIS Says]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beardsworth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2019 10:30:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[H2O Asset Management Founder Defends 'Deep Value' Fund]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beardsworth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2019 06:50:02 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Bruno Crastes, left, and Vincent Chailley speak in the video posted to the company’s website. Photographer: Hall, Tom</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Natixis H2O Fund Controversy Hangs on an Arcane Definition]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:52:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Natixis’s H2O Marks Down Bond Assets to Avoid Woodford Fate]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Lucca de Paoli]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2019 05:32:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Regulators Alarmed by Risky Loans, But Don’t Know Who Holds Them]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sally Bakewell]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>U.S. one-hundred dollar banknotes are arranged for a photograph in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, April 15, 2019. China&apos;s holdings of Treasury securities rose for a third month as the Asian nation took on more U.S. government debt amid the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thomas Cook Rebounds on Report of Triton Interest in Nordic Arm]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-23/thomas-cook-tumbles-on-downgrade-showing-default-is-possible</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beardsworth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2019 08:57:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The first known case of humans going to court over investment losses triggered by autonomous machines will test the limits of liability.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-06/who-to-sue-when-a-robot-loses-your-fortune</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beardsworth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 00:00:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.K. Regulator Drops Big Companies From Responsible-Payment List]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beardsworth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:57:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[London Banker Breakups May Get Easier With No-Fault Divorce]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Will Mathis]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 07:29:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brexit Jobs Spur Dublin Real Estate Boom]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beardsworth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Residential properties stand in the Ballsbridge area in Dublin, Ireland, on Monday, June 4, 2018. Companies are expanding in Dublin rather than the U.K. in a &quot;silent Brexit,&quot; according to Hibernia REIT Plc boss Kevin Nowlan.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swiss Firm Tries to Stem Fallout From $11 Billion Liquidation]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Winters]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 05:23:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Credit Suisse Seeks to Seize Oil Trader's Three London Homes]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beardsworth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:30:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A row of mews houses are seen in the London area of Belgravia, in London, U.K., on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. London luxury homes won&apos;t rise in value next year for the first time since 2008 as proposals to extend property transaction taxes deter buyers, Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. said.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.K. Police Fire on Car That Rammed Ukrainian Envoy's Vehicle]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beardsworth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2019 15:13:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Julian Assange Extradition Could Take Months, or Even Years]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Beardsworth]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:00:15 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 11: Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England. After weeks of speculation Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by Scotland Yard Police Officers inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in Central London this morning. Ecuador&apos;s President, Lenin Moreno, withdrew Assange&apos;s Asylum after seven years citing repeated violations to international conventions. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Assange Arrested on U.S. Charges After Ecuador Drops Asylum]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Browning]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:42:40 GMT</pubDate>
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