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☆ Live Updates: Michael Cohen, Trump’s Ex-Fixer and His Nemesis, to Testify at His Trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Jonah E. Bromwich | Ben Protess | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +18 min

This week, however, Mr. Cohen is poised to unfix Mr. Trump’s life. And, on occasion, Mr. Cohen has said, Mr. Trump put Mr. Cohen on the phone with his wife, Melania, to reassure her that he hadn’t been unfaithful. Mr. Cohen was no longer a Trump Organization employee, and Mr. Trump had excluded him from a job in Washington. When one of Mr. Trump’s friends asked Mr. Trump why he kept Mr. Cohen so close, Mr. Trump replied, “He has his purpose.”Image In 2016, Mr. Cohen campaigned for Mr. Trump, but he did not get a job in the administration. At that meeting, Mr. Cohen has said, he and Mr. Trump confirmed their plan to falsify the records.

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☆ Mexican drug gangs ‘increasingly targeting’ Australia as meth supplies overtake rivals, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Drug cartels from North America have overtaken rivals in Southeast Asia to become Australia’s top suppliers of methamphetamine, police said, warning that Mexican gangs are “increasingly targeting” the country. Meanwhile, Southeast Asian meth fell to less than 15% of seizures of the drug, a highly addictive and potent stimulant. A wastewater detection program led by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission projected meth to be Australia’s second most used drug. In 2022, authorities stopped 1.8 tons of liquid meth masquerading as coconut water in Hong Kong before it reached Australia. They were bound for New Zealand, Australia and the surrounding Pacific region, police said.

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The nearly monthlong trial, in courtroom 26A in downtown Manhattan, of one-time crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was courtroom drama. The line to get into the courthouse could start as early as 11:30 p.m. the night before, and, on some days, courtroom slots were claimed by 4:30 a.m. Anyone who didn’t make it into the courtroom could watch the action on TV screens in overflow rooms. There, it could get rowdy, with laughing or heckling in response to witness testimony.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Fried Locations: Manhattan

☆ European Union agrees post-Brexit rules for hedge funds
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Nell Mackenzie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) - The European Union said on Thursday it has reached a deal on revising its rules for managers of hedge funds and other alternative investments, easing industry fears of a post-Brexit crackdown on managers in London. Representatives of EU states and the European Parliament reached the deal overnight to update the bloc's Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) rules that cover investments in hedge funds, private equity, private debt funds and real estate funds. Under the agreement, European asset managers will have to disclose more details to regulators about their investments with private funds in the United States, Britain and other non-EU countries. But it stops short of toughening up "delegation" rules for managers outside the EU that pick assets for funds listed in the bloc. The agreement includes new rules on funds that issue new loans, including higher requirements to keep money aside to cope with liquidity demands in stressed markets.

Persons: Taggart Davis, Davis, Jiri Krol, AIMA, Deborah Zurkow, Nell Mackenzie, Huw Jones, Dhara Ranasinghe, Sharon Singleton Organizations: European Union, European, Investment, European Commission, Collective Investment, Securities, EU, Alternative Investment Management Association, Alternative Credit Council, Allianz Global Investors, Thomson Locations: London ., United States, Britain, London, Luxembourg, Dublin, Europe

☆ Here's the 25-page pitch deck a fintech helping Gen-Z shoppers get the best deals online used to attract investors like Paris Hilton, The Chainsmokers, and GV to back its $15 million Series A
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Paige Hagy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The startup scrapes users' emails for discounts and promotions, applying them at the point of sale. Checkmate is a savings app and web browser extension for Gen-Z online shoppers that pushes promotions and deals to the user at the right time. Checkmate utilizes machine learning and language processors to scrape users' emails for promotions and discounts from their favorite brands. Pall introduced Checkmate to other potential celebrity investors, including Paris Hilton, who participated in the Series A. Check out the 25-page deck Checkmate used to raise its $15 million Series A.

But the killings in Allen, coming after other recent mass shootings, has deepened her feeling that something has to be done. “I’m not totally against gun control, but they’re trying to control it for the wrong people. Mass shootings have not been,” Mr. Taggart said. “My first question would be, Why do we have mass shootings now? Mr. Abbott won by a wide margin.

☆ Adam Taggert's financial advice YouTube channel Wealthion has exploded to a monthly viewership in the millions in under 2 years. He explains why he's had such quick success — and what's next for the b
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Adam Taggart founded the YouTube channel Wealthion in April 2021. Adam Taggart, the founder of the financial education YouTube channel Wealthion, considers himself in a similar spot in the financial media landscape. Financial television outlets, he believes, aren't offering viewers the kind of mentally-nourishing content he thinks they need. But again, Taggart thinks his greatest strength is in providing a product that he believes viewers have a hard time finding elsewhere. "Wealthion was really born out of a desire to help the average American build wealth in a system that's kind of stacked against them," he said.

☆ The unraveling of fintech darling Vise
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

It was April, and more than two dozen salespeople who worked for the fintech startup Vise had been ordered to a multiday off-site at the W Hoboken hotel in New Jersey to share exhaustive reports on their performance. Even salespeople at bigger, established, top-tier investment-management firms typically wouldn't close $250 million in a year, multiple sales employees said. (K-means clustering is an unsupervised machine-learning algorithm often referred to as a form of AI, Vise's founders said). (Vise's founders disputed this, saying the company received updated financial data only once a day for its portfolio-construction engine.) And to address its "leaky funnel" of overestimating prospective sales, Vise was to stop outreach to new clients while it onboards and upsells to existing clients, the document said.

☆ Former Fox execs conspired to bribe FIFA officials, prosecution witness says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Jack Queen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

(Reuters) - An Argentine businessman testified on Wednesday that two former 21st Century Fox executives and a sports marketing company conspired with him to bribe South American soccer officials and secure lucrative broadcasting rights. FILE PHOTO: Businessman Alejandro Burzaco (R) of Argentina arrives at the Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York, September 18, 2015. Burzaco said that he, Lopez and Martinez collectively paid up to $32 million in bribes together. Full Play Group paid or committed to pay up to $90 million, he said. Lopez, Martinez and Full Play Group have pleaded not guilty to crimes including wire fraud and money laundering.

☆ Blended travel lets people switch from work to leisure with ease. Here's how hospitality and travel companies are accommodating this experience.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Insider Studios With Crowne Plaza Hotels | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

For business travelers, this means combining work with leisure or blended travel. Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts reimagined its hotel spaces, amenities, and service culture to help travelers flex between work and leisure. "Many other hospitality brands put the blend into bleisure, but at Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, we know the future is about flexibility." Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts"It's vital to provide these transitional moments for the new breed of connected traveler," Taggart said. Book your blended travel experience at Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts.

☆ Airbnb hosts are worrying about an 'Airbnbust.' Here's the main reason some short-term-rental owners are experiencing a rough patch.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

After factoring in expenses, she told her 1.75 million subscribers that she lost nearly $10,000 from June through September. Airbnb hosts in certain areas are experiencing booking slowdowns that some people are calling an "Airbnbust." Nixon told Insider that her tweet came after she'd noticed changing attitudes in posts in a 196,000-person Airbnb Superhosts Facebook group. Courtesy of Amy Nixon"I would say it's happened over the last several months," she told Insider. Nixon told Insider the slowdowns hosts have been seeing in recent years come from one main source: too much supply.

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