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The scrapping of third-party factcheckers and DEI policies came days after owner Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast and said workplaces require more ‘masculine energy’.Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images UK staff at Facebook owner Meta feel “concerned” and “let down” about the company’s decision to scrap factcheckers and diversity, equity and inclusion programmes, the trade … Read more

(Bloomberg) — Blackstone Inc.’s European private credit fund for high net-worth individuals, ECRED, is set to reach €1.5 billion ($1.53 billion) by month’s end, a threefold surge over the past year. Most Read from Bloomberg The growth underscores the rise in retail involvement for the $432 billion Blackstone Credit & Insurance unit, one of the … Read more

Crédit Agricole S.A. provides retail, corporate, insurance, and investment banking products and services in France and internationally. It operates through French Retail Banking – Regional Banks; French Retail Banking – LCL; International Retail Banking; Asset Gathering; Large Customers; and Specialised Financial Services segments. The company offers banking products and services, finance, savings, wealth management, payment, … Read more

Crédit Agricole S.A. provides retail, corporate, insurance, and investment banking products and services in France and internationally. It operates through French Retail Banking – Regional Banks; French Retail Banking – LCL; International Retail Banking; Asset Gathering; Large Customers; and Specialised Financial Services segments. The company offers banking products and services, finance, savings, wealth management, payment, … Read more

(Bloomberg) — Poland’s central bank refrained from cutting interest rates for another month as policymakers’ rhetoric turned more hawkish despite a softer-than-expected inflation print in December. Most Read from Bloomberg The Monetary Policy Council kept its benchmark at 5.75% on Thursday — the level where it’s been since late 2023 — in line with the … Read more

By Stefania Spezzati and Ariane Luthi LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Labor granted UBS a waiver the Swiss bank needs to continue managing U.S. retirement plans after a paperwork error had put the $11 billion of assets the lender oversees at risk, documents show. After a five-month review, the U.S. agency said in … Read more

Fed governor Christopher Waller, seen in February 2020, said he could support a rate cut in the first half of the year (Sarah Silbiger) The US Federal Reserve could cut rates three or four times this year if inflation data cooperates, with a first cut possible before July, a senior bank official said Thursday. Headline … Read more

(Bloomberg) — UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a series of local probes into so-called child grooming gangs just weeks after the billionaire Elon Musk ramped up pressure on the government to hold a national inquiry into the decades-old issue. Most Read from Bloomberg Cooper told the House of Commons on Thursday she’d asked Louise … Read more