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Goldman Gets Green Light To Operate Bank In South Africa

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South African regulators also approved Goldman Sachs for a bank operation license as the firm strives for growth in the most liquid and sophisticated economy on the continent. Africa’s working-age population is anticipated to go up to nearly one billion by 2030, up from 705 million in 2018, according to the African Development Bank.

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‘Ghost’ Kitchens Take A Bigger Role In Food Delivery

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As restaurants continue to wrestle with the questions that come with food delivery — how to make enough money, whether to work with third-party operators, how to manage customer relationships — a new factor is gaining significance. million in fresh capital, a funding round that comes after one in May that brought it about $7.9

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Facebook's Libra Hires HSBC Veteran As Managing Director

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The Libra Association has named James Emmett as managing director of Libra Networks, the association’s operating company subsidiary. Emmett previously was the top executive of HSBC Bank plc and Europe, where he was responsible for HSBC's UK Wholesale Bank and operations across Continental Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Bermuda.

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Virgin Galactic To Become First Listed Human Spaceflight Company

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Special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. The spaceflight company sees the arrangement as providing it with sufficient capital for funding until the time its spaceships have the ability to operate commercial and churn a profit.

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Goldman Joins South Africa’s Johannesburg Stock Exchange

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South African regulators also approved Goldman Sachs for a bank operation license as the firm strives for growth in the most liquid and sophisticated economy on the continent. Africa’s working-age population is anticipated to go up to nearly one billion by 2030, up from 705 million in 2018, according to the African Development Bank.

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Want To Build A 630M, 10 Country Financial Services Ecosystem? Here’s What Grab Did

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As one can imagine, those small-scale businessmen and women are ridesharing drivers who often work long hours every day to earn income to support their families and businesses — and save up in hopes of taking total ownership of their operations. The only way Grab can grow is if the markets and countries we operate in grow,” he said.

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Simon?Drops $3.6B Mall Deal, Sues Taubman Centers

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Simon’s announcement came on the same day Jan Kniffen, a former executive of the May Department Stores, which was folded into Macy’s, revised his prediction that one-third of the nation’s 1,000 malls would shutter by 2030. Now, Kniffen thinks that will happen by next year, CNBC reported.

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