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Metro Fails To Attract Investors To Bond Issue

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Metro Bank in the U.K. in London, and the financial institutions managing the deal even tried to reduce it to between 200 and 250 million pounds. Metro Bank PLC thanks the broad number of investors who have met with the company and shown interest in their potential inaugural MREL issuance,” the bank said.

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Metro Bank UK: 2023’s Next Bank Collapse? | Samsung’s Trackable Card Unveiled | UBS Tests Tokenized Fund on Public Blockchain

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This week’s must-know stories: Metro Bank’s Financial Struggles: Will Metro Bank in the UK be 2023’s next banking collapse? UK’s Metro Bank shares plummeted by 31% following reports of its urgent need to raise funds to stabilize its finances. Tokenizing funds can enhance liquidity and market access.

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Car Talk: Shift Announces Plans To Go Public

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IAC will change its name to Shift as the transaction proceeds and the Shift management team of CEO and Co-Founder George Arison and Co-CEO Toby Russell will stay in place. “We Arison said the move was about adding capital to scale the company. Securing that capital is even more complicated than the IAC merger.

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Bitcoin Daily: China Debuts Blockchain-Backed Subway eInvoices; Bitcoin’s Crypto Market Majority On The Decline

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Bitcoin’s share of the total cryptocurrency market is close to falling below 50 percent for the first time in over seven months. percent of the market’s total capitalization, falling to a low of 50.54 Before 2017, bitcoin held more than 70 percent of the market — but that was before new cryptos came on the scene.

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Online B2B Marketplaces See New Funding Rounds 

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million in venture capital. As reported by The Business Times , in Singapore, Tin Men Capital, a venture capital firm focused on B2B tech startups, led a $5 million Series A funding round to invest in RateIt. Ratelt operates as a real-time customer experience management platform, according to reports. ShopKirana.

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Rising Delivery Costs Drives Houlihan’s Restaurant To Chapter 11

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York Capital Management and Mike Archer, a former president of Applebee’s and TGI Fridays, bought Houlihan’s in 2015 and now blames the chapter 11 filing on a number of factors, including expensive leases, a tight labor market and “the rapid growth in costly third-party delivery.”. Documents filed in U.S.

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High-Profile — But Secretive — Funding For B2B FinTechs

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For startups, 2016 wasn’t the best year in venture capital. VCs used 2016 to manage costs, set priorities and valuations,” explained Rahul Khanna, managing partner at Trifecta Capital, in an interview with Business Standard published Wednesday (Dec. They need to manage the burn, drift and cut losses.”.

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