TheGuardian

APRIL 24, 2021

The bank and its outspoken CEO are no stranger to controversy but the ill-fated ESL plan perhaps is in another league The European Super League (ESL) was touted as the only way for elite football clubs to “recover” from the coronavirus pandemic, and “make people dream” about the beautiful game again. The €3.25bn (£2.8bn) deal also stood to make JP Morgan Chase, the US investment bank providing the funding, about £2m a week in interest payments for 23 years under the terms of the contract – makin

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Bussman Advisory

APRIL 24, 2021

FinTech Ecosystem Insights by Bussmann Advisory is our weekly newsletter with over 28’000 subscribers, summarizing relevant news and reports related to ecosystems around disruptive technologies, highlighting key updates from the industry as well as our portfolio companies: Mastercard to buy digital ID firm Ekata for $850m Amazon is bringing palm-scanning payment system to supermarkets Goldman Sachs invests $69 million in British digital bank Starling.

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TheGuardian

APRIL 24, 2021

Joe Biden is about to shake up US taxation policy. The UK must hope that the chancellor feels a need to emulate him The differences couldn’t be more stark. Promises to “build back better” from Covid-19 have been made on both sides of the Atlantic. But as lockdown measures are steadily relaxed, President Joe Biden is showing far greater ambition than Boris Johnson’s government when it comes to shaping the post-pandemic recovery.

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