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...the envy of the world, is dwindling. I shall hand it over to those of you who can demonstrate their strategy for adapting to the new environment.” ...lamento]], who is in charge of [[compliance]], and the hapless [[Triago]], who is [[general counsel]]. Also present is [[Jeremiah Nuncle|Nuncle]], the Que

...tempt, by the [[Children of the Woods]], progenitors of the [[First Men]], those valiant but somehow feral predecessors to the latter-day crusading knights ...t these were not the humdrum, process-oriented, detail-obsessed boxwallahs who now run ISDA. These were capricious, flipsy, okay maybe a bit ''bookish'' r

...e beneficial owner is the person (and in most cases, it’s the same person) who has the effective benefit of the asset: not just its economic risks and rew ...al ownership is a “[[creature of equity]]”. One should not confuse it with those creatures of statute, the [[corporation]]: A [[shareholder]] is ''not'' the

...void where her intricate [[hermeneutic]] system runs out of rope<ref>“She who fights monsters should be careful lest she ''becomes'' a monster. And if yo

...ector, Roger Ng, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Leissner, who pled guilty and testified against Ng, is awaiting sentencing.<ref>[https://

...ce of the [[anal paradox]], but serves no purpose to [[Legal Eagle|those]] who have not embarked upon the noble pursuit of prolixity. ...stares morosely at his brogues, silently cursing the wasted shoe-polish in those nasty little holes|rises briskly, causing his chair to scrape flatulently o

...re of success in life, of course, is “being alive”, and on that dimension, those of us on whom the midwife ''has'' attended but the reaper has ''not'', are But it is equally offensive to those upset by {{author|Jordan Peterson}} and his fondness for pointing out how h

...t notice? Whose trick? ''What'' trick? Introduce her beauty before we know who she is. ...fancies Julia but knows he has no chance. We’ve got that. We also need to know — maybe? — they’re brainy nerds. This is not the time.

The arrangements must be such that the persons who are to participate (“'''participants'''”) do not have day-to-day contro issued by a single [[issuer]] who is not a body corporate and which are guaranteed by the government of the U

...|Out of my cold dead hands.}}}}''Author’s note. I mean no slight on people who buy tinned lentils. Personally, I quite like them.'' ...with what happens when apparently harmless [[normal distribution]]s, like those governing the purchase of lentils, reveal themselves not to be so normal af

...ght leader]] on hand to declare, “Right. That’s it. Human usefulness as we know it is over. We are all going to become machines”? Not as far as we know. There probably was, but his hot take was buried in the irresistible torren

The order’s goals were to promote the interests of all those with a fascination for chasing balls, standing around fires, hunting, fishi ...ment, wage all-out war for the simple pleasure of dominating any other men who so much as look at them in a funny way.

...north face of the Eiger, named after German climber Andreas Hinterstoisser who, in 1936, formed part of a four-man team making the second attempt to scale

There is, it is said, no human alive who knows every step in the manufacturing process of even the humble pin. ...ufficiently articulated as to be [[boring]] should be assigned to an agent who is fast, accurate and not easily bored, but incurious and unimaginative.

...insidious brain drain the moment we get there. “Wait. Where are you going? Who will tell me what to do?” ...iple. (There may be an exception for uncommonly dull people in hotels with those high-tech self-flushing loos you find in Japan, but even here someone reall

[[VWAP]] is often used as a trading benchmark by investors who aim to be as passive as possible in their execution. Many [[pension funds]]

...inutes<ref>Properly dirty these are. I couldn’t begin to tell you.</ref> — who spend long London evenings staring out into the dank gloom, longing for the Now financiers are partial to absurd boondoggles. We know this: [[gardening leave]]; [[corporate entertainment]]; [[Business day conv

For example, a broker who handles its client’s order flow and executes on exchange accumulates a lo

...vatives|turpitude swap]]”, as he called it, was designed for fund managers who, like his buddies, rode the eco-wave with lazy public commitments to [[envi Those carefree days collapsed into press intrusion, performative cavity searches

...stooges and patsies abound amongst mid-ranking [[subject matter expert]]s who are, as {{author|Sidney Dekker}} comprehensively catalogues,<ref>{{fieldgui ...le, of course, not unheard of — are the exception not the rule: most folks who show up are earnest, want to do a solid day’s graft, be recognised for it