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Sam Schlimper is the Managing Director at Randstad, the largest HR service provider in the world. Largely anchored in talent acquisition, she has over two decades of experience working with global organizations to link human potential, AI, and measurable outcomes. Over the years, Sam has witnessed countless leaders struggle with a trade-off mindset, treating business success as a zero-sum game. Determined to change this, she advocates for an alternative system where all stakeholders thrive—proving that mutual success drives sustainable business growth.Sam Schlimper is a global talent strategy leader currently serving as Managing Director at Randstad Enterprise. Prior to Randstad, she was the former head of Talent Acquisition at Barclays Plc.In this episode, Dart and Sam discuss:- What leaders should focus on vs. what they do - The major forces shaping Talent Acquisition- 3 main types of engagement with AI- Using pixelation to rethink job roles- Discovering the internal motivators of employees- Designing work for neurodiversity- And other topics…Sam Schlimper is a global talent strategy leader currently serving as Managing Director at Randstad Enterprise. With over two decades of experience, Sam has led various talent acquisition teams including being the former head of Talent Acquisition at Barclays Plc. Passionate about aligning people, processes, and technology, Sam partners with global organizations to unlock human potential and deliver measurable outcomes. Her leadership combines talent strategy with AI-driven insights to simplify processes, enhance engagement, and create sustainable organizational performance—all with a focus on fostering joy at work.Connect with Sam: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-schlimper-387861/ Randstad: https://www.randstadenterprise.com/insights/authors/sam-schlimper/Work with Dart:Dart is the CEO and co-founder of the work design firm 11fold. Build work that makes employees feel alive, connected to their work, and focused on what's most important to the business. Book a call at 11fold.com.

Today on the show we speak to Daniel Hanna, Global Head of Sustainable Finance for the Corporate & Investment Bank at Barclays Plc. On the show we discuss Daniel's views on COP28 and climate investments globally, as well as his personal background and work in the sector. Finally, he speaks on what Barclays is doing to accelerate decarbonisation efforts and unlock climate financing solutions. Daniel has long been a pioneer in innovative financing solutions to deliver social & environmental impact, having previously worked at Standard Chartered were he developed some of the first blended finance bond products to address issues such as water access and education, as well as supporting the NEOM project to raise its first financing. At Barclays, Daniel plays a key role in helping the bank to deliver on its ambition to enable $1trillion of Sustainable and Transition Financing between 2023 and the end of 2030. This is supported through several areas including Barclays internal £500mn Principal Investments arm, which provides growth capital to leading innovators in clean energy such as GeoPura, ZeroAvia, Protium, Zedify, Naked energy and many more. Barclays has also designed new products, including an innovative structured debt product that enabled a $300mn facility with EV services provider Einride, as well as helping companies in their corporate financing journey by providing investment banking support for fund raises such as Ohmium's $200mn capital raise through TPG rise. All this and more we cover in the show as Daniel lays out how he sees Barclays as a leading provider of financing solutions for the clean energy space.---Linkshttps://home.barclays/news/press-releases/2022/daniel-hanna-joins-barclays-as-global-head-of-sustainable-financ/https://www.barclays.co.uk/sustainability/#:~:text=Setting%20a%20target%20to%20facilitate,and%20the%20end%20of%202030 https://trans.info/einride-secures-an-additional-500-million-in-funding-316547

Welcoming Philippa Charles, head of the Garfield Weston Foundation, to Purposely, where she shares their unique approach to funding as well as her personal journey of turning her back on a corporate career to lead a charitable foundation. The Garfield Weston Foundation is not just any foundation; it has become one of the most generous and progressive family foundations in the UK. Since its inception in 1958, the foundation has donated close to a billion pounds to good causes in the UK, granting between seventy and hundred million pounds annually. Despite the size and importance of the foundation's financial resources, Philippa Charles, its leader, is known for her accessibility, humility, and empathy. She is renowned for being a straight talker and has a desire to keep things simple. The foundation was set up by the Weston Family to benefit from the proceeds of their successful businesses, which include well-known brands in the food industry. These brands range from high-end retail, such as Fortnum and Mason, to household staples like Tip Top Ice Cream in New Zealand. To ensure the support of the voluntary sector and provide opportunities for success, 80% of the Weston Family's wealth was put into a trust called Whittington Investments. This decision meant billions of pounds were dedicated to benefiting the UK in perpetuity.  Despite the significant amount of funding they provide, the foundation operates with a small team of eleven people although they have the support of the other Weston businesses. Their funding decisions are guided by their ethos rather than strict criteria, focusing on making the biggest impact in the short and long terms. Twelve years ago, Philippa made the family charter public, which outlines their ethos of being flexible, responsive, and adapting to needs. This decision to openly share their charter with the Third Sector was seen as unique and transformative. The foundation's decision-making process is informally guided by the Three C's: capacity, capability, and confidence. They consider an organisation's ability to deliver on their charitable mission, with confidence being a vital but often overlooked factor. The themes that guide the foundation's grant-making are broad, covering areas such as arts and culture, education, environment, youth, heritage, welfare, and faith-based organizations. They fund both revenue and capital costs, including core and administrative expenses. The foundation takes pride in its hands-off approach, allowing the charities they support to decide how to spend the funds. The foundation strongly believes those closest to their communities are best suited to develop solutions and approaches to address those needs. In addition to her role at the foundation, Philippa has held positions at Barclays Plc, Ernst & Young, and JM Consulting. She demonstrates her commitment to empowering women by serving as a Trustee of SmartWorks, an organization dedicated to helping women secure meaningful employment. She also oversees the Nominations Committee. Overall, Philippa Charles and the Garfield Weston Foundation have made a significant impact in the UK through their unique approach to funding and their commitment to supporting the voluntary sector. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mark-longbottom2/message

On today's podcast: 1) The first truce since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted last month went into effect on Friday morning. The deal came after weeks of complex and delicate talks brokered by Qatar, the US and Egypt. The halt in fighting in Gaza is intended to last for four days. Hamas, an Iran-backed militant group, is meant to return 50 of the almost 240 hostages it captured from Israel, while the Israelis will release 150 jailed Palestinians and allow more aid into Gaza. 2) The Canadian mayor of Niagara Falls, Jim Diodati, said the Rainbow Bridge is expected to reopen in a day or two, after a car explosion that killed two people shuttered the busy crossing between the US and Canada. 3) Barclays Plc is working on plans to reduce costs by as much as $1.3 billion over several years, which could involve slashing as many as 2,000 jobs, according to Reuters.   Full transcript:|Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm John Tucker. Here are these stories we're following today. The first group of Israeli hostages is expected to leave the Gaza Strip soon in a deal that's meant to return fifty of the nearly two hundred and forty captives that Hamas took from Israel. Israel plans to release one hundred and fifty jailed Palestinians. All involved are women and people under the age of nineteen. This stop in fighting is intended to last for four days. It marks the first major lull in this war since it began October seventh. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who says the military offensive will go on after that. We hope to get this first tronch out and then we're committed to getting everyone out, but we'll continue with our fore aims namly to eradicate Kamas, because Kamas has already promised that they will do this again and again and again. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who says he has delivered that same message in a phone call to President Biden. We had along with a hostage release, the deal will also allow for more AID into Gaza. Bloomberg's owner Aunt says the humanitarian aid is critical for the people at Gaza. The very first trucks that went in we're carrying cooking gas, which obviously is very critical for more than two million people are currently living in Gaza in what the UN calls a dire humanitarian situation. Bloomberg's owner Aunt reports Palestinians were emerging from temporary shelters and crowded the streets as southern Gaza as the AID trucks entered. Back in the US, we want to bring you update from the events that unfolded on the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls this week. New York Governor Kathy Hochel says that bridge is back open after a car explosion on Wednesday killed two people and closed that crossing between the US and Canada. Hockel says there is no sign of terrorism so far. She adds a suspect of ties to Western New York has been identified. Investigation will determine if the blast was intentional or an accident. The holiday shopping season kicks into full swing today, with shoppers searching for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Deloitte Saniel Thanksgiving survey. He finds consumers plan on spending and average almost five hundred and seventy dollars on both days. That's up thirteen percent from last year. And Bert Flickinger managed Rector with Strategic Resource Groups. As shoppers are feeling confident, however, they're using a new tool this shopping season. It's going to be by now, pay later. Fifteen percent of all purchases will be that way, and consumers are still taking on credit card debt, but sixty three percent of consumers will be buying with debit card and trying to put less on credit as interest rates have climbed and the average household has seventeen thousand and revolving unpaid credit card debt. Bert Flickinger with Strategic Resource Groups. As many consumers plan to do much of the shopping during Black Friday and Cyber Monday in order with their spending limits, traders are going to be following the traditional kickoff of the holiday shopping season today as well as SMP Global Manufacturing PMI data that comes after the Eco data dump we saw on Wednesday. It showed a drop in jobless claims and expectations that inflation will climb from the University of Michigan sentiment poll. The bond market is open till two pm Wall Street time today, and the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq close at one and we're also following financial news in Europe this morning. Starting in the banking sector, Barkley's aiming to reduce costs by as much as one point three billion dollars over the next several years and could cut up to two thousand back office jobs that's about two percent of its workforce. This according to a report from Reuter's. Bloomberg's Jenny Serdaine says investors are looking for a renewed strategy after a disappointing third quarter. I think a lot of this is driven by investors just really being unhappy with how this company has been run. And so you've got you know, vin Kata Krishnan, their CEO, who's really looking at trying to take some big, bold moves here and promising that he's going to have a strategy update that will really make clear how to bring Barklays out of this position that they're in. Bloomberg's Jenny Strain says Barkleys could make more cuts in other areas outside the back office. Barkley's share is down about eleven and a half percent this year, and checking those shares now John they're up about a half percent in the pre market in London. Staying in Europe, the economic picture is getting darker in Germany. The German government is suspending a constitutional limit on net new borrowing for a fourth straight year as it struggles to recover from an energy induced downturn last winter. This move to lift the so called debt break will be part of a revised twenty twenty three budget. Chancellor Olof Schultz's government was forced into a radical budget overhaul after a ruling last week from the nation's top court. And turning to Asia, the Chinese government ramping up pressure on banks to support struggling real estate developers. Bloomberg's David English has more we here, trying to may allow banks to offer unsecured short term loans to qualified developers for the first time. These so called working capital loans would offer funds for day to day operations. The loans are different from other types of debt that require land or assets as collateral. We reported that authorities are finalizing this list of developers eligible for that aid. Sources say the list includes Country Garden and sign a Ocean Group. Country Garden shares jump twenty four percent yesterday on word that it was included in that list in Hong Kong. I'm David Ingliss Bloomberg Radio. Okay, David, thanks to earlier this week, oh Peck plus pushback and gathering to finalize output levels for next year by four days to November thirtieth. Now, the group says that meeting will take place online and now it's time to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world with Bloomberg's Michael Barr. Good Morning, Michael, Good Morning, Nathan and Ireland. Violent clashes broke out in central Dublin after a five year old girl was seriously injured in a NiFe attack that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized. Police and the attack happened near a school. Soon after, at least one hundred people took to the street, some armed with metal bars. Police said. Over four hundred officers, including many and riot gear were deployed in Dublin city center to contain the unrest. The head of the Irish Police Guarded Commissioner Drew Harris. We have a complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far right ideology, and also then this disruptive tendency here engaged in serious violence. Commissioner Harris says a person of interest, a man in his fifties, was arrested at the scene. New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in nineteen ninety three. The three page legal document does not contain details of the alleged assault. Adams denied the allegations absolutely not true. You know, I would never do anything to anyone, and it's just really say, you know, my career speaks for itself. The suit comes just hours before New York's Adult Survivor's Act expires, which eliminates the statute of limitations for accusers of sexual abuse to come forward. The filing seeks a trial and five million dollars in relief. Evacuation orders have been lifted near the scene of a tank or train derailment in eastern Kentucky. The trains operator CSXAS sixteen cars went off the rails Wednesday afternoon near the small town of Livingstone, Dustin Heiser with Kentucky Emergency management throughout this entire event. The safety of the public has been our number one concern. The derailment sent dangerous fumes into the air. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterrees is visiting Antarctica just before the COP twenty eight climate talks begin. Gu Terras called the continent's warming devastating warming air and ocean temperatures are causing Antarctic ice to melt. Global News twenty four hours a day and whenever you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg Ninth It him Michael. Thanks. You can get much more Bloomberg on your dashboard with the new Bloomberg Business App featuring Apple Car Play and Android Auto. You get access to every Bloomberg podcast, live audio feeds from Bloomberg Radio, even print stories in audio form from Bloomberg News. Download it from the Apple App Store or Google Play. Connect your phone to your car and get started with the Bloomberg Business App. Presented by our sponsor, Interactive Brokers. Time now for the Bloomberg Sports Update, brought to you by tri State Outing. Good morning, Nathan, the NFL at the triple header on Thanksgiving, the Packers knocking off the lines in Game one twenty nine to twenty two of the Cowboys dominated the Commanders in Game two opics and stays in the block. That's to late on Hawker. Is that bliand news gott it you streaking out the sideline? He's not hol depeat. If he does, he's gonna play the record of a gain. He slipped through three Commanders defenders at clinics at out and he scores. That is his fifth fix six of the season. That's courtesy of the Cowboys Radio Network, Dallas dominating the Commanders forty five to ten in Dallas, while in Game three is the forty nine Ers all over the Seattle Seahawks thirty one to thirteen. Coming up today, kick off at three pm Eastern Time at Mettlife Stadium in New Jersey. It's the New York Jets hosting the Dolphins. New York comes in losers of three straight. End has made a quarterback change as Tim Boyle takes over for Zach Wilson. Offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackid talking about Boyle, he has an unbelievable knowledge of the system. He has a tenacity when it comes to his preparation. I mean, he NonStop, from everything from every single drawing to every single thing on the game sheet. He prepares truly like a starter and has since day one. That's courtesy of ny Jets dot Com. In the NBA, a more in season tournament action. Today, the Knicks are home for the Heat. The Celtics on the road of the Magic. It's the Wizards playing at the Milwaukee Bucks. The Warriors are hosting the San Antonio Spurs. That's your Bloomberg Sports update. I'm Dan Schwarzman from coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington, DC, nationwide on SYRIASXAM, the Bloomberg Business app, and Bloomberg dot Com. This is Bloomberg Daybreak. Good morning, I'm Nathan Hager. We continue to monitor developments in the Middle East, where the first pause in fighting between Israel and Hummas in more than six weeks appears to be holding, and it comes after weeks of delicate talks aimed at releasing some of the nearly two hundred and forty hostages that HUMMAS captured in the deadly October seventh attack on Israel. For more, we are joined by Bloomberg's Henry Mayer, who is part of our team of reporters who has been covering this war in the Gaza strip since it began. Henry, good morning. Get us up to speed on developments thus far are since it does look as though this truth is underway and does appear to be holding. Yes, good morning. Well, the truth started at about seven o'clock in the morning local time, and they haven't been any indications of any violations. And you know the importance next stage is going to be the release of thirteen hostages which are being held in Gaza currently. That is expected at four pm local time, and on the same day at thirty nine Palestinian prisoners. All of these are women and people aged under the age of nineteen children in the case of the hostages, and in the prisons you're looking at youths aged under nineteen. So you know, I can't stress how difficult this process has been to even get where we are today. It took weeks of very very difficult diplomacy, secret diplomacy. It broke down at certain stages. But of course, you know the problem is that it's for four days only today have been for the Gaza residents two point one million of them who've been living under daily bombardment for almost seven weeks. Today they finally came out, They left the shelter, they were able to walk around. But of course, at the back of their minds is they know that this arrangement may only last for four days, could be extended up to ten. But we don't know that yet. Before we get to what comes after, we do need to continue to discuss what comes in the midst of this pause. Part of this deal was to get more humanitarian aid into Gaza as well. Have we seen signs of progress there? Yes, we have. You know, there are trucks which are entering through the border with Egypt, the Rapha crossing. We understand from HOMAS officials border officials they expect two hundred trucks to enter Gaza today. This is significantly more than has been allowed to Gaza in recent weeks, but it's still much less than used to come prior to the war, five hundred a day. So the amount of aid that Gaza needs, you know, is way more than what is going to becoming in the next few days. But obviously it's a step in the right direction. And what about the distribution of that aid, because We've heard reports from the United Nations and other non governmental organizations in the area that they have suffered through these bombardments over the last several weeks as well. I mean, what's the difficulty in getting aid into and distributed through Gaza when we've seen so much destruction over the last several weeks. Well, obviously one of the greatest difficulties is the fact that you have an active war zone and it's extremely dangerous to move around. Secondly, there's an acute lack of fuel, so Israel imposed a complete blockade on fuel deliveries initially, and in the recent a week or so it has been allowing in very small quantities of fuel to be used only by the United Nations for transportation purposes. But the quantities of fuel coming in the UNSA that they're completely inadequate for its operations. So yeah, that is something which is still a big problem in the time we have left, Henry, Let's talk about what comes after this pause. We did hear from Israel's Prime Minister, and we've heard from him several times that he does not want the war to end even after this pause expires, but he is under a lot of pressure, particularly from the United States to at least change some of the conduct of this war. What can we expect going forward. I mean, I think that the pressure is only going to increase, and it's not only international pressure, and you mentioned the United States, that's very important. At the same time, there's a domestic issue here, the issue of the hostages. Two hundred and forty were taken into Gaza until now only a handful have been released. Fifty are going to be set free over the next four days. Some of these people are going to be giving interviews, They are going to you know, the public awareness of the hostagism and the kind of conditions in which they are living in Gaza is going to be accentuated, and I think that is going to be something that will weigh very heavily on the Israeli government. Probably not sufficient to get them to stop the conflict at this stage, but I think we are getting closer to that point. This is Bloomberg day Break Today, your morning brief on the stories making news from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. Look for us on your podcast feed by six am Easter each morning, on Apple's Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also listen live each morning starting at five am Wall Street Time, on Bloomberg eleven three to zero in New York, Bloomberg ninety nine to one in Washington, Bloomberg one six to one in Boston, and Bloomberg ninety sixty in San Francisco. Our flagship New York station is also available on your Amazon Alexa devices. Just say Alexa Play Bloomberg eleven thirty plus. Listen coast to coast on the Bloomberg Business app, Sirius xmb iHeartRadio app, and on Bloomberg dot Com. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm John Tucker. Join us again tomorrow morning for all the news you need to start your day right here on Bloomberg day BreakSee 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Recent scholarship in organisation studies has begun to address how organisations perceive and use their history. However, how organisations preserve and access their history, and how this affects how they are able to use their history is less researched. This thesis investigates how Barclays Group Archives (BGA) contribute to Barclays PLC delivering its strategic objectives. It asks, how does BGA, as a specific unit of the organisation, facilitate the delivery of Barclays PLC's strategic objectives? The researcher was embedded in the archives, enabling the gathering of observational data on how BGA operate as well as a unique level of access to archival organisational records. These were used to target and gain access to Barclays PLC employees to conduct interviews to ascertain how they used BGA's resources and what benefits they felt BGA brought.  Using interviews, observation, and other qualitative research methods, Ian Jones introduces archival science theory to the study of how organisations can benefit from using their history, introducing the archival science ideas of authenticity, reliability, usability, and integrity to inform the research on organisational memory and use of the past strategies. The thesis focuses on the period between 2012 and 2015, a time when Barclays PLC made extensive use of their past in an attempt to manage and recover from the various scandals. It argues that BGA, and the archivists in particular, are integral to Barclays PLC's use of the past strategies, enabling Barclays PLC to bolster their claims to be returning to a historically 'authentic' corporate culture that would inform the organisation's strategies and behaviour going forward. Additionally, the archivists themselves act as the link between the information in the archives that forms part of Barclays PLC's organisational memory, enabling users to utilise this information and transforming the static memory held into the archives into dynamic memory that is then utilised by employees. The thesis highlights the importance of how organisations access the historical information that they use to inform their historical narratives, and the importance of the individuals that act as the link between those who are using the past in some way, and the repositories of historical information. The research findings presented in this thesis will be of interest to organisation studies scholars interested in how managers use history as well as to researchers who study corporate archives. Winner of the Coleman Prize in 2022, this research tells of the potential uses of the past as a source of competitive advantage as well as document the relationship between the Corporate Archives and Head Office in a mayor, long-lived British bank. This thesis is available open access here.  Bernardo Batiz-Lazo is currently straddling between Newcastle and Mexico City. You can find him on twitter on issues related to business history of banking, fintech, payments and other musings. Not always in that order. @BatizLazo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Recent scholarship in organisation studies has begun to address how organisations perceive and use their history. However, how organisations preserve and access their history, and how this affects how they are able to use their history is less researched. This thesis investigates how Barclays Group Archives (BGA) contribute to Barclays PLC delivering its strategic objectives. It asks, how does BGA, as a specific unit of the organisation, facilitate the delivery of Barclays PLC's strategic objectives? The researcher was embedded in the archives, enabling the gathering of observational data on how BGA operate as well as a unique level of access to archival organisational records. These were used to target and gain access to Barclays PLC employees to conduct interviews to ascertain how they used BGA's resources and what benefits they felt BGA brought.  Using interviews, observation, and other qualitative research methods, Ian Jones introduces archival science theory to the study of how organisations can benefit from using their history, introducing the archival science ideas of authenticity, reliability, usability, and integrity to inform the research on organisational memory and use of the past strategies. The thesis focuses on the period between 2012 and 2015, a time when Barclays PLC made extensive use of their past in an attempt to manage and recover from the various scandals. It argues that BGA, and the archivists in particular, are integral to Barclays PLC's use of the past strategies, enabling Barclays PLC to bolster their claims to be returning to a historically 'authentic' corporate culture that would inform the organisation's strategies and behaviour going forward. Additionally, the archivists themselves act as the link between the information in the archives that forms part of Barclays PLC's organisational memory, enabling users to utilise this information and transforming the static memory held into the archives into dynamic memory that is then utilised by employees. The thesis highlights the importance of how organisations access the historical information that they use to inform their historical narratives, and the importance of the individuals that act as the link between those who are using the past in some way, and the repositories of historical information. The research findings presented in this thesis will be of interest to organisation studies scholars interested in how managers use history as well as to researchers who study corporate archives. Winner of the Coleman Prize in 2022, this research tells of the potential uses of the past as a source of competitive advantage as well as document the relationship between the Corporate Archives and Head Office in a mayor, long-lived British bank. This thesis is available open access here.  Bernardo Batiz-Lazo is currently straddling between Newcastle and Mexico City. You can find him on twitter on issues related to business history of banking, fintech, payments and other musings. Not always in that order. @BatizLazo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

Recent scholarship in organisation studies has begun to address how organisations perceive and use their history. However, how organisations preserve and access their history, and how this affects how they are able to use their history is less researched. This thesis investigates how Barclays Group Archives (BGA) contribute to Barclays PLC delivering its strategic objectives. It asks, how does BGA, as a specific unit of the organisation, facilitate the delivery of Barclays PLC's strategic objectives? The researcher was embedded in the archives, enabling the gathering of observational data on how BGA operate as well as a unique level of access to archival organisational records. These were used to target and gain access to Barclays PLC employees to conduct interviews to ascertain how they used BGA's resources and what benefits they felt BGA brought.  Using interviews, observation, and other qualitative research methods, Ian Jones introduces archival science theory to the study of how organisations can benefit from using their history, introducing the archival science ideas of authenticity, reliability, usability, and integrity to inform the research on organisational memory and use of the past strategies. The thesis focuses on the period between 2012 and 2015, a time when Barclays PLC made extensive use of their past in an attempt to manage and recover from the various scandals. It argues that BGA, and the archivists in particular, are integral to Barclays PLC's use of the past strategies, enabling Barclays PLC to bolster their claims to be returning to a historically 'authentic' corporate culture that would inform the organisation's strategies and behaviour going forward. Additionally, the archivists themselves act as the link between the information in the archives that forms part of Barclays PLC's organisational memory, enabling users to utilise this information and transforming the static memory held into the archives into dynamic memory that is then utilised by employees. The thesis highlights the importance of how organisations access the historical information that they use to inform their historical narratives, and the importance of the individuals that act as the link between those who are using the past in some way, and the repositories of historical information. The research findings presented in this thesis will be of interest to organisation studies scholars interested in how managers use history as well as to researchers who study corporate archives. Winner of the Coleman Prize in 2022, this research tells of the potential uses of the past as a source of competitive advantage as well as document the relationship between the Corporate Archives and Head Office in a mayor, long-lived British bank. This thesis is available open access here.  Bernardo Batiz-Lazo is currently straddling between Newcastle and Mexico City. You can find him on twitter on issues related to business history of banking, fintech, payments and other musings. Not always in that order. @BatizLazo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent scholarship in organisation studies has begun to address how organisations perceive and use their history. However, how organisations preserve and access their history, and how this affects how they are able to use their history is less researched. This thesis investigates how Barclays Group Archives (BGA) contribute to Barclays PLC delivering its strategic objectives. It asks, how does BGA, as a specific unit of the organisation, facilitate the delivery of Barclays PLC's strategic objectives? The researcher was embedded in the archives, enabling the gathering of observational data on how BGA operate as well as a unique level of access to archival organisational records. These were used to target and gain access to Barclays PLC employees to conduct interviews to ascertain how they used BGA's resources and what benefits they felt BGA brought.  Using interviews, observation, and other qualitative research methods, Ian Jones introduces archival science theory to the study of how organisations can benefit from using their history, introducing the archival science ideas of authenticity, reliability, usability, and integrity to inform the research on organisational memory and use of the past strategies. The thesis focuses on the period between 2012 and 2015, a time when Barclays PLC made extensive use of their past in an attempt to manage and recover from the various scandals. It argues that BGA, and the archivists in particular, are integral to Barclays PLC's use of the past strategies, enabling Barclays PLC to bolster their claims to be returning to a historically 'authentic' corporate culture that would inform the organisation's strategies and behaviour going forward. Additionally, the archivists themselves act as the link between the information in the archives that forms part of Barclays PLC's organisational memory, enabling users to utilise this information and transforming the static memory held into the archives into dynamic memory that is then utilised by employees. The thesis highlights the importance of how organisations access the historical information that they use to inform their historical narratives, and the importance of the individuals that act as the link between those who are using the past in some way, and the repositories of historical information. The research findings presented in this thesis will be of interest to organisation studies scholars interested in how managers use history as well as to researchers who study corporate archives. Winner of the Coleman Prize in 2022, this research tells of the potential uses of the past as a source of competitive advantage as well as document the relationship between the Corporate Archives and Head Office in a mayor, long-lived British bank. This thesis is available open access here.  Bernardo Batiz-Lazo is currently straddling between Newcastle and Mexico City. You can find him on twitter on issues related to business history of banking, fintech, payments and other musings. Not always in that order. @BatizLazo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/finance

Recent scholarship in organisation studies has begun to address how organisations perceive and use their history. However, how organisations preserve and access their history, and how this affects how they are able to use their history is less researched. This thesis investigates how Barclays Group Archives (BGA) contribute to Barclays PLC delivering its strategic objectives. It asks, how does BGA, as a specific unit of the organisation, facilitate the delivery of Barclays PLC's strategic objectives? The researcher was embedded in the archives, enabling the gathering of observational data on how BGA operate as well as a unique level of access to archival organisational records. These were used to target and gain access to Barclays PLC employees to conduct interviews to ascertain how they used BGA's resources and what benefits they felt BGA brought.  Using interviews, observation, and other qualitative research methods, Ian Jones introduces archival science theory to the study of how organisations can benefit from using their history, introducing the archival science ideas of authenticity, reliability, usability, and integrity to inform the research on organisational memory and use of the past strategies. The thesis focuses on the period between 2012 and 2015, a time when Barclays PLC made extensive use of their past in an attempt to manage and recover from the various scandals. It argues that BGA, and the archivists in particular, are integral to Barclays PLC's use of the past strategies, enabling Barclays PLC to bolster their claims to be returning to a historically 'authentic' corporate culture that would inform the organisation's strategies and behaviour going forward. Additionally, the archivists themselves act as the link between the information in the archives that forms part of Barclays PLC's organisational memory, enabling users to utilise this information and transforming the static memory held into the archives into dynamic memory that is then utilised by employees. The thesis highlights the importance of how organisations access the historical information that they use to inform their historical narratives, and the importance of the individuals that act as the link between those who are using the past in some way, and the repositories of historical information. The research findings presented in this thesis will be of interest to organisation studies scholars interested in how managers use history as well as to researchers who study corporate archives. Winner of the Coleman Prize in 2022, this research tells of the potential uses of the past as a source of competitive advantage as well as document the relationship between the Corporate Archives and Head Office in a mayor, long-lived British bank. This thesis is available open access here.  Bernardo Batiz-Lazo is currently straddling between Newcastle and Mexico City. You can find him on twitter on issues related to business history of banking, fintech, payments and other musings. Not always in that order. @BatizLazo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

JPMorgan has carried out its first live blockchain-based collateral settlement transaction involving BlackRock and Barclays, the U.S. banking giant said on Wednesday. JPMorgan's Ethereum-based Onyx blockchain and the bank's Tokenized Collateral Network (TCN) was used by BlackRock to tokenize shares in one of its money market funds. The tokens were then transferred to Barclays Plc for collateral in an OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives trade.

Debt: Engine of Prosperity or Road to Ruin?   Takeaway: Gain a more comprehensive understanding of the role of debt in the economy Money Learnings: Richard had a pretty typical upper middle class upbringing. He  got an allowance and had a part-time job Bio: Richard Vague's career has spanned fields as varied as banking, energy, government, and the arts. He recently served as Secretary of Banking and Securities for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Vague previously was managing partner of Gabriel Investments, an early stage venture capital company; was also co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Energy Plus, an electricity and natural gas supply company; and also co-founder and CEO of two banks – First USA, which was sold to Bank One, and Juniper, which was sold to Barclays PLC. He is author of numerous books. His new book is Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis (Univ of Pennsylvania Press, Juuly 11, 2023). Learn more at richardvague.com   Highlights from this episode:    Richard Vague discusses how he fell into a career in banking accidentally after dropping out of college and needing a job to pay for school Richard talked about what inspired him to write his book “Paradox of Debt” Vague explains how excessive mortgage lending led to the 2008 financial crisis Discussion about government spending and debt actually creates wealth by injecting money into the economy The paradox of how debt is both beneficial in growing the economy yet also increases inequality and leads to financial crises over time Vague recommends being skeptical of both government and the private sector, as both are capable of doing good and harm. pardoxofdebt.com https://www.richardvague.com   Richer Soul Life Beyond Money. You got rich, now what? Let's talk about your journey to more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that out together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom! Thanks for listening! Show Sponsor: http://profitcomesfirst.com/ Schedule your free no obligation call: https://bookme.name/rockyl/lite/intro-appointment-15-minutes If you like the show please leave a review on iTunes: http://bit.do/richersoul https://www.facebook.com/richersoul http://richersoul.com/ rocky@richersoul.com   Some music provided by Junan from Junan Podcast   Any financial advice is for educational purposes only and you should consult with an expert for your specific needs.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief for Thursday, January 5th, 2023. Happy Friday Jr. everyone! I hope you and your’s have had a great week thus far! Before I get into today’s news… Club Membership Plug: Let’s stop and take a moment to talk about Fight Laugh Feast Club membership. By joining the Fight Laugh Feast Army, not only will you be aiding in our fight to take down secular & legacy media; but you’ll also get access to content placed in our Club Portal, such as past shows, all of our conference talks, and EXCLUSIVE content for club members that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Lastly, you’ll also get discounts for our conferences… so if you’ve got $10 bucks a month to kick over our way, you can sign up now at fightlaughfeast.com. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-its-his-intention-visit-u-s-mexico-border-amid-historic-crisis Biden says it's his 'intention' to visit US-Mexico border amid historic crisis President Biden says it's his "intention" to visit the U.S-Mexico border amid a record high number of border crossings, according to a report. Biden made the comments Wednesday at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, saying that it's his "intention" to visit the border during his trip to the North American Leaders' Summit on Jan. 9-10, which will include meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The visit would mark Biden's first trip to the border during his presidency. People familiar with discussions surrounding the potential visit told the Wall Street Journal that Biden will not be making a policy announcement if he visits the border. The potential trip comes amid a record-breaking crisis at the southern border, with 617, 250 total migrant encounters occurring so far in FY 2023 as of Dec. 29, 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection sources, adding that there's an average of 6,858 encounters per day. In FY 2022, migrant encounters reached 2.3 million. On Dec. 6, Biden said that "there are more important things going on" when asked why he'd visit a border state but not the U.S. -Mexico border itself. The Biden administration has pushed for Title 42 — the pandemic-era policy which allows immigration officers to quickly remove migrants from the country on the basis of public health — to be lifted. After U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled in favor of immigration advocates and gave Title 42 an end date of Dec. 21, the Supreme Court temporarily halted the policy's termination. Without providing evidence, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in November that Biden has been to the border. https://www.theepochtimes.com/white-house-defends-covid-travel-restrictions-as-beijing-threatens-countermeasures_4961495.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Now from the southern border, to this! Donald Trump Says "China"- Play 0:00-0:10 You guessed it, we’re talking about China! https://www.theepochtimes.com/white-house-defends-covid-travel-restrictions-as-beijing-threatens-countermeasures_4961495.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport White House Defends COVID Travel Restrictions as Beijing Threatens ‘Countermeasures’ The White House is defending its decision to issue travel restrictions related to COVID-19 following several threats from China’s communist regime. The Biden administration said there was no cause for retaliation from Beijing after its communist leadership criticized Washington’s decision to require a negative COVID-19 test from those who travel from China to the United States. “There’s no cause for retaliation here just because countries around the world are taking prudent health measures to protect their citizens,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a Jan. 3 press conference. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, announced that it will reopen its borders on Jan. 8. The move comes just one month after the regime abruptly terminated its zero-COVID policy in response to mass unrest, causing cases of COVID-19 to surge throughout China. The move prompted a global outcry, and nations around the world are hurrying to put in place testing requirements for all arrivals from China. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a statement on Dec. 28, 2022, saying that passengers would need to present a negative COVID-19 test result or proof of recovery before boarding a U.S.-bound flight from China. The CDC said the move was meant to “slow the spread of COVID-19 in the United States during the surge in COVID-19 cases in the PRC [People’s Republic of China] given the lack of adequate and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data being reported from the PRC.” The United States joins the UK, Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Malaysia, Qatar, and other nations seeking to place stronger restrictions on arrivals from China. A spokesperson for the CCP said that the testing requirements were “unacceptable” and vowed that the regime would “take countermeasures” against nations that issue travel restrictions on flights originating in China. The White House defended the decision to require testing from all China-originating travelers based on the international consensus that COVID-19 is currently ravaging China’s populace. That’s funny though… anyone remember when Trump shut down travel to China? Speaker Pelosi Visits SF's Chinatown To Show Support Amid Coronavirus Fears Play 1:16-1:40 The CCP has attempted to cover up the scale of COVID-19 infections in China and the number of deaths it’s causing among the Chinese population, which has no natural immunity following almost three years of constant lockdowns. Leaked images of papers from a CCP conference in December 2022 revealed that Party authorities believe that as many as 248 million Chinese became infected within the first 20 days of December. Publicly, the regime claims that only 10 people died from the disease throughout the month. That’s generally what happens when you don’t allow for herd immunity. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/report-at-least-769-recently-vaxxed-athletes-collapsed-last-year-during-competition/ Report: At Least 769 Recently Vaxxed Athletes Collapsed Last Year During Competition One of the underlying stories of 2022 is the enormous number of professional athletes – primarily men with an average age of 23 – collapsing during competition. Though many of these instances have been documented in singular reports. Mainstream media outlets appear reluctant to link this unprecedented surge in collapses to the Covid-19 jab. Or to even bother asking follow up questions as to why or how this is happening. This is especially suspicious considering the majority of these collapsing instances involved recently vaccinated and or boosted athletes. One America News Network (OAN) did some digging and discovered more than 769 athletes have collapsed on the field during a game from March 2021 to March 2022. As outlined by The Defender, this spike “in cardiac arrest and other heart issues among elite athletes coincides with the rollout of COVID-19 jabs.” Pearson Sharp of OAN asks: How many 23-year-old athletes were collapsing and suffering heart attacks before this year? Do you know any 23-year-old people who had heart attacks before now? And these are just the ones we know about. How many have gone unreported? Nearly 800 athletes — young, fit people in the prime of life — falling down on the field. In fact, 500% more soccer players in the EU are dropping dead from heart attacks than just one year ago. Sharp discussed how this unprecedented surge is not a coincidence. Especially because “the Pfizer vaccine is known to cause heart inflammation.” He also alluded to the fact this number may be grossly underreported. The reason for these unreliable figures stems from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) showing only between 1 and 10% of adverse reactions according to past investigations. Kyle Warner, for example, is an athlete who filed a VAERS report about his own health injuries following the COVID-19 jab. As Dr. Joseph Mercola put it; the filing took Warner 45 minutes – “a length of time that many doctors can’t or won’t devote when it comes to reporting adverse vaccine reactions seen among their patients.” Regardless, elite athletes collapsing in game increased so much in 2022 that even a mainstream media sports channel in Australia has speculated that the health issues could be linked to COVID-19 shots. https://twitter.com/i/status/1513542808531046409 - Play Video As this number steadily grows, mainstream outlets appear to be ignoring these collapses and their potential linkage to the Covd-19 vaccine. At the same time, the White House and other institutions continue pushing for more to take the experimental jab and get boosted. https://thepostmillennial.com/two-thirds-of-us-big-bank-economists-predict-a-recession-for-2023?utm_campaign=64487 Recession predicted in 2023 for US economy by economists at major banks Two-thirds of top economists at the United States' largest financial institutions are predicting a recession in 2023, according to a survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal. Primary concerns cited in the survey of 23 primary dealers, including those from Barclays PLC, Bank of America Corp, TD Securities, and UBS Group AG, were a dwindling of pandemic savings, a decline in the housing market, and a tightening of lending rules as potential warning signs of an incoming recession. The prediction follows a year of soaring inflation, accompanied by rapid interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve that have risen from nearly zero in March, to 4.5 percent by the year's end. The Federal Reserve reportedly plans to continue its increase to 5 percent, then 5.5 percent in 2023. Economists predict that this will force unemployment rates above five percent, resulting in millions of Americans losing their jobs. The central bank doesn't forecast a decline in interest rates until 2024 at the earliest, as it attempts a balancing act of attempting to lower inflation levels without triggering a recession. Inflation began to increase at the beginning of 2022, rising at its fastest pace in 40 years. It currently sits at three times the government's preferred rate of two percent. Americans' savings during the pandemic from decreased spending and government stimulus measures have started to dwindle, as consumers increasingly dig in to weather rising prices of most products, from groceries to gas. Households have also increasingly had to take out lines of credit to afford their lives, as total household borrowing increased by $351 billion between the second and third quarter, to a total of $16.51 trillion, the fastest increase in 14 years. The high interest rates have hit the housing market particularly hard, as mortgage rates continue to soar and home sales plummeted. Banks have also significantly tightened their lending standards, more often than not an indicator of an incoming recession. Out of the 23 primary dealers surveyed, only five believed that there would not be a recession: Credit Suisse Group AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., HSBC Holdings PLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Morgan Stanley. Jeremy Schwartz, Senior US Economist at Credit Suisse, one of the five banks that didn't predict a recession, wrote of the outlook for 2023, "Several historically reliable lead indicators are sending recession signals, but in our view these measures are unable to correctly gauge recession risk in the current environment." https://www.foxnews.com/world/zelenskyy-warns-russia-planning-prolonged-attack-iranian-shahed-drones Zelenskyy warns Russia planning ‘prolonged’ attack with Iranian Shahed drones Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Kyiv has gained intelligence suggesting that Russia is planning a prolonged attack by using Iranian-supplied Shahed drones. In an overnight address Monday, Zelenskyy warned that in the two days since the world welcomed in 2023, Ukraine has stopped more than 80 drone strikes. "We have information that Russia is planning a prolonged attack with Shaheds," he said. Zelenskyy said that Russia is looking to exhaust "our people, our air defense, our energy sector" by constantly pummeling the country with air strikes – a strategy Moscow has been employing for months but which it has escalated as winter sets in. "Now is the time when everyone involved in the protection of the sky should be especially attentive," he said addressing Ukrainian pilots and those in charge of air defense. Moscow and Tehran, Iran, have repeatedly denied any drone partnership or the use of Iranian supplied drones in Ukraine despite evidence supplied by Kyiv and backed by Western defense officials. Zelenskyy urged his forces on the front lines, particularly those fighting in areas like Bakhmut – which has seen intense ground warfare for months – to continue to hold the line amid harsh winter conditions, which has likely slowed fighting in other areas like Kherson. Ukrainian forces have continued to push the lines eastward in areas like Donetsk, and fighting has begun to intensify in the Donbas region where Russian backed forces have fought since 2014. Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces championed this week that Ukrainian forces have liberated 40% of the territory Russia occupied following its invasion. He also said that in the regions where Russian forces remain Moscow has lost roughly 28% of the land. Armored Republic The Mission of Armored Republic is to Honor Christ by equipping Free Men with Tools of Liberty necessary to preserve God-given rights. In the Armored Republic there is no King but Christ. We are Free Craftsmen. Body Armor is a Tool of Liberty. We create Tools of Liberty. Free men must remain ever vigilant against tyranny wherever it appears. God has given us the tools of liberty needed to defend the rights He bestowed to us. Armored Republic is honored to offer you those Tools. Visit them, at ar500armor.com Now for my favorite topic, sports! Take a listen to ESPN football analyst Dan Orlovsky on the hospitalized Damar Hamlin: ESPN's Dan Orlovsky Praying for Damar Hamlin on NFL Live Play video That took place on ESPN ladies and gentleman. This is why I love sports… sports has gone woke in recent years, but it’s situations like this, that bring people together… God is always at work, but it’s amazing to see His handiwork in this situation.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief for Thursday, January 5th, 2023. Happy Friday Jr. everyone! I hope you and your’s have had a great week thus far! Before I get into today’s news… Club Membership Plug: Let’s stop and take a moment to talk about Fight Laugh Feast Club membership. By joining the Fight Laugh Feast Army, not only will you be aiding in our fight to take down secular & legacy media; but you’ll also get access to content placed in our Club Portal, such as past shows, all of our conference talks, and EXCLUSIVE content for club members that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Lastly, you’ll also get discounts for our conferences… so if you’ve got $10 bucks a month to kick over our way, you can sign up now at fightlaughfeast.com. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-its-his-intention-visit-u-s-mexico-border-amid-historic-crisis Biden says it's his 'intention' to visit US-Mexico border amid historic crisis President Biden says it's his "intention" to visit the U.S-Mexico border amid a record high number of border crossings, according to a report. Biden made the comments Wednesday at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, saying that it's his "intention" to visit the border during his trip to the North American Leaders' Summit on Jan. 9-10, which will include meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The visit would mark Biden's first trip to the border during his presidency. People familiar with discussions surrounding the potential visit told the Wall Street Journal that Biden will not be making a policy announcement if he visits the border. The potential trip comes amid a record-breaking crisis at the southern border, with 617, 250 total migrant encounters occurring so far in FY 2023 as of Dec. 29, 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection sources, adding that there's an average of 6,858 encounters per day. In FY 2022, migrant encounters reached 2.3 million. On Dec. 6, Biden said that "there are more important things going on" when asked why he'd visit a border state but not the U.S. -Mexico border itself. The Biden administration has pushed for Title 42 — the pandemic-era policy which allows immigration officers to quickly remove migrants from the country on the basis of public health — to be lifted. After U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled in favor of immigration advocates and gave Title 42 an end date of Dec. 21, the Supreme Court temporarily halted the policy's termination. Without providing evidence, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in November that Biden has been to the border. https://www.theepochtimes.com/white-house-defends-covid-travel-restrictions-as-beijing-threatens-countermeasures_4961495.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Now from the southern border, to this! Donald Trump Says "China"- Play 0:00-0:10 You guessed it, we’re talking about China! https://www.theepochtimes.com/white-house-defends-covid-travel-restrictions-as-beijing-threatens-countermeasures_4961495.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport White House Defends COVID Travel Restrictions as Beijing Threatens ‘Countermeasures’ The White House is defending its decision to issue travel restrictions related to COVID-19 following several threats from China’s communist regime. The Biden administration said there was no cause for retaliation from Beijing after its communist leadership criticized Washington’s decision to require a negative COVID-19 test from those who travel from China to the United States. “There’s no cause for retaliation here just because countries around the world are taking prudent health measures to protect their citizens,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a Jan. 3 press conference. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, announced that it will reopen its borders on Jan. 8. The move comes just one month after the regime abruptly terminated its zero-COVID policy in response to mass unrest, causing cases of COVID-19 to surge throughout China. The move prompted a global outcry, and nations around the world are hurrying to put in place testing requirements for all arrivals from China. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a statement on Dec. 28, 2022, saying that passengers would need to present a negative COVID-19 test result or proof of recovery before boarding a U.S.-bound flight from China. The CDC said the move was meant to “slow the spread of COVID-19 in the United States during the surge in COVID-19 cases in the PRC [People’s Republic of China] given the lack of adequate and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data being reported from the PRC.” The United States joins the UK, Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Malaysia, Qatar, and other nations seeking to place stronger restrictions on arrivals from China. A spokesperson for the CCP said that the testing requirements were “unacceptable” and vowed that the regime would “take countermeasures” against nations that issue travel restrictions on flights originating in China. The White House defended the decision to require testing from all China-originating travelers based on the international consensus that COVID-19 is currently ravaging China’s populace. That’s funny though… anyone remember when Trump shut down travel to China? Speaker Pelosi Visits SF's Chinatown To Show Support Amid Coronavirus Fears Play 1:16-1:40 The CCP has attempted to cover up the scale of COVID-19 infections in China and the number of deaths it’s causing among the Chinese population, which has no natural immunity following almost three years of constant lockdowns. Leaked images of papers from a CCP conference in December 2022 revealed that Party authorities believe that as many as 248 million Chinese became infected within the first 20 days of December. Publicly, the regime claims that only 10 people died from the disease throughout the month. That’s generally what happens when you don’t allow for herd immunity. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/report-at-least-769-recently-vaxxed-athletes-collapsed-last-year-during-competition/ Report: At Least 769 Recently Vaxxed Athletes Collapsed Last Year During Competition One of the underlying stories of 2022 is the enormous number of professional athletes – primarily men with an average age of 23 – collapsing during competition. Though many of these instances have been documented in singular reports. Mainstream media outlets appear reluctant to link this unprecedented surge in collapses to the Covid-19 jab. Or to even bother asking follow up questions as to why or how this is happening. This is especially suspicious considering the majority of these collapsing instances involved recently vaccinated and or boosted athletes. One America News Network (OAN) did some digging and discovered more than 769 athletes have collapsed on the field during a game from March 2021 to March 2022. As outlined by The Defender, this spike “in cardiac arrest and other heart issues among elite athletes coincides with the rollout of COVID-19 jabs.” Pearson Sharp of OAN asks: How many 23-year-old athletes were collapsing and suffering heart attacks before this year? Do you know any 23-year-old people who had heart attacks before now? And these are just the ones we know about. How many have gone unreported? Nearly 800 athletes — young, fit people in the prime of life — falling down on the field. In fact, 500% more soccer players in the EU are dropping dead from heart attacks than just one year ago. Sharp discussed how this unprecedented surge is not a coincidence. Especially because “the Pfizer vaccine is known to cause heart inflammation.” He also alluded to the fact this number may be grossly underreported. The reason for these unreliable figures stems from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) showing only between 1 and 10% of adverse reactions according to past investigations. Kyle Warner, for example, is an athlete who filed a VAERS report about his own health injuries following the COVID-19 jab. As Dr. Joseph Mercola put it; the filing took Warner 45 minutes – “a length of time that many doctors can’t or won’t devote when it comes to reporting adverse vaccine reactions seen among their patients.” Regardless, elite athletes collapsing in game increased so much in 2022 that even a mainstream media sports channel in Australia has speculated that the health issues could be linked to COVID-19 shots. https://twitter.com/i/status/1513542808531046409 - Play Video As this number steadily grows, mainstream outlets appear to be ignoring these collapses and their potential linkage to the Covd-19 vaccine. At the same time, the White House and other institutions continue pushing for more to take the experimental jab and get boosted. https://thepostmillennial.com/two-thirds-of-us-big-bank-economists-predict-a-recession-for-2023?utm_campaign=64487 Recession predicted in 2023 for US economy by economists at major banks Two-thirds of top economists at the United States' largest financial institutions are predicting a recession in 2023, according to a survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal. Primary concerns cited in the survey of 23 primary dealers, including those from Barclays PLC, Bank of America Corp, TD Securities, and UBS Group AG, were a dwindling of pandemic savings, a decline in the housing market, and a tightening of lending rules as potential warning signs of an incoming recession. The prediction follows a year of soaring inflation, accompanied by rapid interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve that have risen from nearly zero in March, to 4.5 percent by the year's end. The Federal Reserve reportedly plans to continue its increase to 5 percent, then 5.5 percent in 2023. Economists predict that this will force unemployment rates above five percent, resulting in millions of Americans losing their jobs. The central bank doesn't forecast a decline in interest rates until 2024 at the earliest, as it attempts a balancing act of attempting to lower inflation levels without triggering a recession. Inflation began to increase at the beginning of 2022, rising at its fastest pace in 40 years. It currently sits at three times the government's preferred rate of two percent. Americans' savings during the pandemic from decreased spending and government stimulus measures have started to dwindle, as consumers increasingly dig in to weather rising prices of most products, from groceries to gas. Households have also increasingly had to take out lines of credit to afford their lives, as total household borrowing increased by $351 billion between the second and third quarter, to a total of $16.51 trillion, the fastest increase in 14 years. The high interest rates have hit the housing market particularly hard, as mortgage rates continue to soar and home sales plummeted. Banks have also significantly tightened their lending standards, more often than not an indicator of an incoming recession. Out of the 23 primary dealers surveyed, only five believed that there would not be a recession: Credit Suisse Group AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., HSBC Holdings PLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Morgan Stanley. Jeremy Schwartz, Senior US Economist at Credit Suisse, one of the five banks that didn't predict a recession, wrote of the outlook for 2023, "Several historically reliable lead indicators are sending recession signals, but in our view these measures are unable to correctly gauge recession risk in the current environment." https://www.foxnews.com/world/zelenskyy-warns-russia-planning-prolonged-attack-iranian-shahed-drones Zelenskyy warns Russia planning ‘prolonged’ attack with Iranian Shahed drones Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Kyiv has gained intelligence suggesting that Russia is planning a prolonged attack by using Iranian-supplied Shahed drones. In an overnight address Monday, Zelenskyy warned that in the two days since the world welcomed in 2023, Ukraine has stopped more than 80 drone strikes. "We have information that Russia is planning a prolonged attack with Shaheds," he said. Zelenskyy said that Russia is looking to exhaust "our people, our air defense, our energy sector" by constantly pummeling the country with air strikes – a strategy Moscow has been employing for months but which it has escalated as winter sets in. "Now is the time when everyone involved in the protection of the sky should be especially attentive," he said addressing Ukrainian pilots and those in charge of air defense. Moscow and Tehran, Iran, have repeatedly denied any drone partnership or the use of Iranian supplied drones in Ukraine despite evidence supplied by Kyiv and backed by Western defense officials. Zelenskyy urged his forces on the front lines, particularly those fighting in areas like Bakhmut – which has seen intense ground warfare for months – to continue to hold the line amid harsh winter conditions, which has likely slowed fighting in other areas like Kherson. Ukrainian forces have continued to push the lines eastward in areas like Donetsk, and fighting has begun to intensify in the Donbas region where Russian backed forces have fought since 2014. Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces championed this week that Ukrainian forces have liberated 40% of the territory Russia occupied following its invasion. He also said that in the regions where Russian forces remain Moscow has lost roughly 28% of the land. Armored Republic The Mission of Armored Republic is to Honor Christ by equipping Free Men with Tools of Liberty necessary to preserve God-given rights. In the Armored Republic there is no King but Christ. We are Free Craftsmen. Body Armor is a Tool of Liberty. We create Tools of Liberty. Free men must remain ever vigilant against tyranny wherever it appears. God has given us the tools of liberty needed to defend the rights He bestowed to us. Armored Republic is honored to offer you those Tools. Visit them, at ar500armor.com Now for my favorite topic, sports! Take a listen to ESPN football analyst Dan Orlovsky on the hospitalized Damar Hamlin: ESPN's Dan Orlovsky Praying for Damar Hamlin on NFL Live Play video That took place on ESPN ladies and gentleman. This is why I love sports… sports has gone woke in recent years, but it’s situations like this, that bring people together… God is always at work, but it’s amazing to see His handiwork in this situation.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily Newsbrief for Thursday, January 5th, 2023. Happy Friday Jr. everyone! I hope you and your’s have had a great week thus far! Before I get into today’s news… Club Membership Plug: Let’s stop and take a moment to talk about Fight Laugh Feast Club membership. By joining the Fight Laugh Feast Army, not only will you be aiding in our fight to take down secular & legacy media; but you’ll also get access to content placed in our Club Portal, such as past shows, all of our conference talks, and EXCLUSIVE content for club members that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Lastly, you’ll also get discounts for our conferences… so if you’ve got $10 bucks a month to kick over our way, you can sign up now at fightlaughfeast.com. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-its-his-intention-visit-u-s-mexico-border-amid-historic-crisis Biden says it's his 'intention' to visit US-Mexico border amid historic crisis President Biden says it's his "intention" to visit the U.S-Mexico border amid a record high number of border crossings, according to a report. Biden made the comments Wednesday at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, saying that it's his "intention" to visit the border during his trip to the North American Leaders' Summit on Jan. 9-10, which will include meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The visit would mark Biden's first trip to the border during his presidency. People familiar with discussions surrounding the potential visit told the Wall Street Journal that Biden will not be making a policy announcement if he visits the border. The potential trip comes amid a record-breaking crisis at the southern border, with 617, 250 total migrant encounters occurring so far in FY 2023 as of Dec. 29, 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection sources, adding that there's an average of 6,858 encounters per day. In FY 2022, migrant encounters reached 2.3 million. On Dec. 6, Biden said that "there are more important things going on" when asked why he'd visit a border state but not the U.S. -Mexico border itself. The Biden administration has pushed for Title 42 — the pandemic-era policy which allows immigration officers to quickly remove migrants from the country on the basis of public health — to be lifted. After U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled in favor of immigration advocates and gave Title 42 an end date of Dec. 21, the Supreme Court temporarily halted the policy's termination. Without providing evidence, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in November that Biden has been to the border. https://www.theepochtimes.com/white-house-defends-covid-travel-restrictions-as-beijing-threatens-countermeasures_4961495.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Now from the southern border, to this! Donald Trump Says "China"- Play 0:00-0:10 You guessed it, we’re talking about China! https://www.theepochtimes.com/white-house-defends-covid-travel-restrictions-as-beijing-threatens-countermeasures_4961495.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport White House Defends COVID Travel Restrictions as Beijing Threatens ‘Countermeasures’ The White House is defending its decision to issue travel restrictions related to COVID-19 following several threats from China’s communist regime. The Biden administration said there was no cause for retaliation from Beijing after its communist leadership criticized Washington’s decision to require a negative COVID-19 test from those who travel from China to the United States. “There’s no cause for retaliation here just because countries around the world are taking prudent health measures to protect their citizens,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a Jan. 3 press conference. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, announced that it will reopen its borders on Jan. 8. The move comes just one month after the regime abruptly terminated its zero-COVID policy in response to mass unrest, causing cases of COVID-19 to surge throughout China. The move prompted a global outcry, and nations around the world are hurrying to put in place testing requirements for all arrivals from China. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a statement on Dec. 28, 2022, saying that passengers would need to present a negative COVID-19 test result or proof of recovery before boarding a U.S.-bound flight from China. The CDC said the move was meant to “slow the spread of COVID-19 in the United States during the surge in COVID-19 cases in the PRC [People’s Republic of China] given the lack of adequate and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data being reported from the PRC.” The United States joins the UK, Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Malaysia, Qatar, and other nations seeking to place stronger restrictions on arrivals from China. A spokesperson for the CCP said that the testing requirements were “unacceptable” and vowed that the regime would “take countermeasures” against nations that issue travel restrictions on flights originating in China. The White House defended the decision to require testing from all China-originating travelers based on the international consensus that COVID-19 is currently ravaging China’s populace. That’s funny though… anyone remember when Trump shut down travel to China? Speaker Pelosi Visits SF's Chinatown To Show Support Amid Coronavirus Fears Play 1:16-1:40 The CCP has attempted to cover up the scale of COVID-19 infections in China and the number of deaths it’s causing among the Chinese population, which has no natural immunity following almost three years of constant lockdowns. Leaked images of papers from a CCP conference in December 2022 revealed that Party authorities believe that as many as 248 million Chinese became infected within the first 20 days of December. Publicly, the regime claims that only 10 people died from the disease throughout the month. That’s generally what happens when you don’t allow for herd immunity. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/report-at-least-769-recently-vaxxed-athletes-collapsed-last-year-during-competition/ Report: At Least 769 Recently Vaxxed Athletes Collapsed Last Year During Competition One of the underlying stories of 2022 is the enormous number of professional athletes – primarily men with an average age of 23 – collapsing during competition. Though many of these instances have been documented in singular reports. Mainstream media outlets appear reluctant to link this unprecedented surge in collapses to the Covid-19 jab. Or to even bother asking follow up questions as to why or how this is happening. This is especially suspicious considering the majority of these collapsing instances involved recently vaccinated and or boosted athletes. One America News Network (OAN) did some digging and discovered more than 769 athletes have collapsed on the field during a game from March 2021 to March 2022. As outlined by The Defender, this spike “in cardiac arrest and other heart issues among elite athletes coincides with the rollout of COVID-19 jabs.” Pearson Sharp of OAN asks: How many 23-year-old athletes were collapsing and suffering heart attacks before this year? Do you know any 23-year-old people who had heart attacks before now? And these are just the ones we know about. How many have gone unreported? Nearly 800 athletes — young, fit people in the prime of life — falling down on the field. In fact, 500% more soccer players in the EU are dropping dead from heart attacks than just one year ago. Sharp discussed how this unprecedented surge is not a coincidence. Especially because “the Pfizer vaccine is known to cause heart inflammation.” He also alluded to the fact this number may be grossly underreported. The reason for these unreliable figures stems from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) showing only between 1 and 10% of adverse reactions according to past investigations. Kyle Warner, for example, is an athlete who filed a VAERS report about his own health injuries following the COVID-19 jab. As Dr. Joseph Mercola put it; the filing took Warner 45 minutes – “a length of time that many doctors can’t or won’t devote when it comes to reporting adverse vaccine reactions seen among their patients.” Regardless, elite athletes collapsing in game increased so much in 2022 that even a mainstream media sports channel in Australia has speculated that the health issues could be linked to COVID-19 shots. https://twitter.com/i/status/1513542808531046409 - Play Video As this number steadily grows, mainstream outlets appear to be ignoring these collapses and their potential linkage to the Covd-19 vaccine. At the same time, the White House and other institutions continue pushing for more to take the experimental jab and get boosted. https://thepostmillennial.com/two-thirds-of-us-big-bank-economists-predict-a-recession-for-2023?utm_campaign=64487 Recession predicted in 2023 for US economy by economists at major banks Two-thirds of top economists at the United States' largest financial institutions are predicting a recession in 2023, according to a survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal. Primary concerns cited in the survey of 23 primary dealers, including those from Barclays PLC, Bank of America Corp, TD Securities, and UBS Group AG, were a dwindling of pandemic savings, a decline in the housing market, and a tightening of lending rules as potential warning signs of an incoming recession. The prediction follows a year of soaring inflation, accompanied by rapid interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve that have risen from nearly zero in March, to 4.5 percent by the year's end. The Federal Reserve reportedly plans to continue its increase to 5 percent, then 5.5 percent in 2023. Economists predict that this will force unemployment rates above five percent, resulting in millions of Americans losing their jobs. The central bank doesn't forecast a decline in interest rates until 2024 at the earliest, as it attempts a balancing act of attempting to lower inflation levels without triggering a recession. Inflation began to increase at the beginning of 2022, rising at its fastest pace in 40 years. It currently sits at three times the government's preferred rate of two percent. Americans' savings during the pandemic from decreased spending and government stimulus measures have started to dwindle, as consumers increasingly dig in to weather rising prices of most products, from groceries to gas. Households have also increasingly had to take out lines of credit to afford their lives, as total household borrowing increased by $351 billion between the second and third quarter, to a total of $16.51 trillion, the fastest increase in 14 years. The high interest rates have hit the housing market particularly hard, as mortgage rates continue to soar and home sales plummeted. Banks have also significantly tightened their lending standards, more often than not an indicator of an incoming recession. Out of the 23 primary dealers surveyed, only five believed that there would not be a recession: Credit Suisse Group AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., HSBC Holdings PLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Morgan Stanley. Jeremy Schwartz, Senior US Economist at Credit Suisse, one of the five banks that didn't predict a recession, wrote of the outlook for 2023, "Several historically reliable lead indicators are sending recession signals, but in our view these measures are unable to correctly gauge recession risk in the current environment." https://www.foxnews.com/world/zelenskyy-warns-russia-planning-prolonged-attack-iranian-shahed-drones Zelenskyy warns Russia planning ‘prolonged’ attack with Iranian Shahed drones Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Kyiv has gained intelligence suggesting that Russia is planning a prolonged attack by using Iranian-supplied Shahed drones. In an overnight address Monday, Zelenskyy warned that in the two days since the world welcomed in 2023, Ukraine has stopped more than 80 drone strikes. "We have information that Russia is planning a prolonged attack with Shaheds," he said. Zelenskyy said that Russia is looking to exhaust "our people, our air defense, our energy sector" by constantly pummeling the country with air strikes – a strategy Moscow has been employing for months but which it has escalated as winter sets in. "Now is the time when everyone involved in the protection of the sky should be especially attentive," he said addressing Ukrainian pilots and those in charge of air defense. Moscow and Tehran, Iran, have repeatedly denied any drone partnership or the use of Iranian supplied drones in Ukraine despite evidence supplied by Kyiv and backed by Western defense officials. Zelenskyy urged his forces on the front lines, particularly those fighting in areas like Bakhmut – which has seen intense ground warfare for months – to continue to hold the line amid harsh winter conditions, which has likely slowed fighting in other areas like Kherson. Ukrainian forces have continued to push the lines eastward in areas like Donetsk, and fighting has begun to intensify in the Donbas region where Russian backed forces have fought since 2014. Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces championed this week that Ukrainian forces have liberated 40% of the territory Russia occupied following its invasion. He also said that in the regions where Russian forces remain Moscow has lost roughly 28% of the land. Armored Republic The Mission of Armored Republic is to Honor Christ by equipping Free Men with Tools of Liberty necessary to preserve God-given rights. In the Armored Republic there is no King but Christ. We are Free Craftsmen. Body Armor is a Tool of Liberty. We create Tools of Liberty. Free men must remain ever vigilant against tyranny wherever it appears. God has given us the tools of liberty needed to defend the rights He bestowed to us. Armored Republic is honored to offer you those Tools. Visit them, at ar500armor.com Now for my favorite topic, sports! Take a listen to ESPN football analyst Dan Orlovsky on the hospitalized Damar Hamlin: ESPN's Dan Orlovsky Praying for Damar Hamlin on NFL Live Play video That took place on ESPN ladies and gentleman. This is why I love sports… sports has gone woke in recent years, but it’s situations like this, that bring people together… God is always at work, but it’s amazing to see His handiwork in this situation.

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Dvorak's prediction is looking very prescient. Markets cannot get a break - all news is bad news. More boneheaded moves by governments. Need to get some adults in charge here... PLUS we are now on Spotify and Amazon Music/Podcasts! Click HERE for Show Notes and Links DHUnplugged is now streaming live - with listener chat. Click on link on the right sidebar. Love the Show? Then how about a Donation? Follow John C. Dvorak on Twitter Follow Andrew Horowitz on Twitter Warm Up - Market Rally Hard – then Fade Hard - Nobel Prized awarded! - Inverse Cramer ETF Filed - IMF Poops on and Possible Party - Scare tactics? The Wealth Advisor Headlines Market Update - Jamie Dimon – Not Bullish - DJIA hit 29,010 low on Monday - Dvorak's Prophesy - UK in Distress - Nasty action - no reprieve, no good news - NASDAQ closes at 2 year low (taking out most of pandemic move Remember we talking last episode about "breaking things" - It looked as though there was a significant breakdown of confidence (especially in the UK) --- Dvorak Prophecy comes true - Bond market BROKE in UK - poor leadership and lack of plan - US and around the world, central bankers trying to break inflation (through recession) Big Week - Economics: PPI, CPI, FOMC Minutes, Retail Sales, Import/Export Prices, UMICH (WOW!) - PPI expected to come in at 0.3% MoM, CPI 0.2%  MoM - CORE PPI expected 0.4%, CORE CPI 0.5% -- EARNINGS: BANKS start the earnings season (JPM Citi) IMF - The International Monetary Fund predicts global growth will slow to 2.7% next year, 0.2 percentage points lower than its July forecast, and anticipates 2023 will feel like a recession for millions around the world. - "The worst is yet to come, and for many people 2023 will feel like a recession," the report said, echoing warnings from the United Nations, the World Bank and many global CEOs. - More than a third of the global economy will see two consecutive quarters of negative growth, while the three largest economies — the United States, the European Union and China — will continue to slow, the report said. - Not particularly encouraging.... NOBEL - Ben Bernanke won this year's Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for laying the foundation of how the world now manages global crises like the recent pandemic or the Great Recession of 2008 - Student of the Depression and Recessions of the Past - BUT, Did not see anything of concern during 2006, 2007, 2008 as the financial system was starting to implode - Maybe could have been worse ???? Time for Selling (Tax Loss) - Into the end of the year –  time to start thinking about  Tax Loss harvesting - That's the term for selling a stock at a loss and using that to offset gains elsewhere in one's portfolio. - ** Mutual Funds are going to be looking for losses and may be selling as Oct 31 is often associated with incentive under TRA 1986 Twitter Deal - On, Off, On, Off, On again - Musk now says he wants to buy at original price of $54.20 - Banks may face stiff losses - Lenders that also include Bank of America Corp., Barclays Plc and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. committed to provide $13 billion of debt financing for the deal. Their losses would amount to $500 million or more if the debt were to be sold now, according to Bloomberg calculations. --- Why did he decide to go through with deal? Wanted out of deposition? More Musk – Endless Musk - Twitter to become Super-App? - On Tuesday, Musk tweeted that buying Twitter is an "accelerant to creating X, the everything app." - Super apps is a term to describe an app that often acts as a one-stop shop for all your mobile needs. For example, you might order a taxi or food via the app and at the same time do payments and messaging. This eliminates the need to have multiple apps for different functions. Defense Stocks - A basket of five— Northrop Grumman (ticker: NOC), Lockheed Martin (LMT),

For many observers of SA's banking sector, Absa has been the sleeping giant that somehow never manages to fulfil its huge potential. After numerous of false starts, however, under new CEO Arrie Rautenbach, this time may indeed be different. The banking group's new leader started at the very bottom of the pile (in collections) a quarter century ago and has packed his Executive Committee with other Absa 'lifers'. He appeared an unlikely candidate for the top job, but since his appointment in late March Rautenbach has accelerated the "reimagining" of a group emerging from a three year process of extricating itself from former parent Barclays Plc. This interview with Alec Hogg of BizNews goes some way to confirm why so many JSE investors, including financial services investing guru Kokkie Kooyman, are tipping a resurgent Absa as the bank most likely to challenge SA's long-time market leader FirstRand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this look back episode...Jes Staley is feeling the heat.As outside forces led by regulators and financial watchdogs begin to close in on Staley over his relationship with Epstein he faces an attack from within at the same time.With all the pressure from outside and within, Staley is barely clinging to his position. The question is how much longer can he hold on??(Commercial at 10:45)To contact me:Bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://m.marketscreener.com/BARCLAYS-PLC-9583556/news/Visits-to-Epstein-s-Island-Examined-WSJ-30126456/

In this look back episode...Jes Staley is feeling the heat.As outside forces led by regulators and financial watchdogs begin to close in on Staley over his relationship with Epstein he faces an attack from within at the same time.With all the pressure from outside and within, Staley is barely clinging to his position. The question is how much longer can he hold on??(Commercial at 10:45)To contact me:Bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://m.marketscreener.com/BARCLAYS-PLC-9583556/news/Visits-to-Epstein-s-Island-Examined-WSJ-30126456/

Dos casos de estudio básicos en el campo de Compliance son Enron y WorldCom. Estos representaron fallos catastróficos en los programas de Compliance de esas organizaciones y revelaron que graves problemas en la estructura de incentivos dentro de una empresa, pueden llevar a la negligencia y a la conducta criminal por parte de sus altos ejecutivos. Además, estos escándalos tuvieron como consecuencia la creación de normas adicionales con las que las grandes corporaciones deben trabajar hasta la fecha. El caso de Enron es una historia de avaricia fomentada en un ambiente corporativo, en el cual las personas se negaron a ver la realidad. Enron fue una corporación norteamericana que surgió en 1985, por la fusión de dos empresas: InterNorth y Houston Natural Gas. Pertenecía a la industria energética y el comercio de materias primas (commodities). Tuvo un rápido crecimiento por lo que la organización y sus altos ejecutivos fueron aclamados en su momento como innovadores. En 2001, la corporación se declaró en bancarrota con una deuda que rondaba los nueve mil millones de dólares y se reveló que la situación se debía a un elaborado fraude de contabilidad que se llevaba a cabo en forma organizada y sistemática desde las más altas esferas de la organización. La página web 8https://tshaonline.org/handbook/onlin...fue consultada el 26 de junio de 2018. 7 Arthur Andersen LLP, que en su momento fuera una de las “Cinco Grandes” firmas de consultoría a nivel mundial9. WorldCom fue una empresa de telecomunicaciones y tiene un caso similar al de Enron.SOX ComplianceAmbos escándalos fueron en su momento los más grandes fraudes de contabilidad en la historia. Se logró eso con una gran variedad de métodos, como inflar ingresos falsificando cuentas inexistentes en los libros de contabilidad. Con esto, lograban mantener los precios de las acciones altos a pesar de las pérdidas. Además, se registraban falsamente las pérdidas y gastos de la empresa clasificándolas como inversiones de capital. El resultado de estos dos escándalos que consistió en la participación activa de un tercero que actuaba como consultor/contador de las organizaciones en cuestión, fue la emisión de la Ley de Protección al Inversionista y de Reforma a la Contabilidad de Empresas Públicas, más conocida como la Ley Sarbanes-Oxley del año 2002. Lo que se buscaba con esta norma era mejorar la precisión y hacer más confiable la divulgación de información por parte de empresas como consecuencia de los requerimientos existentes para cotizar en bolsa. Entre otras cosas, en la ley se incluyen nuevos delitos, se ordena la creación de nuevas normas que especifiquen la mejor manera de cumplir con las leyes aplicables, y se crea la responsabilidad penal de los miembros de las juntas directivas de las organizaciones. Todo esto implicó aún más peso sobre los hombros de las compañías, que deberían invertir más tiempo y recursos en cumplir con todas estas nuevas obligaciones.Otro efecto que tuvieron los escándalos antes mencionados y la burbuja tecnológica del 2001, fue que la Comisión de Sentencias de los Estados Unidos en 2004 modificó los Lineamientos Federales para Sentencias que había creado más de diez años atrás y añadió dos nuevos elementos a los programas de Compliance.Enron y Worlcom no son los únicos escándalos de corrupción sonados a nivel mundial.Tal vez el caso más famoso que ha estallado este 2015 es el de la Federación Internacional del Fútbol Asociado (FIFA), en el cual al menos 14 miembros del comité ejecutivo han sido involucrados y se estima que estos, recibieron sobornos y comisiones por hasta US$150 millones, durante 24 años.Según el Departamento de Justicia estadounidense, los funcionarios habrían realizado un marketing deportivo, en relación con la comercialización de los medios en varios torneos de fútbol. Además, bancos como Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered y Barclays Plc podrían salir salpicados por el caso, luego de que una corte de Nueva York comenzara a investigarlos, y por si fuera poco, la Fiscalía General de Suiza también abrió su propia indagación por la elección de las sedes de los Mundiales de 2018 y 2022.Tal vez viendo estos casos, se estarán preguntando, y a mi cómo me puede afectar, quiero que vean un ejemplo.https://www.larepublica.co/globoecono...

Joined by our guest, Raewyn Guerrero, we learn more from her about functional medicine and how she works with clients to create a DRESS for health success plan. After 5 years at Barclays PLC leading Wellness between 2011-2016, Raewyn Guerrero founded Well Works with a team of practitioners who share her vision of self-care as healthcare. Her mission is to create a Well World, starting with women in business, by offering a personalized roadmap for how they eat, think, sleep and move through the insights gained from Functional Labs. Raewyn and the Well Works team have helped hundreds of corporate professionals get to the root of their health issues when traditional medicine has failed. By focusing on the WHY as opposed to the WHAT, they support the body s innate healing systems, rather than treating symptoms. Connect with Raewyn and her company more here: Website: https://well-works.co Well World Online Community: Facebook.com/groups/wellworksworld Instagram.com/wellworks.co Our recovery moment is an intention-setting meditation to focus on happiness. Ready to start your journey from burnout to recovery? Take the Feeling Crispy? Burnout Quiz here: https://bit.ly/FeelingCrispyQuiz

After 5 years at Barclays PLC leading Wellness between 2011-2016, Raewyn Guerrero founded Well Works with a team of practitioners who share her vision of self-care as healthcare. Her mission is to create a Well World, starting with women in business, by offering a personalised roadmap for how they eat, think, sleep and move through the insights gained from Functional Labs. Raewyn and the Well Works team have helped hundreds of corporate professionals get to the root of their health issues, when traditional medicine has failed. By focusing on the why as opposed to the what, they support the body's innate healing systems, rather than treating symptoms. Drawing on the principles of mind-body medicine, she combines Nutrigenomics, cutting-edge Functional Lab Work and Psychology to create truly personalised Diet, Rest, Exercise, Stress Management and Supplements (DRESS) for Health Success plans.   How do women struggle with health while oscillating for and everything else?   Do you need to run expensive and unusual labs and complicate protocols?   What is the right sequential approach to keeping things simple but getting the most change?   What constitutes as sugar?   What is the physiological change required to help you sleep better?   What does SLEEP stand for in helping you sleep?   How is less more?   For more on Raewyn Guerrero, you can follow her:   Clubhouse: https://clubhousedb.com/user/raewyng  Facebook: facebook.com/groups/wellworks  Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellworks.co   YouTube https://youtube.com/c/WellWorks  Website: well-works.co  Related Episodes:   061 - Micronutrients & Sleep With Dr Smita Patel, Integrative Neurologist    055 - 1st Anniversary! Doctor Of The Future Is The Patient With Sachin Patel    044 - Be A Sleep Detective With Suzie Senk    039 - Nutrients & Supplements For Sleep with Shae Leonard   028 - How To Use Nutrition, Supplements, And Habits To Create An Epic Sleep  with Derek Henry      -For more on Deepa:   Deepa is a Yoga therapist for over two decades and a Functional Nutritionist for five. She brings together her experience in therapeutic & transformational yoga and deep learning in nutrition based on the principles of functional medicine to her practice Phytothrive. The focus has been on merging together the deep science of the functional world with the deep symbolism of ancient wisdom. She has a masterful understanding of the human anatomy with cohesive understanding of physiology to offer what can be classified as true bio-individual mind, body & spirit nutrition. Having a son with a rare adrenal condition gave her a deep insight into the working of the adrenals and the stress response, as it relates to all health and sleep.    Her articles have been shared by Dr Mark Hyman, MD, a 13 times NY Times Bestselling Author twice. She also gave the opening speech on Health Hacks at Amazon Web Services & YourStory HeathTech 2019 to heads of healthcare start-ups in India. Deepa has twenty years of experience in wellness, where she has focus on sleep nutrition, women's health, detoxification, skin health and adrenal function. She is in the YourStory100 Digital Influencers Of 2020. Her book on sleep was acquired by HarperCollins and will release in early 2022.    Weekly Newsletter:

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27 tháng 6 là ngày gì? Hôm nay là sinh nhật của Lương Triều Vỹ SỰ KIỆN 1967 – Máy rút tiền tự động (ATM) do ông Shepherd-Barron sáng chế được lắp đặt tại một chi nhánh của ngân hàng Barclays Plc ở khu vực ngoại ô phía bắc London. Sinh 1899 – Juan Trippe, người sáng lập Pan American World Airways 1962 – Lương Triều Vỹ, diễn viên người Hồng Kông, giữ vai trò Tiểu Hổ trong Ngũ hổ tướng TVB. Lương Triều Vỹ là một trong những diễn viên châu Á xuất sắc nhất mọi thời đại. Ông là nam diễn viên Hồng Kông đầu tiên giành giải Nam diễn viên xuất sắc nhất tại Liên hoan phim Cannes với bộ phim Tâm trạng khi yêu (2000), và hiện đang giữ kỷ lục về số lần chiến thắng giải Nam diễn viên chính xuất sắc nhất tại cả Giải thưởng Điện ảnh Hồng Kông lẫn Giải Kim Mã. 1977 – Raúl González, là một cựu cầu thủ bóng đá người Tây Ban Nha chơi ở vị trí tiền đạo. Phần lớn sự nghiệp thi đấu của Raul là tại câu lạc bộ Tây Ban Nha Real Madrid cho đến năm 2010 và là cầu thủ ghi bàn xuất sắc nhất mọi thời đại của câu lạc bộ sau Cristiano Ronaldo. 1975 - Tobey Maguire , diễn viên người Mỹ. Anh được biết đến nhiều nhất với vai diễn Người nhện Peter Parker 1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova , là nữ vận động viên quần vợt người Nga, từng xếp thứ 2 thế giới trên bảng xếp hạng của WTA. 1992 - Ahn So-hee , nữ ca sĩ kiêm diễn viên Hàn Quốc. cựu thành viên nhóm nhạc Wonder Girls do JYP quản lý nhưng đã rời JYP. Hiện cô đang đầu quân cho KeyEast, tập trung vào diễn xuất. Mất 1942 – Thạch Lam, tên thật là Nguyễn Tường Vinh, là một nhà văn Việt Nam thuộc nhóm Tự Lực văn đoàn. Ông là em ruột của hai nhà văn khác cũng trong nhóm Tự Lực văn đoàn là Nhất Linh và Hoàng Đạo. Chương trình "Hôm nay ngày gì" hiện đã có mặt trên Youtube, Facebook và Spotify: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aweekmedia - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AWeekTV - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rC4CgZNV6tJpX2RIcbK0J... #aweektv #27thang6 Các video đều thuộc quyền sở hữu của Adwell jsc, mọi hành động sử dụng lại nội dung của chúng tôi đều không được phép. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aweek-tv/message

In this episode, Jessica hosts former EWF Executive Director, Lynn Terwoerds. From ‘classics to cybersecurity’, Lynn walks us through her career journey and how it led to her current portfolio life. Lynn also explains her helpful guiding principles such as -Change is not only good, but it also mattersPay it forward – everyone has the ability to give backYou are the best investment you’ll ever makeLearn the difference between a dream and a planFind your peopleGuest: Lynn Terwoerds, Digital Resilience LLCFor more than 21 years, Lynn Terwoerds has been a technology thought leader and cybersecurity strategist for global companies – Microsoft, Barclays PLC, Oracle Global Healthcare, Executive Women's Forum. Her career journey spans from hands-on experience running global security incident response to top secret clearance working on critical infrastructure long term security strategy. Lynn’s background also includes leadership positions in multiple vertical markets ranging from technology to banking and healthcare. She’s supported the EWF since the beginning and serves on their advisory board. Today she is semi-retired, splitting her day between nonprofit and corporate advisory board service, and cybersecurity consulting through her business, Digital Resilience LLC. Host: Jessica Patterson, Mindful Business Mentor and Cybersecurity Professional, OptivJessica Valentine is a mindful business mentor and cybersecurity professional.Her breadth of experience in strategy, operations, program management, and client services allow her to apply a holistic approach to secure client’s digital transformation initiatives at Optiv, a security solutions integrator.Her notable achievements include creating the inaugural cybersecurity internship program for Dell, launching her own non-profit, Own I.T., for women in cybersecurity, and teaching yoga at the RSA conference and EWF National Conference in 2019. As an industry speaker and wellness entrepreneur, Jessica Valentine is passionate about empowering women to embody their vision and weave wellness with work. She is currently developing her own methodology to offer to individuals and organizations seeking fulfillment, engagement, and holistic professional development. She is an activist for diversity, equity, and inclusion and women’s initiatives and is inspired to pioneer a new path for the next generation of leaders in our field.Instagram @iamjessicavalentine | Website: www.jessicavalentinepatterson.comSupport the show (https://www.ewf-usa.com/)

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Lynn Terwoerds, the Executive Director of the Executive Women's Forum, shares what she's learned about how to make it to the next level in your career. Lynn shares what she hopes will help women see the value in knowing what you want, building a plan to that goal, knowing yourself personally and as others see you, and then being able to tell a consistent story so that everyone you meet, everyone in your current network, even people who bump into your family will see and hear a coherent message about your career direction. So often, we confuse the people around us by being vague, inconsistent or uncertain. Getting to the next level is about making sure you stack the odds in your favor by taking control of the things you have control over and not obsessing over the things you can't control.In this episode, Lynn points us to some great resources including the Critical Thinking Worksheet, Leading Ladies “Why” Tool, and the Networking Worksheet. This episode is full of incredibly helpful, practical, tactical, and strategic things you can do to identify:What do I really want?How do I devise a resilient plan?Where am I in my journey?How do I include my family and friends in this journey?How do I build the right network?About Lynn TerwoerdsLynn Terwoerds, Executive Director, joined the Executive Women's Forum in 2016 after 20+ years as a global cybersecurity expert and leader at Microsoft, Barclays PLC in London, and Oracle. She is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and serves on the nonprofit board and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee for the Northwest Maritime Center. As the Executive Director, Terwoerds has overall strategic and operational responsibility for staff, programs, expansion, and execution of the EWF mission. The Executive Director, in conjunction with the CEO and staff, develops core programs and strategic business plans.

Risk off sell everything, payrolls preview, equity volatility is the only escape valve and fasten your seat beltThis week’s report Be Greedy When Others are FearfulFigure 1: SPX risk is the S&P 500 Volatility, the Volatility of Volatility, correlation and skew indices as well as the term structure of VIX futures (6 month less 1 month) in a z-score format. Wednesday it expanded to 2.43 standard deviations, it remained above 2 on Thursday and Friday. We consider these readings high relative to underlying economic conditions. The election and latest surge in Covid-19 cases appear reasonably discounted.Please consider becoming a paid subscriber, or if you are an institutional client, on boarding us to your research platform to read our full note and gain access to our client presentation, measures of risk and valuation, recommended reading list and additional products. If you would like a 30-day free trial or would like to discuss our research with me directly, please email bcknapp@ironsidesmacro.com. Click below for details, for individual subscriptions the price is $89/month.Lehman Veterans Knapp, Curnutt Reunite at Macro Risk Advisors2020-10-30 16:14:49.326 GMTBy Sonali Basak(Bloomberg) -- Barry Knapp is reuniting with former LehmanBrothers Holdings Inc. colleague Dean Curnutt as the duo seek toexpand their work advising large investors.Knapp, who previously worked at Guggenheim Securities andBlackRock Inc., is keeping his own research firm, IronsidesMacroeconomics, while also working as a senior adviser toCurnutt’s Macro Risk Advisors. The two worked together in the1990s at Lehman during what Knapp calls the “glory days ofequity derivatives.”“We were doing ETF-like transactions with macro hedge fundsbefore there were ETFs,” Knapp said in a phone interview,referring to exchange-traded funds. “I did a Russell 2000 swapbefore there were Russell 2000 futures.”Curnutt founded his company in 2008 to advise institutionalinvestors on market risks. He previously was head of equitysales and trading at Bank of America Corp. and, before that,worked in the equity derivatives unit at Lehman in the fouryears through 1999, according to his LinkedIn profile.Knapp joined BlackRock’s fixed-income investment-managementdivision in 2014, after almost two decades at Lehman and thenfive years at Barclays Plc. He joined Guggenheim in 2017 andleft about a year later.Knapp’s “macro expertise will be a welcome addition to theset of tools we bring to clients to help navigate markets andrisk at a time of great uncertainty,” Curnutt said by phone.“Having known Barry for 25 years and worked with him before, Ihave a strong appreciation for his talents and expertise.”If there are any questions about the above Bloomberg story please contact meBarry C. KnappManaging PartnerDirector of ResearchIronsides Macroeconomics LLC908-821-7584bcknapp@ironsidesmacro.comhttps://ironsidesmacro.substack.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-c-knapp/@barryknappReading ListLatest Book: “A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2, Book 1, 1951-1969”, Allan H. MeltzerNext Book: “Human Action, The Scholar’s Edition”, Ludwig von Mises“Trade Wars Are Class Wars”, Matthew C. Klein & Michael Pettis“Showdown at Gucci Gulch, Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform”, Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Alan S. 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Classic 1027 — Absa is celebrating substantial completion of its separation programme from Barclays PLC, three years after the start. The separation, one of the largest and most complex corporate programmes of its kind, followed Barclays PLC’s 2016 decision to reduce its shareholding in the African group to a minority position. Barclays became the majority shareholder in Absa in 2005 and the two groups subsequently integrated systems, processes and policies over time. Michael Avery sits down with Absa Engineering Services CE Paul O’Flaherty, Paul, to find out how his team managed to unscramble that omelette. A herculean effort, but coming from Arcelor Mittal and Eskom, perhaps not quite a Sisyphean task as turning those ships round for O’Flaherty.

Wenn uns eins inden letzten 24 Stunden klar wurde, dann das: Fintech ist nicht tot. Ganz im Gegenteil, eine Welle der Funding Nachrichten erreichte uns in den letzten Tagen. Enorme Summen wurden in mehrere Fintechs als “Wachstumsbeschleuniger” investiert u.a. in das Fintech des Gründers Marc-Alexander Christ, SumUp. Mit genau diesem haben sich André und Kilian virtuell getroffen um mit ihm über die vorerst roten Zahlen, die in der Presse waren, nun die Hammer Investition und generell über die Entwicklung des mPOS-Marktes zu sprechen. Wer SumUp noch nicht kennt, hier eine kurze Zusammenfassung: SumUp ist ein Finanztechnologieunternehmen, das es Unternehmen jeder Größe ermöglicht, Zahlungen schnell und einfach zu erhalten, sowohl im Geschäft als auch online. Benannt als Europas am schnellsten wachsendes Unternehmen in der Inc. 5000' hat SumUp täglich über 4.000 Unternehmen, die sich der Plattform weltweit anschließen, und - mit seinen Kartenterminals, auf die Unternehmen von DHL bis hin zu Taxifahrern vertrauen. 2019 erwartet SumUp einen Umsatz von 200 Millionen Euro zu erzielen. Im Oktober 2018 veröffentlichte SumUp seinen 3G-Leser, ein Kartenterminal, mit dem Händler Zahlungen ohne mobile App oder ständige Wi-Fi-Verbindung abwickeln können. SumUps 100% digitale Anmeldung, schnelle Lieferung und schnelle und einfache Einrichtung bedeutet, dass Händler innerhalb weniger Minuten nach Erhalt ihres Kartenterminals mit digitalen Transaktionen ausgestattet werden können Aber zurück zum eigentlichen Thema: Bain Capital Credit, Goldman Sachs Private Capital, HPS Investment Partners und TPG Sixth Street Partners haben satte 330 Mio. € in SumUp investiert, welches das Unternehmen nutzen will um noch stärker und schneller zu wachsen und noch mehr neue Händler auf seinen 31 Märkten rund um den Globus zu gewinnen. Die neuen Mittel werden verwendet, um die Produktpalette von SumUp weiter auszubauen, sowohl organisch als auch durch weitere Akquisitionen (M&A). Das Unternehmen hat sein Produktportfolio kürzlich durch die Übernahme von Debitor für Buchhaltung und Fakturierung und Shoplo für E-Commerce und Marktplätze erweitert. Goldman Sachs International agierte als Lead-Strukturierungsagent, Barclays Plc als Strukturierungsagent und Weil, Gotshal & Manges fungierten als Rechtsberater von SumUp bei der Finanzierung. "Wir glauben an bezahlbare, einfache und zuverlässige Technologien, die es kleinen Unternehmen auf der ganzen Welt ermöglichen, erfolgreich das zu tun, was sie lieben", sagt Marc-Alexander Christ, Mitbegründer von SumUp, "Als eines der am schnellsten wachsenden Technologieunternehmen der Welt wird diese Finanzspritze das Wachstum unserer Kundenbasis deutlich beschleunigen, die Technologieführerschaft von SumUp stärken und die Entwicklung neuer Dienstleistungen vorantreiben.“ Um euch nochmal einen Überblick über den mPOS Markt zu geben, haben wir euch auch gleich eine tolle Grafik gebastelt die wir mit anhängen.

Wenn uns eins inden letzten 24 Stunden klar wurde, dann das: Fintech ist nicht tot. Ganz im Gegenteil, eine Welle der Funding Nachrichten erreichte uns in den letzten Tagen. Enorme Summen wurden in mehrere Fintechs als “Wachstumsbeschleuniger” investiert u.a. in das Fintech des Gründers Marc-Alexander Christ, SumUp. Mit genau diesem haben sich André und Kilian virtuell getroffen um mit ihm über die vorerst roten Zahlen, die in der Presse waren, nun die Hammer Investition und generell über die Entwicklung des mPOS-Marktes zu sprechen. Wer SumUp noch nicht kennt, hier eine kurze Zusammenfassung: SumUp ist ein Finanztechnologieunternehmen, das es Unternehmen jeder Größe ermöglicht, Zahlungen schnell und einfach zu erhalten, sowohl im Geschäft als auch online. Benannt als Europas am schnellsten wachsendes Unternehmen in der Inc. 5000' hat SumUp täglich über 4.000 Unternehmen, die sich der Plattform weltweit anschließen, und - mit seinen Kartenterminals, auf die Unternehmen von DHL bis hin zu Taxifahrern vertrauen. 2019 erwartet SumUp einen Umsatz von 200 Millionen Euro zu erzielen. Im Oktober 2018 veröffentlichte SumUp seinen 3G-Leser, ein Kartenterminal, mit dem Händler Zahlungen ohne mobile App oder ständige Wi-Fi-Verbindung abwickeln können. SumUps 100% digitale Anmeldung, schnelle Lieferung und schnelle und einfache Einrichtung bedeutet, dass Händler innerhalb weniger Minuten nach Erhalt ihres Kartenterminals mit digitalen Transaktionen ausgestattet werden können Aber zurück zum eigentlichen Thema: Bain Capital Credit, Goldman Sachs Private Capital, HPS Investment Partners und TPG Sixth Street Partners haben satte 330 Mio. € in SumUp investiert, welches das Unternehmen nutzen will um noch stärker und schneller zu wachsen und noch mehr neue Händler auf seinen 31 Märkten rund um den Globus zu gewinnen. Die neuen Mittel werden verwendet, um die Produktpalette von SumUp weiter auszubauen, sowohl organisch als auch durch weitere Akquisitionen (M&A). Das Unternehmen hat sein Produktportfolio kürzlich durch die Übernahme von Debitor für Buchhaltung und Fakturierung und Shoplo für E-Commerce und Marktplätze erweitert. Goldman Sachs International agierte als Lead-Strukturierungsagent, Barclays Plc als Strukturierungsagent und Weil, Gotshal & Manges fungierten als Rechtsberater von SumUp bei der Finanzierung. "Wir glauben an bezahlbare, einfache und zuverlässige Technologien, die es kleinen Unternehmen auf der ganzen Welt ermöglichen, erfolgreich das zu tun, was sie lieben", sagt Marc-Alexander Christ, Mitbegründer von SumUp, "Als eines der am schnellsten wachsenden Technologieunternehmen der Welt wird diese Finanzspritze das Wachstum unserer Kundenbasis deutlich beschleunigen, die Technologieführerschaft von SumUp stärken und die Entwicklung neuer Dienstleistungen vorantreiben.“ Um euch nochmal einen Überblick über den mPOS Markt zu geben, haben wir euch auch gleich eine tolle Grafik gebastelt die wir mit anhängen.

Richard Vague is currently one of the managing partners of Gabriel Investments and the president of the Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival. He is also the author of The Next Economic Disaster, a book with a new approach for predicting and preventing financial crises. Previously, he was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Energy Plus, an electricity and natural gas supply company that was sold to NRG Energy in 2011. Vague was also co-founder and CEO of two credit card companies – First USA, which grew to be the largest Visa issuer in the industry and which was sold to Bank One in 1997, and Juniper Financial, the fastest growing credit card issuer of the past decade, which was sold to Barclays PLC in 2004. Vague currently serves on the Penn Medicine Board, the boards of the Franklin Institute, the Museum of the American Revolution, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia and Friends of Rittenhouse Square. He serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Vague is also editor of the blog and email newsletter service Delanceyplace.com and of the website Debt-economics.org. Support Philly Who? Donate via Paypal, Venmo: @podphillywho, Become a Monthly Patron, Purchase a T-Shirt or Hat, Become a Sponsor

Monday 2nd April 2018.  SPECIAL DELIVERY Starting with the Model 3 Owners Club, and a story which definitely isn’t an April Fools! Franz von Holzhausen is the Tesla design supremo and the man responsible for the Model 3. So how amazing would it be to meet him. Well he can go one better than that. He said: ““I was on my way home from work and figured I’d swing by. I love to see the excitement from people like you and share what we’ve created.” The Model 3 buyer said: ““The car was flawless. I inspected every panel gap with a fine toothed comb and couldn’t find a millimeter of misalignment. After reading so many horror stories, I found it hard to believe there were no noticeable defects on the car. I said, “The panel gaps are literally perfect – did you make sure this one came out flawless like this?” He just smiled and said, “Nope, this is the first time I’m seeing this car, but things are always improving.” I continued down the four-page Model 3 delivery checklist another user posted on this forum and everything was absolutely perfect.”   BMW CHARGING BMW is announcing a massive expansion to its charging network in China with plans to install more than 80,000 charging poles in over 100 Chinese cities. The company’s goal is to have these poles up-and-running when its fleet of new electric cars hit the market in the coming years. As of 2017, the German automaker already has more than 65,000 charging poles in more than 90 Chinese cities.   GREENING UP EVS A new report on Green Car Congress points out how EVs, unlike gas cars, get greener as time goes on because of cleaner electricity production. They say: “Future electric vehicles are likely to have roughly 20% lower environmental impacts compared to current vehicles based on technological improvements alone. However, when considering also the future improvement of the electricity sector, these improvements are in the range of 30-70% for baseline and climate policy scenarios. This is an important conclusion that must be considered when making policy in the mobility sector as use of current results as a proxy for future technologies would be highly misleading.”   MAD DASH TO DELIVER MODEL  3S According to a Bloomberg report: “With pressure escalating after one of the worst weeks in its almost 15-year-history, Tesla raced to manufacture and deliver its mission-critical Model 3 sedan to burnish the numbers it’s about to report to rattled investors. Tesla’s Fremont, California, delivery hub was packed with people Saturday evening as the last hours of the quarter drew to a close. Red couches and tall white tables were set up outside, a DJ played music and a truck selling Vietnamese food was on hand. Behind the scenes, a company that’s struggled to figure out how to mass manufacture cars implored workers to get production on track and prove the doubters wrong. Barclays Plc analyst Brian Johnson has warned clients to watch out for a potential “burst rate bear trap,” in which Tesla beats Wall Street’s lowered projections for Model 3 deliveries. He estimates Tesla is producing 1,500 to 1,700 units of the Model 3 each week. We think it’s possible Tesla may have stockpiled batteries amid Fremont downtime, allowing production to be higher in the final week,” Johnson wrote in a report Thursday. “Any such ‘beat’ is unlikely to be sustainable, and questions remain on Tesla’s ability to sustainably reach” its production goals.   NO RISK GOING EV According to Autocar Professional: “"The head of Aston martin said “The Lagonda concept, as you know, will be there to challenge the duopoly of Rolls-Royce and Bentley," says Palmer in an exclusive interview with Autocar Professional. The Lagonda brand has been revived to lead Aston Martin's charge in the electric mobility space. He feels going electric is a "no-risk" strategy to compete against Rolls-Royce and Bentley in the super luxury segment. "Lagonda is going to compete with Rolls-Royce and one of the key attributes of a Rolls-Royce is that it is very quiet. And obviously the electric car is even quieter," says Palmer.”   I’d love to spread the word about electric cars so, if you can, share this somebody who might be interested. You can listen to every previous episode of this podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube, TuneIn, and the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – subscribe for free and get every new episode automatically and first. It would really mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on iTunes which will help us spread the word to a wider audience about electric cars. And if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing. Come and say hi on Twitter @EVNewsDaily, have a wonderful day, and I'll catch you tomorrow.   CONNECT WITH ME! evne.ws/itunes evne.ws/tunein evne.ws/googleplay evne.ws/youtube evne.ws/blog

Peter Cohen, Global Head of Media Banking at Barclays PLC, discusses the rapidly changing landscape of sports media -- including Walt Disney Co.’s purchase of a portion of 21st Century Fox’s sports assets, declining TV ratings for the National Football League and the value of regional sports networks. The media banker also discusses the resignation of ESPN President John Skipper, and the emergence of tech companies like Amazon and Twitter as bidders for future media rights. That’s helping fuel the skyrocketing valuations of sports franchises like the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, who will be sold during the off season by embattled owner Jerry Richardson. Cohen has run Barclays’s media banking division since 2015. Prior to joining Barclays, Cohen ran the Media and Entertainment division at Blackstone Group, where he advised on the $2.15 billion sale of baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers in 2012, then a record for a franchise transaction. Cohen also represented the Tribune Co. on its 2009 sale of the Chicago Cubs.

David Morgan on the gold and silver rally after the US presidential elections, the silver fix and its repercussions, and the effect of a Fed rate hike.Last time INN spoke to The Morgan Report author David Morgan was right after Donald Trump won the US presidency, and prices of commodities were surging. He says, “A lot of people anticipated a rally, but it happened in a space of 24 hours.”On election night, gold surged nearly 5 percent–its biggest single-day gain since June 2016. But when Trump took to the stage a few hours later, the price of gold plunged to $1,302.42. Gold dropped even further to $1,217.25 on a stronger US dollar and an anticipated Federal Reserve interest rate hike in December.Morgan believes that metal prices are not going to see new lows, as “the low was [in] last year, November-December 2015. Certainly we've given back a lot of the gains.”He also said that a Fed rate hike will not impact the precious metals market and said, it will have “very little effect–it is already priced into the market.”The silver fix and its repercussionsINN asked Morgan about the latest development on silver price manipulation. He questions that maybe more is to be revealed and says that it can have a lot of repercussions on how the market will move forward in 2017.Back in April, Deutsche Bank settled lawsuits on gold and silver price manipulation. Recently, court documents have resurfaced and UBS Group AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Bank of Nova Scotia and other firms have been named as part of the silver market manipulation. The Financial Post reported that plaintiffs have now named other banks such as Barclays Plc, BNP Paribas Fortis SA, Standard Chartered Plc and Bank of America as part of the scheme. 

Turns out Ghana’s top cop— Inspector General of Police John Kudalor thinks that blocking social media access across the country might be necessary to ensure Ghana’s national security on election day in November 2016. Mr Kudalor reckons that Ghana might do well to learn from the example set by other countries on the continent and around the world that have take similar steps in the recent past— Uganda no doubt being top of mind. It's likely that the Inspector General’s comments might have been made to test public sentiment on the issue ahead of the polls. However, if the chill we're picking up on Twitter is anything to go by, Ghanaians don’t seem to be terribly concerned at the prospect of having to survive 24 hours or so without access to Facebook and Twitter come November 7th. Ah, well… Meanwhile, in place of our discussion segment on the African Tech Round-up this week, we feature part of a recent in-depth conversation Andile Masuku had with Stephen van Coller, who is the Chief Executive for Corporate and Investment Banking at Barclays Africa. Listen in to hear Stephen tell Andile how Barclays Plc’s imminent plans to shed its investments in Africa will impact the business he runs, and why he is confident that fintech startups on the continent will never completely disrupt incumbents within the financial services industry. Bonus: Look out for a comment made by Nigeria’s leading podcaster, Andre Blaze Henshaw, on why he reckons that podcasting as a medium is going to be huge in the media scene of the future. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Stephen van Coller is the Chief Executive for Corporate and Investment Banking at Barclays Africa He is a Chartered Accountant who worked for Ernst & Young in South Africa and the UK for many years, before leaving the professional accounting industry to join Deutsche Bank— where he served as head of coverage and corporate advisory. Since joining Barclays in 2006, Stephen has held the positions of Deputy Chief Executive and Head of Investment Banking at Absa Capital and was appointed to his current position in 2009. In this extended chat, Stephen talks about how Barclays Plc’s imminent plans to shed its investments in Africa will impact the business he runs, and why he is confident that fintech startups on the continent will never completely disrupt incumbents within the financial services industry. Music Credits: All music by Brian Lupiya. Used with permission.

Barclays Africa CEO Maria Ramos says the bank will ensure that a change in shareholding in the company brings a satisfactory outcome for all stakeholders. Barclays PLC which owns sixty percent of Barclays Africa, the owners of Absa bank, announced its decision to reduce its stake in the African operation. Ramos says Barclays Africa's strategy will remain the same despite a change in shareholding. Tshepo Mongoai reports.

Grathel Motau, Chartered Accountant and Development Economist looks at Nersa's decision to granted Eskom an electricity tariffs hike of 9.4%, GDP growth figures released by StatsSA marginally higher than expected and Barclays Plc finally announced that it will exit its majority stake over the next 2 years.

Die Barclays Afrika-groep het Sondag 'n waarskuwing aan aandeelgouers gerig om die groep se aandele met omsigtigheid te verhandel. Barclays PLC het vanoggend (1 Maart) 'n verklaring uitgereik waarin hulle aankondig dat hulle 62% van hulle aandeelhouding in die Barclays Afrika-groep gaan verkoop. Die aankondiging beëindig maande van bespiegeling. Amelia Morgenrood, 'n portefeuljebestuurder by PSG Makelaars in Pretoria, het in 'n onderhoud met Mètzi van der Merwe voor die aankondiging, reeds vermoed dat Barclays sy belange in Afrika sal afskaal.

Join Scott Cluthe on FACEBOOK HERE  Get a FREE Book from 1,500 Titles from Scott HERE   8 PM EST-7 CST-6 MST-5 PST Call in: 347-308-8478 Scott Cluthe talks live with the author of the new book, The Next Economic Disaster-Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It, Richard Vague Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This illuminating and provocative work shows that it is the rapid expansion of private rather than public debt that constrains growth and sparks economic calamities like the financial crisis of 2008. Relying on the findings of a team of economists, credit expert Richard Vague argues that the Great Depression of the 1930s, the economic collapse of the past decade, and many other sharp downturns around the world were all preceded by a spike in privately held debt. Vague presents an algorithm for predicting crises and argues that China may soon face disaster. Since American debt levels have not declined significantly since 2008, Vague believes that economic growth in the United States will suffer unless banks embrace a policy of debt restructuring. Philanthropist and former banker Richard Vague is a managing partner of Gabriel Investments and Chairman of The Governor's Woods Foundation.Vague was also co-founder and CEO of two credit card companies - First USA, which grew to be the largest Visa issuer in the industry and which was sold to Bank One in 1997, and Juniper Financial, the fastest growing credit card issuer of the past decade, which was sold to Barclays PLC in 2004.

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