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Moir will contribute to the development of EdenTree’s responsible and sustainable fixed income investment strategies alongside co-managers David Katimbo-Mugwanya and Michael Sheehan.

Swiss cryptocurrency custody firm Metaco’s CEO Adrien Treccani and chief product officer Peter DeMeo have left the company, according to a CoinDesk report.

Simona Halep has been fighting “the hardest match” of her life. Now, the former World No 1 and Wimbledon champion awaits the verdict of a three-person independent panel at the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) in Switzerland. If Halep loses, her career will be all but over, and tennis will have its biggest doping scandal since Maria Sharapova tested positive for meldonium in 2016. Halep is appealing a four-year ban imposed by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) after testing positive for the banned substance Roxadustat at the 2022 US Open, while investigators also found irregularities in her biological passport. Halep denies wrongdoing and has blamed contaminated nutritional supplements for the findings. The charges brought before the CAS panel are serious, however. Roxadustat is used for the treatment of anaemia, but in a sporting context is prohibited because of its capacity to boost the production of red blood cells in the body. Its effect is similar to EPO, the doping product that has plagued major endurance sports such as cycling’s Tour de France.

The UK’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Philip Hammond, has denied allegations that he may have been illegally lobbying for crypto company Copper.

Swiss banking giant UBS on Tuesday narrowly beat fourth-quarter earnings expectations and announced that it would recommence share buybacks worth up to $1 billion in the second half of the year.

The product, which utilises the on-chain issuance product framework offered by UBS Tokenize, is a call warrant with Xiaomi Corporation as the underlying stock. Billed by the bank as the "first natively issued warrant on a public blockchain" the warrant was sold to OSL Digital Securities Limited, a licensed virtual asset platform operator.Winni Cheuk, head of sales, Apac public distribution, UBS Global Markets says: "Created natively on a public blockchain in a permissioned environment, this innovative product enhances transparency, reduces transaction fees, streamlines settlement processes, and allows for more flexible trading hours.”UBS Tokenize is part of the Swiss bank's ongoing work in tokenization services and distributed ledger technology.

ZURICH (Reuters) — Holcim (SIX:HOLN)'s biggest shareholder has given his backing to the building material company's plan to spin off its North American business through a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Johannes Läderach, CEO of the family run luxury chocolate business, on a recent visit to India, told Mint."Though there is a free-trade agreement being negotiated between India and Switzerland which could be very helpful. This is because India is at the highest end of customs duties across the 20 markets we operate in. The duties are very complicated too based on varieties of chocolate being imported," he said.

Former Ottawa Senators player Alex Formenton has turned himself into London police headquarters Sunday.

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Emmanuel Macron as chief guest on Friday at the Republic Day celebrations, talks of deepening the 25-year-long strategic partnership is de rigueur. Along with defence, cutting-edge technology and clean energy mitigation exchanges, the French language itself became a strategic tool at the granular, citizenry level. In this context, Macron's announcement of plans to encourage Indians to pursue higher studies in France and to learn French is tres bonne. For Indians, French provides yet another passport to growing opportunities in the world — and a conduit for taking bits of India across the world adding to a growing Maha Akhand Bharat.

fascination with AI advancements. As part of the deal, the Redmond, Washington software giant would supply computing power — such as from one of its data centers in rural Iowa — needed to train the AI models on huge troves of human-written texts and other media. In turn, Microsoft would get exclusive to rights to much of what OpenAI built, enabling the technology to be infused into a variety of Microsoft products.

Caroline Simmons (pictured) is set to join from UBS Global Wealth Management, where she has been chief investment officer of its UK wealth management business since 2020.

Charlotte Simmons (pictured) is set to join from UBS Global Wealth Management, where she has been chief investment officer of its UK wealth management business since 2020.

Neeraj Chopra now wants the country to go a notch higher in the pecking order by hosting global events in the next two-three years. India is set to bid for the 2029 World Athletics Championships but Chopra said the country can host other global competitions of smaller scale before that. «It will be good if we host 2029 World Championships but 2029 is a long way to go.

An inital $35 million target was exceeded with Azimut Holding, a global asset management group and existing client, as the lead investor.The round pushes Sygnum's valuation up to $900 million, a $100 million uplift from its $90 million Series B in october 2022.Since then, Sygnum's assets under administration have grown to over $4 billion, with a client base of over 1,700 from more than 60 countries. Alongside the increase in valuation, the group continued to grow its global team through the 'crypto winter', now nearing 250 employees.

Sygnum AG, a global digital asset bank, has successfully raised $40 million in a strategic funding round led by Azimut Holding.

Switzerland’s financial markets authority is getting a new chief executive as the country looks at ways to strengthen banking regulations following the crisis at Credit Suisse