Rio de Janeiro is abandoning its promise to treat the raw sewage polluting the Guanabara Bay as workers building a pipeline network and treatment plant are being fired and the state sinks into fiscal crisis. A $450 million loan agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank to build the infrastructure needed to collect and treat sewage will expire in March and the Brazilian Treasury won’t allow its extension, according to Rio’s environment secretariat.
Category: Financial Services
Mobile fintech is here to stay with banking and payment services
Financial technology companies have become acutely aware of this shift and have been adapting to consumer demands for more mobile-friendly financial services as a result. Consider how millennials are moving more frequently toward digital banking.
Trump deepens Goldman ties as he builds out economic team
Trump is expected to pick Cohn to lead the White H… Early plans call for American hero-astronaut John Glenn to lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space. American hero-astronaut John Glenn will lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space.
Silver Traders’ – Stop Busters’ Seen as Rig Suit Smoking Gun
Silver traders at UBS Group AG and Deutsche Bank AG so regularly conspired with one another to trigger stop-loss orders that they coined a name for themselves: “STOP BUSTERS,” according to court documents. “And if u have stops…,” a UBS trader wrote in a June 8, 2011, chat detailed in recent court filings.