The FT paper is part of the Financial Times Group, which also includes my employer, mergermarket.

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According to the Financial Times, the group is calling for swift changes in management at the bank.

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Facebook founding president Sean Parker and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt have invested in a private equity fund at boutique merchant bank The Raine Group, according to a Financial Times report today.

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Shareholder action group Pirc has written to the Financial Times, asking that John Griffith-Jones step down from the FCA while KPMG's role is probed.

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Chrystia Freeland, who went to Moscow in 1994 as bureau chief for the Financial Times, at the age of 26, was an outstanding figure in the latter group.

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On April 30th, it claimed, erroneously, that the Pearson Group, which owns a slice of El Mundo and the whole of the Financial Times (of London), which in turn owns half of The Economist, is bent on buying Mediaset, the company embracing Mr Berlusconi's television empire.

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In the financials, you can buy Allstate Corp. (38, ALL), CIT Group (31, CIT) and Heller Financial (23, HF) for around 11 times their 1999 projected earnings.

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