Denmark’s largest bank has lost its chief executive and seen its share price halve
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The first charges for money-laundering are laid against Danske Bank
AS EUPHEMISMS FOR suspected money-laundering go, “insufficiently legitimised” takes some beating. That is how Denmark’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) described some of Danske Bank’s customers in a report in 2012. The country’s largest bank now faces criminal charges at home and investigations elsewhere. The dirty-money scandal swirling around Danske is the largest ever uncovered. Over […]
John McCain was finally laid to rest next to his best friend at the military academy where he went to school
Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathan Burke/U.S. Navy via AP Senator John McCain was buried on Sunday at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. McCain trained there as a young man in the 1950s, and met his best friend Chuck Larson. Larson later became a US Admiral, and chose burial plots at the academy […]
Man Utd transfer news: Paul Pogba to Barcelona deal CAN happen – details laid bare
Barcelona emerged as suitors of Pogba on Wednesday amid conflicting reports in Spain and Italy. Barca director Eric Abidal denied claims made by newspaper Tuttosport that he held a secret meeting with Pogba in Beverly Hills. But Barcelona-based newspaper Mundo Deportivo claim Abidal’s denial left plenty of clues that Barca are interested in the player. […]
The mystery of MH370 is about to be laid to rest for good — here are all the theories, dead ends, and unanswered questions from the most bizarre airline disaster of the century
AP; iStock; Skye Gould/Business Insider Flight MH370 disappeared four years ago with 239 people on board. It vanished on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and only fragments have ever been found. Years of investigations failed to make sense of what happened to the plane. Conspiracy theories have grown as families of victims accuse the […]
Theranos has laid off most of its remaining staff
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Theranos has laid off about 100 employees, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. It’s the third round of layoffs in the past two years for the blood-testing company. At one point, the company had more than 700 employees. Tuesday’s layoff brings the headcount down to about 24, The Journal reported. In March, the […]
Juan Martin del Potro: HUGE challenge laid down to Argentine after stunning recent form
That’s the opinion of Sky Sports tennis pundit and former British female No 1 Annabel Croft. Del Potro’s 15-match winning streak saw him claim titles in Acapulco and Indian Wells – his first Masters 1000 success. But the world No 6 fell short of claiming the ‘Sunshine Double’ by triumphing in the Miami Open as […]
Inside BuzzFeed UK’s ‘brutal’ jobs cull, where almost a third of staff were laid off after the site overreached
Getty Images/Michael Kovac BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti admits the company “invested more than we should have earlier than we should have” in the UK. The NBCUniversal-backed firm made 39 British staff redundant in January, 23 of whom worked in the newsroom. A further 60 lost their jobs in the US. The job cuts were quick […]
Inside the beautiful cemetery where New York’s rich and powerful were laid to rest
Harrison Jacobs/Business Insider Deep in Brooklyn’s interior lies Green-Wood Cemetery, one of the largest and most prominent burial grounds in the United States. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Green-Wood was a premier final destination, housing the remains of New York City’s elite in fields as varied as business, art, industry, and politics. Among […]
What If Getting Laid Off Wasn’t Something to Be Afraid Of?
NORRKÖPING, Sweden—When Beate Autrum first heard that she and hundreds of other employees were getting laid off from the Whirlpool factory where she worked, she was terrified. Autrum, a single mother, had uprooted her whole life to move to Sweden from Germany to work for Whirlpool, and she worried about her immigration status, how she […]
