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By Philip Stephens for Financial Times The other day Angela Merkel took a few hours out from

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By Lidiana Rosli for New Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR: Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today announced six

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By FinSMEs Indio, a San Francisco, CA-based commercial insurance platform for brokers, secured $2m in

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By Oliver Ralph for Financial Times Insurer to crunch through Facebook posts to work out who merits

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