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Guests included the Financial News Fintech40 – the group named by FN as the most influential in European Fintech in June – as well as venture capitalists, bank and exchange executives, accelerators and start-ups.

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This week's inaugural Financial News and WSJD Fintech Conference brought together over 100 of the best and brightest in Europe's flourishing fintech scene

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FN and WSJD Fintech Conference: What they said

Anna Irrera

Citi shuts Málaga office it opened to battle banker burnout

A&O Shearman boss Hervé Ekué: ‘My godfather was accused in a failed coup… he inspired me to be a lawyer’

A&O Shearman boss Hervé Ekué on skyrocketing pay rises: ‘We haven’t reached the top’

Fiera Capital managing partner Catherine O’Reilly exits

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The former Goldman Sachs  and TCI Fund Management employee has also stepped down from her board role at UK trade body the Investment Association

Who is JPMorgan’s new UK private banking boss?

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Maricé Brown is ‘JPMorgan through and through’ but is an unfamiliar name in the City

Ex-Bank of America trader joins Sumo as head of systematic fixed income trading

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Jugakalpa Das’ six-member pod will start trading for Sumo in July

Israel’s attack on Iran gave the greenback a boost after a long stretch of trouble. But the long-run prospects for the dollar don’t look good.

The shipments have propelled Ireland, a country of only 5.4 million people, to the second-largest goods-trade imbalance with the U.S., trailing only China.

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The satellite operator said the capital increase would support its strategy, driven by strong market momentum in the Low Earth Orbit-enabled connectivity market.

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The uptick was likely fuelled by easing price inflation and a cut to interest rates in May.

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The unprecedented pace of change brought by AI is forcing the software maker to reinvent itself, said Salesforce’s chief futures officer.

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