company:bain

Kraken Is Valued At $4 Billion, And #bitcoin Tops Google Search In 2018
▻https://hackernoon.com/kraken-is-valued-at-4-billion-and-bitcoin-tops-google-search-in-2018-c65

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The State of The Market — December 13, 2018BTC: $3,440.26 (-1.17%)XRP: $0.304427 (-1.03%)ETH: $90.52 (-0.44%)After a few action-packed days, the market is relatively calm today. Bitcoin is trading above $3,400 and is not expected to crash below $3,000 anytime soon. With a few more days left for 2018, a short-term rally is possible as institutional platforms launch. The market changed by just $1 Billion today. Dentacoin (DCN) is up by nearly 18%, making it the top gainer in the last 24 hours.In other news, Basis, a stablecoin which raised $133 million from Alphabet’s venture capital arm GV, Baincapital Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and others, is closing its doors due to regulatory issues, according to The Block. Basis plans to return most of the funds it raised. Also, Allianz Global (...)

#cryptocurrency #blockchain #cryptocurrency-news #cryptocurrency-investment

Molly Nilsson live @le Petit Bain, paris Le 23 juillet 2015
▻https://youtube.com/watch?v=IoMTpZY0t_c

Aidons les Samsonite !
▻http://www.la-bas.org/article.php3?id_article=2938

En 2012, nous avions suivi les anciens salariés de l’usine Samsonite de Rouvroy dans leur combat contre les patrons voyous et le fonds d’investissement américains responsables de leur licenciement. Grâce à vos dons, elles avaient pu assister au procès contre Bain Capital à Boston. Aujourd’hui, elles ont toujours besoin de vous ! Jeudi 13 février 2014, nous avons reçu ce message sur le répondeur de Là-bas si j’y suis :

« Salut, c’est Brigitte, ex-salariée de chez Samsonite. Les camarades et moi étant licenciés en 2007 suite à un rachat frauduleux de notre usine, qui a été programmé par le fonds d’investissement Bain Capital à New York, nous avons attaqué en justice le responsable Bain Capital. Une audience a eu lieu l’an dernier, et maintenant nous allons en appel au tribunal de Boston. Pour multiplier (...)

Map of Europe, for blind
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Bain News Agency, c1910-1915

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#aveugles #cartographie

Et pendant ce temps (de sang et de larmes),

How big is the Lebanese luxury market ?
▻http://www.executive-magazine.com/special-report/how-big-is-the-lebanese-luxury-market/1473

... consulting firm Bain & Co estimates the regional luxury goods markets [is] worth 6.3 billion euros ($8.37 billion), or 3 percent of the global market for luxury goods. 

According to Bain, over 40 percent of the 6.3 billion euros are generated in the United Arab Emirates alone, which together with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain account for over 90 percent of the MENA region’s spending on luxury goods. This assumption leaves a very humble pie for vendors of luxury goods in other MENA countries including Lebanon, (...) 

One result of Bain research will be of interest to retail organizations in the region: upscale shopping malls have been a smashing success for marketing luxury goods in the Middle East. Dubai Mall is a particularly big magnet for big spenders, accounting for about half the luxury market in Dubai which in turn represents 30 percent, or about 2 billion euros, of the regional market by Bain’s reckoning. That means that Dubai Mall achieved luxury turnover of 1 billion euros ($1.32 billion) in 2012.

Thirty-eight percent of Middle Eastern survey respondents — nota bene all from the GCC as per the report’s maps — identified inheritance as the source of their wealth, the highest rate in the world.

’Is there no limit to what this Government will privatise?’: UK’s blood supply sold to US private equity firm Bain Capital
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/is-there-no-limit-to-what-this-government-will-privatise-uks-blood-su

The Government was tonight accused of gambling with the UK’s blood supply by selling the state owned NHS plasma supplier to a US private equity firm.

#privatisation #santé

Mitt Romney, Monsanto Man
►http://www.thenation.com/article/169885/mitt-romney-monsanto-man

The romance between Romney and Monsanto began back in 1977, when the recently minted Harvard Law and Business School graduate joined Bain, the Boston-based consulting firm launched in 1973, the same year Monsanto became one of its first clients. One of Bain’s founding partners, Ralph Willard, described to the Boston Globe in 2007 how “Romney learned the technical aspects of the chemical business so thoroughly that he sounded as if he had gone to engineering school instead of business school,” and that Monsanto executives soon began “bypassing” him to go directly to Romney.

Bain Capital Tied to Surveillance Push in China - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/world/asia/bain-capital-tied-to-surveillance-push-in-china.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=

As the Chinese government forges ahead on a multibillion-dollar effort to blanket the country with surveillance cameras, one American company stands to profit: Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney.

In public comments and in a statement posted on his campaign Web site, Mr. Romney has accused the Obama administration of placing economic concerns above human rights in managing relations with China.

“The scale of intrusion into people’s private lives is unprecedented,” she said in a phone interview. “Now when I walk on the street, I feel so vulnerable, like the police are watching me all the time.”

#surveillance #Chine #États-Unis #business