Lionel Laurent is a Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. He covers a range of topics including international trade, cryptocurrency, and regional interests in North America and LATAM, with a particular focus on sports and sports business. Laurent's insights and analyses have been featured in prominent publications such as NDTV, The Washington Post, and The Australian Financial Review.
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Leaked emails highlight increased pressure on money laundering controls.
French corporate raider Vincent Bollore has been compared to Rupert Murdoch for his appetite for buying up media brands, steering them to the right and using them to gain influence — generating controversies, fines and a roster of pundits known collectively as the “Bollosphere.”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the tall, straight-talking head of Europe’s largest economy and biggest military spender, is the closest thing the continent has to a leader as France’s Emmanuel Macron nears the exit and America treats its friends worse than its enemies. With Merz’s domestic approval ratings on the floor after a year in power, and his reforms failing to catch light, this isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Vincent Bollore’s conservative media machine is getting louder as elections loom.
German artificial-intelligence startup Aleph Alpha GmbH had the markers of a European success story when it raised $500 million in 2023: A charismatic leader with Silicon Valley experience, a local billionaire backer in the shape of retail tycoon Dieter Schwarz and a government keen to nurture and champion a “sovereign” answer to the likes of Alphabet Inc. Today it faces an all too predictable end: A takeover by a larger North American rival after failing to scale up or raise the kind of cash ne
The need for tough decisions on structural reforms and competitiveness is getting urgent, he says.
Ever since Keir Starmer became UK prime minister there’s been hope of a reset in relations with the European Union. His Labour government and Brussels have both rued Brexit’s economic and political costs in a more hostile Trumpian world. The prospect of the cautious Starmer being dumped as PM has if anything heightened British expectations that whichever colleague replaces him will hasten the rapprochement. Unfortunately, the country’s leadership crisis may just make things harder.
The country is hoping its ability to draw data center investments will help it ride the AI boom.
The finance industry’s love of artificial intelligence has reached fever pitch — even in Europe, that traditional tech laggard. Beyond headline-grabbing announcements at HSBC Holdings Plc, or tin-eared ones from Standard Chartered Plc, ask any fund manager, banker or trader and you’re likely to hear stories of increasing adoption and experimentation.
By: Lionel Laurent
Some banks are already feeling the pinch as artificial intelligence firms raise charges. Financial services firms could find themselves trapped by AI tools that get increasingly expensive as companies align pricing with costs and profit pursuits.
