Worldline Hires Auditor to Assess Risky Clients, Chairman Says
The audit has been assigned to a firm called Accuracy and Worldline plans to publish the findings along with earnings on July 30, Chairman Wilfried Verstraete told the newspaper Les Echos in an interview. The company is also hiring Oliver Wyman to review its control systems, he said.
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Chinese automakers gain ground in contracting European market, data shows
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The US exports, which include industrial goods such as Boeing Co. aircraft, US-made cars and bourbon whiskey, would face a levy that matches Trump's 30% threat, according to people familiar with the matter. The threatened retaliation from Brussels would hit about one-third of American exports to the EU, based on the €335 billion worth of US goods shipped to the bloc last year. The tariffs would be prepared to come into force next month but only if there is no deal and the US implements its levies after the August deadline, said the people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. The euro extended a fall after the report, down 0.3% at $1.1723, leading losses among major currencies. German bonds trimmed an earlier decline. The plans come as EU member states, including Germany, have hardened their positions in response to the US stiffening its negotiating stance. Berlin would be willing to even support the activation of the EU's anti-coercion instrument, or ACI, in a no-deal scenario, a government official said on condition of anonymity. This tool would come into play only if a deal fails to materialize. Trump announced two tariff deals on Tuesday — one with the Philippines and another with Japan, and both featured across-the-board duties on their imports that were lower than initially threatened. Also noteworthy was the 15% US levy on Japanese autos that was lower than the current 25% rate on major car exporters including the EU. European leaders are in Tokyo and Beijing this week for talks with some of the the bloc's biggest trading partners in Asia. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, speaking with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday, said the EU hasn't yet brought anything as innovative as the Japanese offer. 'Talks are going better than they had been,' he said in the interview. 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'Without such an agreement, we risk economic uncertainty at a time when we actually need exactly the opposite.' The Commission, the EU's executive arm, is discussing the instrument with member states, the people said. While some capitals having been pushing to use the tool, most want to wait to see how the situation develops beyond Aug. 1 before progressing discussions further to try to achieve the required majority, they added. The overwhelming preference is to keep negotiations with Washington on track in a bid for an outcome to the impasse ahead of next month's deadline. EU and US negotiators are scheduled to continue talks on Wednesday. The US is now seen to want a near-universal tariff on EU goods higher than 10%, with increasingly fewer exemptions limited to aviation, some medical devices and generic medicines, several spirits, and a specific set of manufacturing equipment that the US needs, Bloomberg previously reported. 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While most capitals and officials accept that any agreement would be asymmetrical in favor of the US and see the EU facing higher than 10% rates, the bloc has been seeking wider exemptions than the US is offering, as well as looking to shield the bloc from future sectoral tariffs. The EU's €100 billion list would cover its response to Trump's universal duties as well as his tariffs on metals and cars. The level of pain that member states are prepared to accept varies, and some are open to landing on a higher 15% levy if enough exemptions are secured and the scope of the duty was clear, the people said. In addition to the tariffs on goods, the bloc's executive arm is also working on measures that could see export controls as well as restrictions on some services and public procurement contracts introduced in future, they said. --With assistance from Greg Ritchie and Annmarie Hordern. 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Tom Hayes: Winning Supreme Court challenge is an incredible feeling
A former financial trader who was jailed for 11 years has said winning his decade-long legal battle to have his convictions quashed is an 'incredible feeling'. On Wednesday the Supreme Court quashed the convictions of former Citigroup and UBS trader Tom Hayes. In 2015 he was found guilty of multiple counts of conspiracy to defraud over manipulating the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (Libor) between 2006 and 2010. Speaking after his convictions were overturned, Mr Hayes, who arrived at court wearing a Kenny Rogers The Gambler t-shirt, said he was not 'bitter' about his experience. He told a press conference: 'I always believed that it would happen. I always had confidence it would happen.' Mr Hayes added: 'This wasn't a gamble for me. My trial judge called me a gambler. 'So I decided today I would wear a T-shirt, a Kenny Rogers Gambler T-shirt.' Mr Hayes added: 'I'm really very grateful to the Supreme Court. We've had a consistent set of decisions from every other tribunal, and they were all to lose, and I got asked at my last appeal how I felt after we lost, and I said: 'Well, ask me when we've won.' 'Because I knew how it feels to lose, and today I'm learning how it feels to have won, and it's an incredible feeling.' He added that going to prison, losing all his money, and missing out on five years of his son's life has taught him not to value 'things'. Mr Hayes also said he became a Christian in prison, where he used to have the 'angry test, because the people who were angry, were innocent, because they were so annoyed about and frustrated with the miscarriage of justice they'd gone through'. He said: 'I'm a better person today than when I went into prison. My faith really helps me overcome a lot of the anger to see myself through that sentence. 'I had a lot of stuff. Money enables you to buy more stuff and more stuff on top of that and your goal is to require more stuff again. 'But when all your stuff is taken away from you, and then your liberty is taken away from you, and your dignity gets taken away from you, and your family gets taken away from you and your children get taken away from you, what are you left with, and do you miss the stuff? 'When I got to my open prison, being able to walk on the grass barefoot and see the stars in the sky was such an amazing thing. 'Going on a train, crossing the road, and then when I got released after five-and-a-half years into Covid, walking around Regent's Park in the snow and hearing a lion's roar, those were just amazing things for me, it was so powerful. 'I've really learned what you should value in your life as a result of what's happened to me. I'm not chasing stuff anymore.' Mr Hayes said he did not know what he would do next, but that suddenly the 'vista of freedom and choice' had opened up to him, and he would like to go and live near a large body of water.
