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    Future of Money · 9:57 AM UTC

    Global brands from Mercedes and Amazon to IKEA and Walmart are cutting out the traditional financial middleman and plugging in software from tech startups to offer customers everything from banking and credit to insurance.

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    Asia Pacific · 8:42 AM UTC

    Australia at centre of Indo-Pacific alliances to counter China

    Australia finds itself as the common link in a new mesh of global alliances centred on the Indo-Pacific that are all but in name aimed at countering China's rising military power and economic clout.

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    Lloyd's of London wants third of market's new hires to be ethnic minorities

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    Banks beware, Amazon and Walmart are cracking the code for finance

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