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The transaction will give Mizuho more than 60% of Avendus. Credit: Michael Berlfein/ Shutterstock.com. The Reserve Bank has granted conditional approval for Mizuho to acquire a controlling interest in Avendus Capital, reported The New Indian Express citing sources.   As part of the approval, the regulator has asked Mizuho to submit a detailed proposal for combining…

Key insight: Critics of the proposed SEC rules warned that they could weaken investor protections and eliminate state oversight. What’s at stake: As the SEC moves to establish a regulatory framework for crypto, industry insiders warn that the rules may lack the permanence of legislation passed by Congress. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rules…

For most of her life, Dr. Maria Raven lived in starkly modern houses—the white-walled, glass-heavy kind that defines a certain kind of California design. Then a century-old Berkeley residence showed up where she least expected it. “This home was at the bottom of an email my real estate agent sent me for a midcentury modern…

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Describing the current economic moment as “a time of great consequence,” Kevin Warsh took the podium in Jackson Hole, Wyo., at his first major speech as Federal Reserve chairman and cautioned that progress toward the U.S. central bank’s inflation goals has stalled. “We must be confident that underlying inflation is moving to our objective clearly…