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Harvard University is tapping a white-hot lawyer with conservative bona fides to fight the Trump administration’s threat to withhold billions in funding, betting his ties to the president and experience guiding billionaires through legal thickets can win the school a reprieve.

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Diageo PLC, an alcoholic beverage company known for brands like Baileys liqueur, Guinness beer, and Johnnie Walker whiskey, has hired back Randall Ingber as its general counsel and company secretary.

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Standard Chartered Bank estimates the size of the stablecoin market could surge by about 10-fold to $2 trillion within the next three years after the expected passage of US legislation that seeks to provide a regulatory framework for the cryptocurrencies.