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World Service,17 Oct 2018,53 mins

More Bank Chiefs Pull Out of Saudi Event

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HSBC, Credit Suisse and Standard Chartered have pulled out of a Saudi investor conference. We get analysis of the latest move, in the wake of the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, from Karen Young of the American Enterprise Institute and George Washington University. Also in the programme a YouTube gamer who posted videos of himself cheating at Fortnite is being sued by its developer Epic Games. Jon Fingas of technology website Engadget tells me more. Plus our reporter profiles the 300-year-old London wine supplier, Berry Brothers and Rudd. Roger Hearing is joined by August Turak, entrepreneur and author of The Business Secrets of Trappist Monks from North Carolina and Simon Littlewood, President of AC Growth Delivered in Singapore. (Picture: Riyadh skyline. Picture credit: BBC.)

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