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  1. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  2. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  3. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  4. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  5. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  6. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  7. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  8. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  9. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  10. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  11. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  12. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  13. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  14. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  15. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  16. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Insurance, payments and financial services

8 companies holding 28 books.

AIGThe insurer whose London derivatives unit required a $182bn rescue; there is no single canonical book, and crisis-wide accounts carry much of the…7 books
American ExpressA payments and travel franchise with a long history but a thin book literature, concentrated on the turbulent 1980s.5 books
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Bloomberg L.P.Bloomberg sells one product on one price list: the Terminal, at roughly $30,000 a year per user with no discounts, to more than 300,000 subscribers,…2 books
FTXSam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange, collapsed in November 2022 with roughly $8bn of customer funds missing.6 books
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Lloyd's of LondonLloyd's is a marketplace rather than an insurance company: brokers bring risks to syndicates, and until the 1990s the capital behind those…2 books
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PayPalPayPal came from the 2000 merger of Elon Musk's X.com and Peter Thiel's Confinity, listed in 2002 and sold to eBay for $1.5 billion months later.3 books
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State FarmGeorge Mecherle founded State Farm in 1922 as a mutual auto insurer for farmers and it grew into the largest US personal lines insurer, owned by its…1 book
WirecardThe DAX-listed German payments firm that admitted 1.9bn euros did not exist; the serious English-language literature is essentially one book, with…2 books

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