Press Digest-Financial Times - Aug 18
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- Kevin Lamour, a senior Fifa official who criticised President Gianni Infantino's now aborted plan to sell shares in a new commercial entity to private investors, has left world football's governing body.
- ExxonMobil XOM.N has revived plans to build a liquefied natural gas plant in Mozambique, as war in the Middle East bolsters the case for projects outside the region.
- Monzo chair Gary Hoffman is leaving the fintech months after some of its biggest shareholders called for his removal amid a boardroom battle over the ousting of the group's chief executive.
- The UK government is set to pay consultancies KPMG and EY up to £456 million ($617.61 million) to train civil servants in the largest deal awarded to Big Four firms in at least a decade.
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(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
Top Financial Times headlines
- Top Fifa official departs after attacking Infantino's plan to lure investors
