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With mounting scrutiny of live-stream shopping, Whatnot grows its Dublin trust-and-safety team

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By Jonathan Keane Verified
| The Currency Verified
Whatnot, the live-streaming shopping app now valued at nearly €20 billion, is stepping up its content moderation functions operated out of Dublin. On the platform, streamers flog collectible items, from rare baseball cards to sneakers, with users bidding sometimes astronomical sums in a style that mashes the e-commerce of eBay with the jollity of TikTok.
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How WElink’s “fruitful” deal with a Chinese state-owned firm went sour

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By Jonathan Keane Verified
| The Currency Verified
WElink, the Irish renewable energy company, is staring down a complex legal dispute with a Chinese state-owned engineering firm, with claims and counterclaims nearing €100 million. An ongoing court case in the UK has pitted several companies in the WElink group against China Triumph International Engineering Co (CTIEC) in a row over three UK solar farm projects. WElink develops solar energy and housing infrastructure. CTIEC is a subsidiary of CNBM, a Chinese state-owned building materials giant.
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From Russia with love: Aircraft lessors’ long winding pursuit of settlements rumbles on

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By Jonathan Keane Verified
| The Currency Verified
AerCap’s mission to recover aircraft and funds tied up in Russia since the Ukraine war kicked off has crossed the $3 billion (€2.6 billion) mark. The Irish aircraft leasing giant, in its latest quarterly earnings, disclosed that in the first six months of 2026 it had recouped $28 million from a Russian airline and its Russian insurer over two aircraft stranded in the country. This bought AerCap’s total pre-tax recoveries related to the Russia-Ukraine war to $3 billion.
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