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#businesspeople

With its colorful text and whimsical, cartoonish animations, the website for Spice Capital looks more like the online portfolio of a recent art school graduate than the landing page of a venture capital firm.But perhaps that's the point.Maya Bakhai, 28, founded her company in October 2021 with the goal of adding some seasoning to the predominantly white, male, fleece-vest-clad field of venture capital.

With all the talk about higher rents, inflation, rent control, evictions and the like, people need to better understand how rents are actually determined in the real real estate world.Rents are determined by decisions made every day by hundreds of thousands of landlords, big and small, who try to fill their apartments.

Authorities raided the Paris offices of five banks Tuesday on suspicion of tax fraud, French prosecutors said.The raids come as part of five preliminary investigations opened in December 2021 on allegations of money laundering and tax fraud linked to dividend payments, the French National Financial Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.

Britain's foreign minister is meeting politicians and businesspeople in Belfast on Wednesday, bearing good news: The U.K. and the European Union are inching closer to settling a post-Brexit trade dispute that has brought economic headaches and political turmoil to Northern Ireland.James Cleverly is traveling to Belfast two days after Britain and the EU made a significant breakthrough, striking a data-sharing agreement that will give the EU access to real-time information about goods moving to Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K. The two sides said the agreement is a critical prerequisite to building trust and providing assurance things that have been in short supply since Britain left the bloc in 2020 and provided a new basis for EU-U.K. discussions.