challenger
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Storey says that the result reaffirms Judo’s investment case as a high-growth challenger bank in a single product segment, operating against the backdrop of a low-growth concentrated banking sector.
While the chasing pack all have at least one game in hand, City's closest challengers Manchester United are 11 points behind, Chelsea 12 and Arsenal a further point behind in fourth.
From BBC
The timed culinary game show, held in the “kitchen stadium,” pitted a challenger against an Iron Chef to create delicious dishes using a “secret ingredient.”
“There is a strategic advantage for challengers to hold fire until after that event,” wrote JP Morgan economist Allan Monks in a note to clients.
Two-thirds of those winners were challengers, the analysis shows, and more than half were women, including many first-time contenders.
From Salon
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