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The digital push comes as the bank is exiting several markets to become simpler and as it fully privatized its Hong Kong bank Hang Seng in January.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

“I call this the social welfare state of two. We’ve privatized dependency within marriage.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

But across the island, small-scale farmers and cooperatives already operate as private entrepreneurs, growing food, managing their own production and selling to local markets, most of which have been privatized.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026

YPF is an emblematic Argentine company founded in the early 20th century as a state-owned entity but it was privatized in 1993 and eventually came under the control of Repsol.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

These woolen factories became major employers of people whose families had been displaced when land was privatized.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz