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A Farage farrago, crypto crime and rivers of cash: the 2023 Observer business awards

Observer Alison Rose Sam Altman Changpeng Zhao Sarah Bentley United States Binance OpenAI Thames Water Crypto

Former NatWest boss Alison Rose seen attending the annual CBI Conference in London in 2019. — Former NatWest boss Alison Rose seen attending the annual CBI Conference in London in 2019. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters

Sometimes business leaders want more than money: they want to be remembered. The Observer business agenda’s annual awards column endeavours to make that happen. Each year we recognise the corporate world’s most bizarre and bothersome “achievements” so that they may live on as long as newsprint and/or web servers shall last. Here are 2023’s lucky winners.

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