This simple graph from the Wall Street Journal is just a measure of the constraints that have been imposed to Greece since the beginning of their adjustment. The US depression is just small potatoes compared to Greece. How many years will be needed for the Greek people to come back… Read More »
TMK, l’un des leaders mondiaux de l’assurance d’entreprise et de l’assurance spécialisée a annoncé aujourd’hui le lancement d’une solution d’assurance spécialisée dans les droits de Propriété Intellectuelle (PI), en France, Belgique et au Luxembourg. À travers ses entités de Londres et de Francfort, TMK offre déjà des solutions d’assurance de… Read More »
While we still see the environment as more challenging, the earnings season is alleviating some of the recent concerns. We had expected earnings to become a more dominant theme, and they are delivering the anticipated support to risk appetite. In addition to the positive earnings effect, equity purchase programs being… Read More »
DasCoin, the Currency of Trust and the store of value within DasEcosystem, has completed a well structured two-year journey of preparation and strategic activity to develop its business platform. The company is delighted to announce it is now ready to launch onto public exchanges in conjunction with a landmark launch… Read More »
State Street Global Exchange today released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index® (ICI) for April 2018. The Global Investor Confidence Index increased to 114.5, up 3.0 points from March’s revised reading of 111.5. Investors across all regions expressed an appetite for risk, with the North American ICI… Read More »
Consumer finance is a standout performer in the European financial services sector. Average annual shareholder returns for listed institutions between 2012 and 2017 were about 11.5 percent, compared with retail banking’s 9.1 percent and corporate banking’s 7.4 percent. Privately held (often private equity backed) consumer finance firms performed even better,… Read More »
People are drawing parallels with the Crimean annexation and sanctions put in place then – which heavily impacted the Russian market. But the macroeconomic Russian situation is very different today – it is much better: Oil: (Russia’s biggest export) the price was collapsing back then. Today it is and has… Read More »
The tail risk is an escalation in tit-for-tat tariffs between the US and China, that leads to a full-blown trade war. If Trump is applying his ‘Art of the deal’ to trade, then we are likely to see a negotiated settlement. While neither wants to lose face, the objective here… Read More »
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today announced it has been appointed by HSBC Alternative Investments Limited (HAIL) in Luxembourg to provide a broad range of custody and administration services for its new diversified loan fund. The appointment represents a new relationship and one where State Street will be the sole… Read More »
Global Games S.p.A. (“Global Games”), azionista di controllo di Snaitech S.p.A. (“Snaitech”) con una partecipazione pari al 55,533% del relativo capitale sociale e OI-Games S.A. (“OI-Games”); congiuntamente con Global Games, i “Venditori”), azionista di Snaitech con una partecipazione pari al 15,028% del relativo capitale sociale, rendono noto di avere sottoscritto… Read More »