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...Minneapolis-based Castlelake is a specialist lender with a focus on aircraft leasing, providing financing for large airlines including United Airlines and Turkish Airlines that is secured against their planes...
...Amazon Web Services and Microsoft intended to expand in London before the pandemic but have put the plans on hold, according to one office leasing agent in the capital....
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...As firms face fee compression and cost pressures, pulling the plug more quickly on unsuccessful products has become critical....
...The most recent of those acquisitions was its purchase in early 2023 of California-based start-up WaveOne, which offers AI-powered video compression....
...However, within the ETF world, at least, fee compression appears to have slowed in 2023, according to data from FactSet....
...But he said the island’s permanent residents — buoyed by their increased incomes from short-term leasing — are now indifferent to public officials....
...“[We] believe much of the valuation compression in our focus areas is behind us,” it said. “We have increased positions in ‘wish list’ companies that have reached our target prices.”...
...“New leases by software, hardware and social media companies have led the technology industry’s office leasing rebound,” said real estate group CBRE, noting the amount of total office space leased by tech...
...“Importers don’t trust supply chains anymore,” explained Zvi Schreiber, chief executive of logistics booking service Freightos. “Retailers are not taking any risk....
...AIG has been undergoing bouts of restructuring since its $185bn taxpayer rescue during the 2008 financial crisis, selling off assets in areas such as aircraft leasing and consumer finance....
...“We will continue to see fee compression,” Mahmood predicts. One of the big questions for ETF providers going forward is whether ESG funds will become core holdings for investors, Ullal says....
...“Worldwide, fee compression is the norm, marking a revolution by evolutionary means,” said Amin Rajan, chief executive of Create Research, a consultancy....
...Economies of scale and breadth of services matter in financial services. The resulting compression in fees is hard to argue with even if it favours Wall Street incumbents....
...Tom Braithwaite comments that Amazon is being punished for its transparency in revealing profit margins for its cloud services that would bring them under the new regime....
...Although the economics are less favourable than its premium service, accumulating users justified the lower tier service. Turning those ears into profits could come later. “Why link free and paid?”...
...Deliveroo has gone a step further, leasing and fitting out so-called “dark kitchens” to increase supply and variety....
...Marketplace lenders sell the majority of loans they originate to third-party investors but, as the UK’s Finance and Leasing Association warned earlier this month, many capital markets are now “essentially...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on August 25, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...In recent years, the company has sought to raise additional funding by spinning out some key divisions, including its self-driving business and car-leasing unit Xiaoju Automobile Solutions, which won a $600m...
...The deal, estimated to be worth $500m in cash and services, is the accommodation-booking platform’s first major global sponsorship....
...Swiggy has opened over 1,000 cloud kitchens of its own, leasing out ready-made cooking areas to restaurants that only deliver online....
...The AMCs branched out into banking, leasing, securities, futures, trust services, insurance and shadow banking to boost their incomes, but this has caused trouble....
...The problems mounted when non-bank lender Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services imploded in late 2018, sending the cost of credit higher across the country....
...Key objectives The adoption of BlackRock’s technology services, including Aladdin, will be boosted by the recent acquisition of eFront, an analytics provider for alternative investments....
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