Hints and tips:
...The UK’s status as a top financial hub is at risk Tracy Blackwell, CEO of the Pension Insurance Corporation, and Andy Griffiths, executive director of The Investor Forum, aren’t optimistic that reforms...
...Meanwhile, a veteran of the 1980s bank crisis in the US has criticised the decision by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to sell First Republic to JPMorgan....
...Corporation tax is a tax on investment not on shareholders, corporation tax revenue should be reduced to zero....
...Companies This is a week for insurance earnings reports....
...Companies like Kobo360 and its main competitor, Kenya’s Lori, are trying to revolutionise the logistics systems that will be key to the success of the recently signed Africa Continental Free Trade Area agreement...
...German companies such as HeidelbergCement and Continental are increasingly besieged by harsh questions from Polisario-aligned activist groups....
...The UK, like much of Western Europe, needs to reposition itself post the pandemic, in a changing and growing global economy....
...European bank consolidation on the cards A trio of stories from continental Europe suggest that bank consolidation may well be picking up....
...Criticism of ECB policies is wide-ranging: they make it unnecessary for recalcitrant members to reform; they have failed to reduce indebtedness; they undermine the solvency of insurance companies, pension...
...A lack of diverse viewpoints is a key flaw of the corporation....
...The trend is underlined by US and continental groups planning to combine and headquarter in the UK. Corporation tax is falling to 18 per cent here but is over 30 per cent in the US and Germany....
...These changes would provide new options for insurance companies investing assets under management....
...I can confirm today we’re going to reduce the rate of Corporation Tax even further. That’s the rate Britain’s profitmaking companies — large and small — have to pay....
...HINT: Large depositors and some bondholders got bailed out by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Continental Illinois 24....
...I’ve already announced a reduction in our corporation tax rate to 18%....
...Second, the government will invest in new seismic surveys in under-explored areas of the UK Continental Shelf....
...TPG and Paris-based Axa Private Equity took control of continental Europe’s biggest owner of broadcast and telecoms masts and transmitters in 2006, in a deal worth €5bn including debt....
...Six months later the bank failed and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the regulator, sold WaMu to JPMorgan....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...When the Money Runs Out : The End of Western Affluence, by Stephen King, Yale, RRP£20, 304 pages For many, the financial crisis is a temporary interruption in the rise of western prosperity that is due...
...Patient investors, which have traditionally included pension funds and insurance companies alongside families, are increasingly making way for very short-term holders of company shares....
...Mary Patricia Azevedo, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation official overseeing the process for complex financial institutions, said that kind of introspection was just what regulators were looking...
...In the US, final rules on living wills for large US banks are due out next month jointly from the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...This is the country’s most popular tourist attraction and is South African owned once again; Growthpoint, South Africa’s largest property company, and the PIC each bought a 50 per cent share in the V&A for...
...Ms Baldry, who succeeds Sir David Cooksey, will dip into her regeneration and development experience as the former chairman of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation....
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