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...“By following [ecommerce capabilities] with financial services we help the local economy and also we keep more of the economy moving on our platforms,” he said “That’s why we’ve seen companies like Amazon...
...Black employees held a lower share of top US financial services jobs in 2018 than they did more than a decade earlier, according to research by the Financial Times, underlining the shortcomings of Wall Street...
...And since “the exposure of UK investors, including insurance companies [and banks], to these shifts is potentially huge”, he warned of a potential future market panic if investors suddenly woke up to these...
...West Pharmaceutical Services Sector: pharmaceuticals / HQ: Exton, PA, US The almost 100-year-old medical supplies company is a specialist in the equipment that so many Covid-19 drug and vaccine makers...
...Carbon pricing and carbon markets are included in most national strategies as a way to compel companies to act....
...Mid-level jobs in manufacturing and multinational companies are disappearing and being replaced by technology and financial services roles, which are easier to fill with younger, more affordable migrants...
...Citigroup said this month it hoped to launch a “national digital bank” within the next couple of years, while PNC chief Bill Demchak told analysts in December that the Pittsburgh-based bank was planning...
...We’ll end the practice of purchasing services through overseas branches to avoid UK VAT and we’ll crack down on insurance companies routing services through offshore territories....
...Bank of Canada’s official numbers show that non-banks — trusts, credit unions and other financial institutions — held C$313bn of residential mortgage credit in December....
...The police and fire services, prisons and local authorities are not going to see an end to austerity....
...And we’ll tighten rules around the use of termination payments. Termination payments over £30,000 are already subject to income tax. From 2018, they will also attract employer national insurance....
...(Financial Times) Japan’s services sector finally expanded in July, following three months of declines in the wake of a national sales tax being lifted from 5 to 8 per cent on April 1....
...If Sharon or Bilal is denied a job or insurance, they may never know which piece of data caused the denial....
...Economics After the Crisis: Objectives and Means, by Adair Turner, MIT Press, RRP£17.95 The chairman of the Financial Services Authority is the UK’s foremost public policy intellectual-cum-practitioner...
...Those of us who’ve been sent here to serve can learn from the service of our troops....
...He is equally careful about his boutique advisory service, which is registered as Firerush Ventures No. 3 with the Financial Services Authority....
...Weekend headlines from the FT and other UK media:* From The FT, - UK company liquidations rise 3.7% - RBS Insurance pledges big profit increases - Horta-Osório may be most ruthless bank...
...UK hedge funds have reported portfolio information to the Financial Services Authority for years....
...Science Advisor for Earthquakes and Geologic Hazards, US Geological Survey -Eric Geist, Geophysicist, US Geological Survey -Laura Furgione, Deputy Assistant Administrator, NOAA National Weather Service...
...But with the immediate economic crisis easing amid a return of confidence in the financial system, cracks are beginning to emerge – and the financial services industry is fighting back....
...That is how far-from-equilibrium situations can spin out of control. This is not confined to financial markets. I experienced it, for instance, during the collapse of the Soviet Union....
...The UK will clearly suffer major job losses in the City and financial services more generally. The share of national employment in these sectors may not recover to 2007 levels for a decade....
...It is an issue that will feature prominently over the next two days, when European Union finance ministers gather for informal discussions in Nice while regulators and financial service industry heavyweights...
...In recent weeks, the Financial Services Authority in the UK stated that it would not tolerate market abuses after rumours of liquidity problems at HBOS’s hit the British bank’s stock price....
...But it was insurance he chose and it was in insurance that he made his fortune. After a spell with an insurance company owned by C.H....
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