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...It is 25, 30 per cent of [gross domestic product] and it’s not going to disappear,” said Koenigsberger....
...Iervolino owns 96.5 per cent of the shares via a holding company, IA Media, meaning his personal wealth is hypothetically on par with Miuccia Prada, Piero Ferrari and Silvio Berlusconi....
...The app store forces developers to treat their software in a sub-par way to give customers a sub-par experience to charge uncompetitive handling and processing fees to inflate the price of digital goods....
...On to the third:Energy product company C recently went public....
...Access Investing is charging 0.35 per cent of assets under management to clients with at least $5,000 to invest, on a broad par with other robo-offerings....
...Two Sigma has vaulted over the $50bn assets under management mark to put it on a par with Renaissance Technologies as the biggest global quantitative hedge fund, as investors continue to pile into computer-powered...
...Megan Clarken, president of product leadership at Nielsen, said the company is currently “deep in discussions” with the TV industry about agreeing a new ratings standard....
...It is a world away from KPMG’s sterile corporate headquarters in banker central, Canary Wharf. His small team of young employees works with tech start-ups....
...Akoya, which is one of Damac’s largest villa community projects under construction in the Dubai desert, is based around a Trump golf club, which includes a par-71 course and a spa....
...Its 49 per cent gross margin exceeds Apple’s at 41 per cent and puts it on a par with GoPro....
...The combined value of ICBC, CCB, Agricultural Bank of China and Bank of China is now on a par with the four big US banks....
...It aims to sell them extra products, such as insurance or mutual funds, to double the income they generate....
...Ross now hope for further returns beyond the US as China resumes imports of iron ore and increases its imports of sweet crude oil from Africa, benefiting OSG’s transport of international crude and oil products...
...Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman have teamed up to buy Pharmaceutical Product Development for $3.9bn in cash, amid rising private equity group interest in healthcare....
...Stock shortages of 7 per cent for food products and 18 per cent for non-food, the area that remains the main drag on performance, speak of below-par service levels....
...Liffe is not a small piece of the puzzle, it puts them on a par versus CME and Eurex.”...
...This highlights how derivatives, a higher-margin product than cash equities, are the driving force behind this deal, along with clearing, which is a strategically vital asset for many exchanges....
...The debt market for buy-outs is frothier than it has been since the global financial crisis wiped out collateralised loan obligations and other toxic fixed income products in 2008....
...I was a little more concerned that the bonds were trading over par, at 116, which would produce a capital loss on an early redemption....
...I understand deposits, so I want all the CDs, all the checking accounts, all the bank branches, and I’ll pay par plus something for those....
...“The industry has been very creative – imagine if it applied the same creativity to understanding clients as it does to coming up with products,” she says....
...Firstly, the first loss tranche on this LLC – the equity portion that AIG will hold – is only $5bn. A lot? Not. The CDOs proposed to be purchased have a par value of $70bn....
...: Well I think it just puts more pressure on our financial institutions that are in a process of trying to get themselves healthy by liquefying distressed assets or assets that are trading at less than par...
...By contrast, beer sales in Western Europe were only on par with last year at 13.3 hectolitres....
...Flextronics Software, which was recently de-listed from Indian markets, employs 6,100 staff, mostly in India, and has been growing on par with the industry at 25-30 per cent....
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