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A Greek Drama Draws In the Obama Administration, Again
February 20th, 2015
President Barack Obama and his team may be suffering from Greek financial-crisis déjà vu. In 2010, and again in 2012, Mr. Obama and top officials in his administration worried that Greece’s debt woes could fracture the eurozone, knock down an ...
Eurogroup: EU “Trojan Horses” and cracks in the wall
February 20th, 2015
Friday’s Eurogroup is expected to be a tough day of negotiation and a last chance for a “mutually beneficial” situation Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis’ proposal for a six-month extension of its bailout facility was rejected by Germany that won’t ...
KPMG announces new Centers of Excellence
February 19th, 2015
Aidan Brennan, KPMG International’s Global Head of Management Consulting, has announced the launch of three new Centers of Excellence (CoEs) dedicated to the Customer, Enterprise Performance Management and Supply Chain. These new investments complement KPMG’s well-established centers focused on ...
Greek proposal lifts markets, despite German rejection
February 19th, 2015
A Greek proposal to extend its bailout and not to undermine agreed fiscal targets lifted European stocks to seven-year highs on Thursday and cut government borrowing costs across the euro zone, even though Germany rejected it. Despite the German rejection, Greece’s wording of ...
Deloitte comments on the EU Commission’s Capital Markets Union (CMU) green paper
February 19th, 2015
David Strachan, Head of Deloitte’s EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy, said: “The Commission has taken a pragmatic approach in developing a CMU. We support a period of analysis to identify the barriers to a CMU, rather than jumping in ...
J. Dijsselbloem: “Received Greek request for six months extension”
February 19th, 2015
The “bridge program” or “extension” may be approved by Friday if all goes well The Greek request for a six-month interim agreement, known as the “bridging program” by the Greek side or “extension” by the EU side, has been ...
ECB Set to Release Meeting Minutes for the First Time Ever
February 19th, 2015
The European Central Bank is about to lift the veil on how it pushed through unprecedented stimulus against the wishes of some of its members. In a revamp of its communications, the ECB will on Thursday publish a summary ...
Greece gets lifeline as ECB agrees €3.3bn extra emergency funds
February 19th, 2015
Total funding on offer now €68.3bn as Greek banks come close to using €65bn of liquidity funds granted by European Central Bank The embattled Greek government has been thrown a lifeline by the European Central Bank after the ECB agreed to ...
Greece to submit request for extension of loan agreement on Thursday
February 18th, 2015
Finance Minister Varoufakis discussed the negotiations with European Commissioner Moscovici on Tuesday Although government spokesman Gabried Sakellaridis initially stated that the Greek government was going to submit a request a six-month extension of the loan agreement on Wednesday, it was announced ...
KPMG SME foray doomed to fail
February 18th, 2015
KPMG is doomed to fail as the Big Four firm attempts to wrest business from High Street practitioners, according to Accountancy Age readers. That was the majority view when asked if the Big Four firm “can compete with the high street for ...
