Lego overtakes Ferrari as the world’s most powerful brand
February 6th, 2017
Analysis of the world’s top brands shows Lego has replaced Ferrari as the most powerful, according to new research. Every year, brand valuation and strategy consultancy Brand Finance puts thousands of the world’s top brands to the test. They ...
Looking to find a job in UAE? These are the top sectors hiring in UAE today
February 6th, 2017
UAE professionals with healthcare qualifications and experience are more likely to find a job today than most of their peers, as the industry continued to show a high demand for new talent. Across the Middle East, there are job ...
KPMG: What the top considerations for Internal Audit in 2017
February 6th, 2017
Competing in a rapidly changing world, companies must grapple with emerging challenges seemingly every day: cyber threats, emerging and potentially disruptive technologies, business performance risk and more. In this increasingly complex environment, Internal Audit (“IA”) has a crucial role ...
CUSTOMER SUPPORT OFFICERS
February 3rd, 2017
New Customer Support Officers: ITALIAN, FRENCH, RUSSIAN, POLISH, HUNGARIAN, CZECH, DANISH, ARABIC, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, GERMAN SPEAKERS: Overview: Trade Finance is in our DNA. For more than 10 years, XTrade has helped global traders with access to the world’s largest ...
International law firm appoints team from PwC and establishes international tax disputes practice
February 3rd, 2017
Bird & Bird has today launched an international tax disputes practice based in the UK, with the appointment of a team from PricewaterhouseCoopers (‘PwC’). Andy Brown and Julian Balson join as partners, along with Ben Holloway as Legal Director, ...
Deutsche Bank reports core capital ratio of 11.9% despite 2016 full year net loss of EUR 1.4 billion
February 3rd, 2017
John Cryan, CEO, said: “Our results for the year 2016 were heavily impacted by decisive management action taken to improve and modernise the bank, as well as by market turbulence for Deutsche Bank. We proved our resilience in a ...
Is Trump’s immigration order legal?
February 2nd, 2017
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may have offered the most prescient reaction to President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending refugee resettlement and blocking individuals from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States. “It’s going to be decided in ...
NASDAQ reports fourth quarter 2016 with record revenues
February 1st, 2017
NASDAQ reports fourth Quarter 2016 with record revenues1; announces segment realighment and rebranding of fixed income Net revenues were a record $599 million in the fourth quarter of 2016, up 12% year-over-year. Subscription and recurring revenues2 in the fourth ...
Europol and Global Cyber Alliance team up to fight cybercrime
February 1st, 2017
Europol and the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA)signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on decreasing systemic cyber risk and improving internet security throughout Europe and beyond. The signing ceremony took place at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. As ...
Emirates NBD launches Green Auto loan with preferential pricing
January 31st, 2017
Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, announced today the launch of a Green Auto Loan product in line with its commitment to support the UAE’s transformation into a low-carbon economy, as part of UAE Vision 2021. The ...
