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Hogan Lovells Advises Optimal Payments Plc on €1.1 Billion Transformational Skrill Acquisition
March 24th, 2015
Hogan Lovells has advised Optimal Payments Plc on the €1.1 billion acquisition of Sentinel Topco Limited and its subsidiaries (Skrill Group) from Sentinel Group Holdings S.A, which is ultimately majority owned by funds managed and advised by CVC Capital ...
UK Offshore Tax Disclosures – Use The LDF while you can [Update]
March 24th, 2015
Tax authorities around the globe are increasingly working together to fight tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance to collect more tax. In the UK, HMRC is geared up to take full advantage: anyone who needs to put UK tax ...
Why Market’s Seasonality May Be Critical in 2015
March 23rd, 2015
With its FOMC statement, the Fed provided the market with what it wanted to hear. They removed the ‘patience’ phrase as expected, but replaced it with a similar assurance that there is no set timetable for rate hikes, that ...
Greek PM Tsipras faces Merkel amid race to detail reforms
March 23rd, 2015
As government officials scramble to draft a list of detailed reforms in line with demands by the country’s international creditors, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due in Berlin on Monday for crucial talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...
China’s Consumption Transition
March 20th, 2015
A standard pattern of long-term economic development is that a country goes through a period of higher savings and investment, along with correspondingly lower consumption levels. After the growth spurt, consumption levels rise again. For illustration, here’s a figure ...
OPEC to keep production steady as oil rally falters
March 19th, 2015
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has ‘no choice’ but to maintain its current production level of 30 million barrels per day, according to Kuwait’s oil minister Ali al-Omair. Both Brent and WTI rallied briefly on Fed comments ...
Predicting the Future With Russia’s Economic Nostradamus, Mikhail Dmitriyev
March 19th, 2015
Mikhail Dmitriyev, president of the New Economic Growth consultancy, is often described as “Russia’s top brain.” He studied in Leningrad in the ’80s and took part in economics discussion clubs with the people who transformed Russia into a market economy, including Anatoly Chubais, the architect of Russia’s privatization ...
Russia Deposit Fight Sees Foreign Banks Seeking New Clients
March 19th, 2015
Oksana Semenikhina, a customer of Citigroup Inc.’s Russian unit for the past decade, got an offer from the lender this year that she couldn’t pass up. “They offered to open a ruble term deposit for me at 9 percent ...
Riksbank cuts repo rate to −0.25 per cent and buys government bonds for SEK 30 billion
March 18th, 2015
There are signs that inflation has bottomed out and is beginning to rise, but the recent appreciation of the krona risks breaking this trend. The Executive Board of the Riksbank has decided to make monetary policy even more expansionary ...
Commerzbank publishes 2014 Annual Report
March 18th, 2015
In the 2014 financial year Commerzbank attained an operating profit of EUR 684 million. The net profit of the Bank increased in the year under review to EUR 264 million, following on from EUR 81 million in the previous ...
