In  a ‘the gloves are off’ move, the UK’s Competition and Market Authority has launched an investigation into the state of competition within the British banking industry, pledging to do whatever it takes to bring ...

Access Bank is a leading African bank, operating 366 branches and over 1000 ATMs in major centres across Nigeria and with subsidiaries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. For over 26 years the bank has ...

Elite Capital‘s  flexible solutions to international financing   Numerous new companies emerge in the global markets and operate in the fields of banking and finance. However their existence and continuity depend on their ability to ...

Mexican bank sets up new unit catering to ultra-high net worth individuals The world today is in constant, rapid transformation, and this brings major opportunities for those who are prepared and have the best support. ...

Chile is Latin America’s most competitive economy and is attracting ever increasing foreign investment Chile possesses the best economy in Latin America and one of the best among emerging economies worldwide. Its sustained economic growth ...

The banking industry has been fundamental to the Chilean economy and has played a key role in the country´s development, especially in recent decades since the economic and financial crisis of 1982.  The 1982 crisis ...

Israel has reduced its growth forecast to 2.4% for 2014, Bloomberg has reported, as the country’s inflation rate collapsed to zero in August. Israel’s economy has been hit hard by fighting in the Gaza strip, ...

With more investors looking past the BRIC countries for the next big emerging market opportunities, Africa is ready for an investment boom. There are several challenges when it comes to investing in Africa, including unemployment, ...

A 20-year surge in growth in Africa indicating that the world’s poorest continent is coming to terms with its challenges has raised the prospect of the African lion economies emulating the Asian tiger economies in ...

  ·           Listed companies in EMEA have almost €1tn in cash, up from €714bn in 2007 ·           59% of major businesses in this region will ...

Investors are being urged by a leading global analyst to review their portfolios more regularly and to include a small exposure into real assets, such as commodities and precious metals, as a precaution against rising ...

Cross-border acquisitions constitute the overwhelming majority of foreign direct investment flows. Such takeovers transfer ownership of valuable assets held by domestic firms – including technologies, trade secrets, capital, and distribution networks – to foreign enterprises. ...

LONDON August 2014 – Aon Hewitt, the global talent, retirement and health solutions business of Aon plc (NYSE:AON), has said that with defined benefit pension schemes climbing towards healthier funding status, they should be changing ...

The blend of highly motivated entrepreneurs and experienced venture capital fund managers with the right skills to commercialise innovation on a world-wide scale are now making European venture capital a convincing investment story. Europe has ...

Emerging markets” is an expansive one. It can encompass everything from behemoths China and Brazil to up-and-coming Mexico and the testing frontiers of Africa. The appeal for investors is stronger growth and younger economies than ...

OECD releases full version of global standard for automatic exchange of information. Taking an important step towards greater transparency and putting an end to banking secrecy in tax matters, the OECD today released the full version ...

Insurance, the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss from one entity to another in exchange for payment, has been around for centuries. Over 500 years ago, ship owners in London met in Lloyd’s ...