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Nick England, CEO of VFX Financial Plc

5th February 2016
VFX Financial PLC (VFX) is a UK based provider delivering Foreign Exchange and regulated payment and remittance services to a wide range of customers. The mix of clients is broadly split into Corporate and HNW and Private Clients. Corporate clients include Fiduciary firms (e.g. Offshore Trustees) as well as a broad range of SME’s.Here Nick […]
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Business Insight: Mark Evans, CFO of O2

5th February 2016
In the second edition of our special CFO insight interviews in 2016, Finance Monthly spoke to Mark Evans, Chief Financial Officer of Telefonica UK. Telefonica UK owns the O2 brand, as well as giffgaff and a share of the Tesco Mobile joint venture. He talks to us about his role, O2’s customer retention, and predictions […]
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Alphabet overtaking Apple as the most valuable public company in the world

5th February 2016
Alphabet, the holding company for Google, has passed Apple as the most valuable company in the world for the first time since February 2010. With an increase of approximately 8% after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings, Alphabet‘s value is now approximately $568 billion, compared to Apple’s worth of $535 billion. Alphabet, a software company […]
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ECB’s Draghi: Refugee Crisis Is Challenge and Opportunity that Will Change Europe

4th February 2016
Spending by governments in response to the influx of refugees to Europe could prove to be a stimulus for the economy, European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi told participants at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016. “One driver of the economy, which still hasn’t deployed its effect, is the probable increasing government expenditure […]
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Cash savers lose £160 billion after 7 years of low interest rates

3rd February 2016
Base rate will have been held at 0.5% for seven whole years, if the Bank of England decides to keep interest rates on hold for February at its next policy meeting tomorrow. Since the financial crisis, cash savers have seen returns on their deposits all but vanish. We estimate they have lost £160 billion in […]
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$100 Trillion by 2025: the Digital Dividend for Society and Business

3rd February 2016
The “combined value” to society and industry of the digitization that is already occurring in every industry could generate upwards of $100 trillion over the next 10 years, with society set to gain more than business. However, this transformation also brings with it risk, according to new research by the World Economic Forum. With digitization […]
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Barclays and Credit Suisse fined a total of $154 million for dark pool trading operations

2nd February 2016
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that Barclays Capital Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC will pay a combined $154.3 million to the State of New York and the SEC to settle investigations into false statements and omissions made in connection with the marketing of their respective dark pools and other high-speed electronic […]
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Mexico Bent on Structural Reforms Despite Oil Price Fall

2nd February 2016
“Low oil prices will not prevent, will not limit, will not stop energy reform,” Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto told participants at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. The oil and gas sector, previously dominated by state-owned Pemex, will continue to be opened to domestic and foreign investors. In December 2015, 51 companies […]
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Keeping the Web ‘Worldwide’: Report Highlights Risk of Internet Fragmentation

1st February 2016
Concern has been growing over the past two years that the global public Internet is in danger of splintering into a series of bordered cyberspace segments. Troubling trends have emerged that could endanger the openness and consistency of the Internet’s underlying infrastructure and erect barriers to some of the content and transactions it conveys. Unfortunately, […]
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Bank of Japan introduces a negative interest rate of -0.1%

29th January 2016
Shares in Japan jumped today following a surprising decision from the Bank of Japan to introduce a negative interest-rate policy. The aim is to encourage bank lending and drive up inflation. The Nikkei Stock Average finished up 2.8% at 17518.3 as a result, after an oscillating session as investors tried to interpret the news. The […]
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Lifting of Sanctions Offers Iran Potential for Growth Surge and Increased Investment

29th January 2016
Analysts taking part in the World Economic Forum estimate that with the lifting of sanctions on Iran under the nuclear deal agreed last year, the Iranian economy could grow by above 5% in 2016 and has the potential to average 8% over the next five years. Mohammad Agha Nahavandian, Chief of Staff of the Presidency […]
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