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Power deal levels to grow

11th February 2015

Global M&A value in the power and renewables sector has reached the highest level seen in the current decade – up 70% year-on-year - and any further upward movement would begin to move sector deal value back towards the heady levels last seen before the credit crunch, according to PwC and Strategy’s latest annual Power […]

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UK IPO market set for a strong 2015

10th February 2015

Investors expect a buoyant UK IPO market in the next 12 months despite the uncertainty caused by the approaching election, last year's IPO woes and a fall in oil prices, according to the first Investor Sentiment Index from BDO's Capital Markets team. The global research, which questioned institutional investors investing in UK equities with a […]

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Salary increase for finance jobs

10th February 2015

New layers of regulation are forcing banks and other top financial institutions to raise salaries for specialist professionals in the UK, a new survey reveals, despite pressure to cut costs. According to the Robert Walters Salary Survey, professionals across regulatory reporting, product control and internal audit sectors have been securing double digit pay rises in […]

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Chinese deal making in Europe surges

9th February 2015

Chinese investors are doing a far higher value and volume of M&A deals in Europe than European investors in China, according to data from Deloitte. In 2014 Chinese companies and financial investors announced 79 deals in Europe, compared to 54 European deals in China. In terms of value, in 2014 the average disclosed deal size […]

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Income doubles at Deutsche Bank in 2014

9th February 2015

Germany’s Deutsche Bank posted strong income and profit figures for 2014 with income before income taxes (IBIT) more than doubling to €3.1 billion for the year ended December 31, 2014. Core bank IBIT was €6 billion, up €1.1 billion from FY2013, while net revenues remained stable at €32 billion. Jürgen Fitschen and Anshu Jain, Co-Chief […]

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Growth predicted for European alternative lending markets

9th February 2015

The alternative lending markets in Europe reported strong growth in 2014, according to Standard & Poor's ‘Alternative Lending Markets In Europe Are Increasingly Open To Mid-Market Companies’ report, published in January 2015. "Given these positive market developments, expectations among regulators and politicians are high that alternative lending markets will support additional growth in Europe," said […]

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Editor's letter - February 2015

6th February 2015

2015 got off to a busy start, as more than 2,500 representatives of business, government, academia and civil society participated in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2015 in Davos, Switzerland. Finance Monthly kept the world informed via its dedicated WEF 2015 website. In this month’s issue, we present a review of the event, highlighting […]

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BT agrees to buy EE for £12.5 billion

6th February 2015

BT has agreed definitive terms to acquire EE for £12.5 billion (€16.7 billion). The transaction will be paid as a combination of cash and new BT ordinary shares issued to both Deutsche Telekom and Orange. EE is the leading mobile network operator in the UK with 31 million customers of which 24.5 million are direct […]

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Bank of England holds interest rates at 0.5%

5th February 2015

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to keep the base interest rate and the stock of assets purchased under the quantitative easing programme unchanged in February at 0.5% and £375 billion respectively. The headline rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), fell to just 0.5% in December and, […]

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