Finance Monthly hears from the Financial Services team of Roland Berger in the Middle East, represented by Andreas Buelow, Bhavin Shah and Feroz Sanaulla. Between them, they cover the Middle East region across all financial services sectors – most notably banking, insurance and asset management. Their individual focus areas are based on their strong points: Andreas leverages his past experience at a global blue-chip insurer to cover our insurance clients, Bhavin focuses on banking and regulators based on his previous experience in consulting and Feroz builds the bridge between the financial services world and the tech world with his rich background as a corporate VC executive. Below, we speak with them about their passion to tackle the challenges arising from the digitalisation of financial institutions in the Middle East.
We speak with Sava Zurnic, MPM Master Project Manager at USA Escrow Fund – a global corporation specialising in project financing, escrow services and project management. For the past five years, Sava has been managing European projects as the company’s Project Director for Europe and has focused on projects in South-Eastern Europe.
2020 has started with a bang from the FCA’s perspective with two ‘Dear CEO…’ letters being issued within a matter of days of the New Year fireworks heralding in 2020. Whilst directed to different sectors of the financial services market and raising different core concerns, the letters share a common theme. The FCA states that SM&CR sets the standard of personal conduct and provides an opportunity and catalyst to transform culture for financial services. This provides a significant indicator of the way in which the FCA is viewing emerging marketplace risks and how it intends to approach them in 2020. With over £392 million in fines published in 2019, the FCA is clearly serious.
We caught up with Daniel Holmes, Senior Managing Director at Colliers International. Based in their Toronto office, Dan’s role is to implement strategies to support and mentor the firm’s internal resources and track the insights,
factual data, market trends and projections to maximise the potential of property. Below we talk to Dan about Toronto’s real estate market and the things that position Colliers at the forefront of the commercial real estate industry.
Banks have traditionally been reliant on legacy systems and are often reluctant to make changes to their IT infrastructure, but as society as a whole continues to adopt cloud and consumers demand the latest technologies, it’s time these organisations followed suit.
With the roll out of IR35 in the private sector on 6 April 2020 just under six weeks away, Nigel Morris, Employment Tax Director at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, urges business to see the new rules as an opportunity, not a hindrance.
Securing investment is a complex process. You’ll need professional advice in finding investors, as well as help in finalising arrangements with investors, but it will always be up to you to discern which investors you truly want to back your venture, and finding the right investor, as opposed to any investor, is crucial.
The Dow Jones fell to its worst point in the past two years, putting it at its third worst drop point in history, as coronavirus spreads and elicits panic among investors.
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