Prepaid Financial Services (PFS), a leading e-money institution that specialises in prepaid cards and alternative banking services, has announced the launch of a programme for international relief organisation, Samaritan’s Purse, to provide financial aid to refugees and migrants across Greece. Samaritan’s Purse has been operating programmes in Greece for over a year, improving conditions in […]
Commenting on the Chancellor’s package of measures to support UK fintech, including a £500,000 a year investment for fintech specialists, Warren Mead, Global Co-lead Fintech, KPMG, comments: “The UK is a leading global force in fintech but we’re losing power to China rapidly and the announcements in the Autumn Statement will struggle to reverse the […]
Infrastructure, it seems, has never been more high profile. Chancellor Philip Hammond announced a spending spree on UK infrastructure in the Autumn Statement, whilst on the other side of the Atlantic, one of the focuses of Donald Trump’s election campaign was a $1 trillion infrastructure spending, with much of this also relying on private financing. The […]
In light of the UK’s Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement today, where he vowed to make the UK economy "resilient" in its exit from the EU, and noted an expected economy of higher borrowing and slower growth, Finance Monthly has heard from several sources who have given their opinions and comments on the Chancellor’s announcements. […]
Supported by Eurojust, as well as Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and the European Banking Federation (EBF) the second coordinated European Money Mule Action (EMMA) culminated in the arrest of 178 individuals. Law enforcement agencies and judicial authorities from Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, […]
A commentary from Rick Nicholls, Managing Director, Bastien Jack Group Ltd, UK property developer. In short, we have opportunity. Initial shock at the prospect of leaving the EU sent the markets into decline, but have they not reacted pretty much as anticipated? Never letting a crisis go without opportunity, selling high to force a low, […]
On 15 November, prosecutors from the Romanian Territorial Office Valcea of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), acting within a joint investigation team (JIT) set up with the support of Eurojust, carried out an operation concerning an organised crime group (OCG) specialised in computer fraud, forgery and money laundering. A total of […]
Future central bankers in the UK will have to deal with a compromised Bank of England following the government’s intervention in Mark Carney’s management of monetary policy, according to a leading critic of Bank of England policy. Anthony Evans, an economist at ESCP Europe business School in London, says that the government has overstepped its […]
Medical doctors with executive roles in medical device start-ups can hinder innovation, finds new research from UCL School of Management and Stanford University, but have a positive impact if they are inventors or board members. The study, accepted for publication in the Academy of Management Journal and funded by InHealth, looked at 231 US surgical […]
Capital flows to emerging markets should continue to improve gradually in 2017, according to the Institute of International Finance's (IIF) November Capital Flows Report. "After some turbulence earlier this year, we expect the current revival to continue into 2017," said Charles Collyns, managing director and chief economist at the IIF. "Markets have been generally buoyant since […]
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research's forecast of world output growth this year is unchanged at 3.0 per cent – the slowest annual growth rate since the 2009 recession. World growth is expected to strengthen to 3.2 per cent next year and 3.6 per cent in 2018, but to remain slower than before the […]
Germany’s small businesses are the most optimistic about their own economy according to the inaugural Global Business Monitor report from international business funder, Bibby Financial Services (BFS). Nearly three-quarters (73%) of German SMEs say their national economy is performing well in the global study that surveyed business owners in the US, Germany, UK, Poland, Hong […]
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