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FMO: Unlocking Scale Potential of Green Bonds in India – Lessons from Global Markets
The global green bonds market has gone from strength to strength in recent years, with issuance for 2017 already exceeding $100bn, some $20bn more than the total issuance in 2016 and the first time this benchmark has been breached. According
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María Dolores de Cospedal: Seeking More Bang
Almost nobody saw her coming. In barely ten years, María Dolores de Cospedal went from a political nobody to become Spain’s minister of Defence – the second woman to claim that job – and partake in the secretive Bilderberg Conference,
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Book Review: Private Island – Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
A Balance Disturbed for All the Wrong Reasons It remains somewhat of a mystery how Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne manages the UK government’s financial affairs. Presiding over a buoyant economy, planning the biggest privatisation exercise ever, and mandating
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A Sojourn in Davos: Things Will Never Be the Same
Book Review – The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann For all its potential as a canvas for the display of human suffering, sick-lit never quite made it as a genre. In her 1926 essay On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf expressed
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Davos: Till We Meet Again – Bankers Packing Up
Dutch Finance Minister and President of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem is worried that the increased insularity of thought displayed by Prime Minister Theresa May will prove near-fatal for the United Kingdom: “We’ll probably meet again twenty years from now. By
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Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB): A Mostly Unseen Hand
In late-December, President Werner Hoyer of the European Investment Bank shared his experiences and insights with CFI.co. He leads an institution more than twice as large as the World Bank, yet remains virtually unknown outside financial circles. Werner Hoyer (66)
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New Business-Registration Portal Goes Global
A new web portal has been launched to help companies directly access, and assess the user-friendliness of, business registration websites around the world. Global Enterprise Registration or www.ger.co is the brainchild of Ann Low, Deputy Director of the Office of
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MiFID II: The Impact on Finance Sector Comms
MiFID II is a change to the regulations informing the finance sector’s conduct and aims to improve transparency and safety in the financial markets. That means that, by January 2018, affected finance businesses must be fully compliant, or face fines
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Lord Waverley on Sanctions: The United Kingdom Acts
The United Kingdom Government has introduced the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill to Parliament. Provisions for continuity of current sanctions arrangements post BREXIT have become necessary. Failure to do so would put the United Kingdom in breach of its international
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British Airways: Bring On the Competition
How to manage an apparent paradox – and make a profit while doing so. It is a challenge well suited to British Airways CEO Alex Cruz, the eminently likable Spaniard who transformed Vueling from a struggling low-cost carrier into a
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