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Nataly Marchbank: BEPS and Transfer Pricing in South Africa
Recently there has been a steep increase in interest in the taxability of Multinational Companies (MNCs). What effective tax rates are being paid? Are MNCs paying their fair share of taxes in their home countries? Moreover, the very contentious question
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Mark Carney: An Admirable Mind-Set at the Bank of England
Early February, Canadian banker Mark Carney spoke before the House of Commons Treasury Committee about his new job. The hearing was but a formality. Mr Carney’s appointment as the new Governor of the Bank of England had already been announced
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CFI.co Meets Juan Pablo Córdoba Garcés
Mr Córdoba Garcés assumed his current position as CEO of the Colombian Securities Exchange in March 2005. Since then his main challenge within the organization has been the transformation of the exchange into a modern business. For this the exchange
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CFI.co Meets Chitra Ramkrishna
Ms Chitra Ramkrishna is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Stock Exchange, the world’s second largest `exchange in cash market trades and one of the top three exchanges in index and stock derivatives. Over the years,
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CFI.co Meets CSL Stockbrokers
Gboyega Balogun (Managing Director) Mr Balogun holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Management from the University of London (Royal Holloway College) and M.Sc. in Property Investment from City University, London. He is a registered member of the New York Stock
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The World Bank: Calling for an End to Poverty
With more than a billion people in the world living on less than $1.25 per day, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today said this week that extreme poverty was “the defining moral issue of our time,” and he
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What Really Spurred the Great Recession?
Based on the research of Ravi Jagannathan, Mudit Kapoor and Ernst Schaumburg Globalization and the U.S. dollar are as much to blame as banks Many people would no doubt like to forget all about the great recession. The blame has
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Islamic Banking: London’s City Finds New Calling
In a bid to attract a new category of investors and to become a leading centre of Islamic finance, the City of London has assembled a task force to spread the word on Sharia-compliant banking. “The aim of our task
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WTO Forecasts Gradual Recovery Despite Cut in Trade Forecasts
World trade growth in 2013 and 2014 is likely to be slower than previously forecast. WTO economists now predict 2013 growth of 2.5% (down from the 3.3% forecast in April) and 4.5% in 2014 (down from 5.0%), but they say
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Global Interconnections and Spillovers
Extracts from a Speech By Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund U.S. Chamber of Commerce, September 19, 2013 I. The Global Economy Today I recently returned from the G-20 Summit in St. Petersburg—where I know that the Chamber was
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