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Evan Harvey, Nasdaq: Stock Exchanges – An Engine for Sustainable Development
The modern stock exchange is a hybrid institution: listing venue, market steward, investment and regulatory liaison, product and service creator, and so on. To further complicate matters, many stock exchanges are now public companies themselves, listed on their own markets
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Lord Waverley: The Shackles That (Still) Bind International Trade
The ‘Problématique’ Notwithstanding the continued march of globalism, cross-border global trade remains plagued by multiple barriers. These impede economic development, particularly in emerging market (EM) economies, and for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). EMs account for over 85% of the
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EFG Asset Management: Not Constrained by Benchmarks
A boutique with backing: New Capital is the funds arm of EFG Asset Management (EFGAM), the investment division of global private banking group EFG International which has a total of CHF144.5bn in assets under management. Whilst New Capital enjoys the
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Tim Cook: Taking Care of Business
He wants to be remembered as a good and decent man. Not that he’s going anywhere, anytime soon: Apple CEO Tim Cook (56) is determined to take proper care of the legacy left by the company’s visionary founder Steve Jobs
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Kristalina Georgieva, CEO of the World Bank: Empowering Communities
Worldwide, around 500 million people live in “fragile situations,” mostly caused by armed conflict. Climate change threatens to add another hundred million or so people to that tally by 2030 – just thirteen years from now. And of the 800
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Lucy Worsley: Bringing the Past to Life
Books are the carriers of civilisation. Without them, history is silent, literature dumb, and science crippled. That certainty has changed, quite a bit, since US historian and author Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) celebrated books as vessels of – and portals to
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CFI.co Meets the Director General of National Savings, Pakistan: Zafar Masud
Zafar Masud, director general of Pakistan’s Central Directorate of National Savings, is a career banker and finance expert who served in top positions at major international banks in both Pakistan and abroad. Mr Masud has established a solid track record
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CFI.co Meets the CEO of UMG: Kiwi Aliwarga
That is what Kiwi Aliwarga was taking into consideration during the early stages of UMG – founded in 1998. He struggled with limited capital in a country still closed to investments. Kiwi Aliwarga and cofounder Marlar Win took the initiative
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CFI.co Meets the CEO of GVK Biosciences: Manni Kantipudi
Manni Kantipudi has been leading GVK Biosciences for the last 10 years, one of the largest India-based discovery, development & manufacturing solutions provider to the biopharma industry. With over a quarter century worth of experience in life sciences and the
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CFI.co Meets the Management Team: Fideicomiso Hipotecario
Fideicomiso Hipotecario – FHipo for short – is a mortgage REIT created for the sole purpose of acquiring, originating, co-participating, servicing, and managing mortgage loan portfolios in Mexico. FHipo was formed on late 2014 by Concentradora Hipotecaria (CH), advisor and
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