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CFI.co Meets ‘Jibola Odedina
CEO’s Profile The new management team appointed in October 2005, was led by Mr. ‘Jibola Odedina, who brought to bear over 22 years of cognate experience in principal investments, securities trading, portfolio management, and property development. ‘Jibola assembled a team
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CFI.co Meets Rashesh Shah
Rashesh Shah is Founder, Chairman & CEO of Edelweiss group – one of India’s most diversified financial services conglomerates. An MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, he has spent more than 25 years in financial markets and corporate
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ICC On Rethinking Trade and Finance
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) 2013 survey on trade and finance, released on June 24th, has found that a continued shortage of trade finance for international trade remains a major challenge for economic recovery and development, with many traders
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CFI.co Meets Naeem Mawji
Naeem grew up in Musoma, within the Mara region in North Eastern Tanzania. From an early age, he has been involved in the planning and execution of several self-help development projects initiated by farmers and their local government throughout the
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CFI.co Meets Chief Andrew Oziri Emeri
Chief Andrew Oziri Emeri, (or OZ as he is popularly known) was born on 27th June, 1960 to the families of Mr. & Mrs. Emeri O. Alexander aka (Alexander De Great) of Umunede Kingdom in Ika North East Local Government
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EU Budget Agreed
Following their meeting on Thursday 27th June at the Commission headquarters, President Barroso, President Schulz and Irish Taoiseach Kenny announced a political agreement on the European Union’s future budget 2014-2020. President Barroso underlined that this was possible because all sides
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CBI Says ‘Get Major Projects Moving to Protect the Recovery’
Ahead of the Wednesday June 26th spending round, the Confederation of British Industry reiterated its call for the Chancellor to take urgent steps to bridge the infrastructure investment gap and make the big decisions to protect growth and get a
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UN: Management of Natural Resources for a Peaceful Afghanistan
Sustainable and equitable management of Afghanistan’s natural resources such as land, water, forests and minerals can contribute to peacebuilding in the country, according to a United Nations report released on June 24th. The report, Natural Resource Management and Peacebuilding in
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Lagarde on the Prerequisites for a Strong Global Economy
Extracts from a Speech to the Washington Foreign Law Society by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (June 4th 2013). I should start with a brief update on the global recovery, which is uneven and in fact suffering from
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WTO’s Lamy: The Deeper European Crisis
Extracts from a speech by World Trade Organisation Director-General Pascal Lamy (The 2013 Brussels Economic Forum Third Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Lecture on 19 June 2013). The word “crisis” is not new in the European vocabulary. In fact, history has taught us
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