Iskandar Najjar, Equiti Group CEO – Pulling Out All the Stops in Bid to Be the Best: Equiti Group at the Forefront of Fintech Sector

Under the leadership of the Equiti Group’s CEO, Mr Iskandar Najjar, Equiti has transformed into a fast-growing global industry challenger. In recent years, the company has expanded its global footprint to new regions and new continents, growing threefold in size

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Equiti: History of Firsts for Fintech Group with Inclusive Vision

Equiti is a pioneering fintech firm and world-class provider of online trading technology and multi-asset financial products. The company believes that trading on the global financial markets within a safe and regulated environment should be open to everyone. Equiti’s clients

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Ric Traynor: A Haven of Last Resort for Distressed Businesses

It is, perhaps, the ultimate countercyclical business: corporate recovery. The UK’s leading independent business rescue and restructuring specialist Begbies Traynor (LSE: BEG) usually fares rather well when others don’t. However, co-founder and executive chairman Ric Traynor’s (60) job is to

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Ferrexpo: Heightened ESG Focus Taking Mining Company to New Level

London-listed Ferrexpo PLC looking to bring its environmental credentials to the forefront of its corporate strategy. Ferrexpo has been premium listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2007 and has been a member of the FTSE 250 Index of Companies

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Liechtenstein Bankers Association (LBA): Modern Industry Association with the Ambition to Shape the Future

The Liechtenstein Bankers Association (LBA), established in 1969, is the domestic and international voice of banks operating in, and from, the tiny but influential principality. It is one of the microstate’s most important associations and plays a key role in

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BLKB: Regional Bank that Favours a Future-Orientated Approach

What impact do corporate actions have on individuals, society and the environment? Can we take responsibility for the world we live in, and if so, how? Swiss bank BLKB has some answers. Swiss bank BLKB has been taking responsibility for

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Whither Interest Rates in Advanced Economies: Low for Long?

by Otaviano Canuto We have previously discussed how, between March 2020, when the financial shock caused by COVID-19 occurred, and the end of August, the stock and corporate debt markets in the United States performed extraordinarily, despite gloomy prospects on

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Atif Mian: Theory, Practice, and Macro-economic Reality in a World Longing for Rebound

“Economic disasters are almost always preceded by a large increase in household debt.” The above proclamation comes from a critically acclaimed 2014 book, House of Debt, written by research colleagues Atif Mian, from Princeton University, and Amir Sufi, from the

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The Summer Before Dark 2.0

Paris is under a curfew and Madrid under a state of emergency. In the Benelux, bars and cafés have been closed whilst elsewhere in Europe governments are almost uniformly moving towards a quasi-lockdown. The second wave was perhaps slow to

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Brexit Nears, Hedge Funds Flip Sides, and IMF Urges Spending

The yield on the benchmark 10-year German bund this week dipped to minus 0,63 percent as investors scrambled for safety and stocks took a beating. Tech stocks stumbled as well after the Financial Times revealed that the European Commission is

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