Global Banking & Finance

OCTOBER 25, 2024

By Elena Fabrichnaya and Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s central bank hiked its key interest rate by 200 basis points on Friday to 21%, the highest level since the early years of President Vladimir Putin’s rule, when Russia was recovering from the chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Street of Walls

DECEMBER 18, 2012

For those with an aversion to America’s favorite pastime, Moneyball is a 2003 book by Michael Lewis (adapted into a 2011 movie), which tells the story of the Oakland Athletics’ 2002 season. The hardest part for HR groups in finance right now is successfully determining which candidates have those factors that matter.

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Growth Business

MAY 19, 2023

Number of successful exits: 7 Website: www.angelsden.com Contact: info@angelsden.com Angels Invest Wales Bio: Angels Invest Wales, part of the Development Bank of Wales, is the biggest angel network in Wales, connecting experienced investors with Welsh businesses seeking private investment.

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Growth Business

MAY 31, 2023

Part of the Development Bank of Wales, Angels Invest Wales is for established businesses seeking equity funding of between £50,000 and £10m with seed finance for pre-revenue tech start-ups. There are over 250 members, an £8m co-investment fund and an online investment platform.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Werner Eppacher has spent the entirety of his two-decade financial career with German asset manager DWS Group, catching his first glimpse of a trading floor as an intern for Deutsche Bank in 2003. “A It [DWS Group’s asset class split] depends on the market environment,” he says. You had the gilt crisis.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I was part of the generation where computers were a big part of growing up so I thought I would join that industry, but then the tech bubble burst in college and I couldn’t find an internship in that field,” he explains. “[After finding an internship in finance] I thought ‘these are really big dollar amounts that people are moving around.

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Bronte Capital

JUNE 30, 2022

Dan McCrum - the Financial Times journalist - has released a blockbuster finance book - the story of Wirecard. High Risk Payments High risk payments are payments that normal banks do not want to process. I did not save a single Wirecard Annual Report after 2014 - though I had them all from 2003 onwards. It is really good fun.

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