Commerzbank maintains defiant stance, urges stakeholders to ward off UniCredit
In a letter, CEO Bettina Orlopp told the shareholders that UniCredit's offer wasn't high enough and the Italian bank had not presented any 'sound plan'...
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With parliamentary nod, digital euro inches closer to reality
The digital euro, as an electronic wallet guaranteed by the ECB but marketed by banks, will allow eurozone residents to make payments both online and in person...
Bund yields near 15-year high as investors remain cautious
Talking about Bund yields, Germany’s 10-year government bond yield, the euro area’s benchmark, dropped 0.5 basis points to 3.01%...
Start-up of the Week: Feedzai lands major role in ECB’s digital currency
Feedzai is on a mission: to make the world a safer place for commerce, one transaction at a time...
Talks of ECB rate cut gather further strength as Eurozone inflation remains steady
Closely watched services inflation has eased to 3.7%, after remaining stagnant at 4% since the year's beginning...
Greece is putting debt crisis behind
2017 looks set to provide the necessary springboard for sustainable economic growth and renewed optimism...
Decoupling Eurozone and US interest rates using unconventional monetary policy
In continental Europe, interest rates tend to swing with their US and UK counterparts only up to 2013 Benoit Mojon Interest rates tend to move together. In Figure 1, we report interest rates on Treasury bonds of five-year maturity for the Eurozone member states that have the best ratings, and for the US, the UK,...
‘2017 will be a year of volatility, and that offer opportunities’
CAMRADATA Global Investment has collated the top 10 global investment trends with feedback from its asset management clients January 12, 2017: CAMRADATA, a leading provider of data and analysis for institutional investors, has collated the top 10 global investment trends for 2017 from a range of its asset management clients. Sean Thompson, Managing Director, CAMRADATA...
Doubts on Greek deal remain
The government doesn’t share the ideological underpinnings of the requested austerity measures Peter Vanden Houte August 14, 2015: It seems as if a deal on a third bail-out package (€86 bn over the next three years) between the Greek government and representatives from the IMF, the European Commission, the ECB and the ESM has been...
ECB’s quantitative easing: Blessing or curse?
TeleTrade believes that the decision will delay economic reforms by Eurozone members February 3, 2015: The European Central Bank (ECB) on January 22 said that it will expand its asset purchase programme to €60 billion a month starting from March 2015 until September 2016. In aggregate, the asset purchasing programme will be over €1.1 trillion....