Author: Aaron
-
Overseas users now can use WeChat Pay in Mainland China
GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — WeChat Pay is now collaborating with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover Global Network (including Diners Club) and JCB to enable overseas users to link their credit cards to WeChat Pay and use it for payment transactions and services in China. With this collaboration, overseas users will now be able to use…
-
LatinFinance announces winners of 2019 Banks of the Year Awards
MIAMI, Nov. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — LatinFinance announces the winners of the 2019 Banks of the Year Awards, its annual recognition of excellence in financial services in Latin America and the Caribbean. The awards will be given out Friday evening during LatinFinance’s Latin America Banking Leadership Dinner at Mandarin Oriental, Miami. This year’s winning institutions achieved outstanding performance in retail, commercial…
-
Global M&A pushes past US$3 trillion to fourth highest YTD total on record
Lucille Jones, Deals Intelligence Analyst at Refinitiv, comments: “Worldwide announced Global M&A totals US$3.03 trillion so far during 2019. Despite a 12% decline from this time last year, the value of M&A registered so far this year is the fourth highest year-to-date total since our records began in the 1970s.” Deals with a combined value…
-
Tax and Immigration Expert David Lesperance Helps Wealthy Tech Founders & Their Families Secure Financially Stable Futures
LYNN, MA / ACCESSWIRE / October 31, 2019 / For centuries, California, along with the rest of the U.S. Pacific Coast, was known as the Wild West, an almost-mythical territory unknown to most East Coast inhabitants, including the throngs of European immigrants who had relatively recently made America home. Just as the promise of a new,…
-
UK Election 2019: Expect the pound and UK financial assets to be increasingly volatile
The pound and UK financial assets will be volatile in the run-up to Britain’s first December general election since 1923 – and will remain so in the event of another hung parliament. This is the warning from Nigel Green, CEO and founder of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations, as…
-
Global IPOs fall to three-year low during first nine months of 2019
LONDON, 18 October 2019: The first nine months of 2019 were the slowest opening period for Global IPOs since 2016 according to analysis by Refinitiv. Global initial public offerings, which totalled US$105.7 billion, also represented a 27% decrease compared to last year. IPOs on US exchanges fell 61% during the third quarter of 2019, pulling…
-
NetDiligence Publishes Ninth Annual Cyber Claim Study
Releases Data-Driven Analysis of Cyber Claim Payouts PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — NetDiligence®, a leading provider of cyber risk readiness and response services, announced today it has published its ninth annual Cyber Claims Study, a study of actual losses for data breaches and other cyber-related events covered by leading cyber insurance carriers. Sponsoring the study are RSM and Cozen O’Connor.…
-
New Investing Podcast Seeks to Challenge the Prevailing Narrative in Financial Markets
NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — A new podcast, the Contrarian Investor, is making the rounds on Wall Street. Launched in April by a veteran financial journalist, the podcast’s mission statement is to “give voice to those who challenge a conventional narrative in global financial markets.” Each week the host, Nathaniel E. Baker, interviews a prominent personality…