Private equity boom seen for Islamic finance (The Malaysian Insider)

Posted by admin on Feb 17 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

DUBAI, Feb 18 — Private equity will be a key growth engine for the Islamic finance industry, but fund managers need to better understand sharia concepts before a market can develop, a top banker told Reuters yesterday.

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Private equity boom seen for Islamic finance (The Malaysian Insider)

HIGHLIGHTS-German Finance Minister interview with Reuters (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)

Posted by admin on Feb 3 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

BERLIN, Feb 3 (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, in a wide-ranging interview with Reuters, urged the Group of 20 economic powers to take a nuanced approach to tackling economic imbalances.

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-01-27 10:58 HUNGARY FINANCE MINISTER SAYS PRICING OF $2 BLN BOND "VERY GOOD" (Interactive Investor)

Posted by admin on Jan 27 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

BUDAPEST, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Hungary’s $2 billion bond issue completed on Tuesday basically covers the total 1.5 billion euro foreign currency bond issuance the country planned for this year, Finance Minister Peter Oszko told Reuters on Wednesday. Oszko said Hungary does not plan any further international bond issues in the first quarter of 2010, and the most probable scenario is that domestic …

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-01-27 10:58 HUNGARY FINANCE MINISTER SAYS PRICING OF $2 BLN BOND "VERY GOOD" (Interactive Investor)

GM Daewoo Finance Chief Mark James Named Opel CFO (The Auto Channel)

Posted by admin on Jan 15 2010 in Finance, General | 0 comments

FRANKFURT January 15, 2010; Christiaan Hetzner writing for Reuters reported that General Motors’ German unit Opel appointed a new management team on Friday led by Nick Reilly as chief executive and a close ally, Mark James, as finance chief.

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GM Daewoo Finance Chief Mark James Named Opel CFO (The Auto Channel)

(AFX UK Focus) 2010-01-03 11:58 UPDATE 1-Irish finance minister to stay despite illness (Interactive Investor)

Posted by admin on Jan 3 2010 in Finance | 0 comments

DUBLIN, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Irish finance minister Brian Lenihan does not intend to leave his job and expects to make a full recovery from his illness, the Sunday Independent newspaper quoted him as saying. Recent media reports said Lenihan, who has won praise from investors for halting a steep budget deficit rise, has pancreatic cancer

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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-01-03 11:58 UPDATE 1-Irish finance minister to stay despite illness (Interactive Investor)

Brazil blocking increase of carbon finance -source (AlertNet)

Posted by admin on Dec 16 2009 in Finance | 0 comments

Source: Reuters By Michael Szabo COPENHAGEN, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Brazil is blocking proposals to increase carbon finance for emerging nations at U.N. talks, and a spat with Saudi Arabia over forestry and carbon- …

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Brazil blocking increase of carbon finance -source (AlertNet)

Posted by admin on Dec 16 2009 in Finance | 0 comments

Source: Reuters By Michael Szabo COPENHAGEN, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Brazil is blocking proposals to increase carbon finance for emerging nations at U.N. talks, and a spat with Saudi Arabia over forestry and carbon- …

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Kuwait Finance Minister Says No Dispute With Citi (New York Times)

Posted by admin on Dec 14 2009 in Finance | 0 comments

Kuwait’s sale of its stake in Citigroup this month was not due to a dispute with the U.S. bank, the Gulf Arab state’s finance minister said in published remarks on Sunday, Reuters reported.

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Soros says has way to unlock climate finance (The Star)

Posted by admin on Dec 10 2009 in Finance | 0 comments

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Billionaire financier George Soros told Reuters on Thursday he had found a way to unlock a stalemate on climate finance using International Monetary Fund assets.

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Soros says has way to unlock climate finance (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

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Billionaire financier George Soros told Reuters on Thursday he had found a way to unlock a stalemate on climate finance using International Monetary Fund assets.

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