Business and Finance

This area provides up-to-date and interesting developments from the world of business, economics and finance.

A wealth of information is available on topics ranging from stock markets, consumer climate, labor market policies, bond markets, foreign trade and interest rate trends to stock exchange news and economic forecasts.

Clearstream introduces the first ‘Collateral Re-use Service’

This new functionality will be introduced mid October. It will remove a key limitation to the growth of the European market share of triparty repo in that it…

Fishing trade helps Africa

The report draws on research by Dr Arthur Neiland and Dr William Emerson of the UK government-funded Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (SFLP). It…

Service sector offers growth potential and new jobs

FinnSight 2015 is a joint foresight project of Tekes and the Academy of Finland. The core of the foresight project comprised ten expert panels, each of which…

Too much choice could have negative impact on UK saving habits – Moneyfacts data fuels key research

The research into the current UK retail deposit market shows that converted building societies have introduced and withdrawn deposit accounts with far greater…

HP and JA-YE unveil new award to encourage young entrepreneurs to engage in responsible business

HP Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise (JA-YE) Europe will launch a new award to encourage young entrepreneurs to…

Small businesses profit by hiring people who fit into firm's culture

That is the finding of a study by Christopher Collins, Cornell associate professor of human resource studies at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Collins found that small businesses that follow such strategies reap 22 percent more revenue growth, 23 percent more profit growth and have 67 percent less employee turnover than companies that do not have such hiring criteria….

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