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.

Employees More Likely to Cheat with Bonus Incentive Programs

“The dark side of behaviour can be affected by pay-for-performance schemes,” said Fei Song, co-author of the study and a business professor at Ryerson’s Ted…

Brand attitudes: How companies can avoid the 'Tiger Woods' effect

“A widely applied method for improving how people feel about a brand is to pair the brand with positive stimuli,” write authors Steven Sweldens (INSEAD), Stijn…

Financially Wronged? New Study Says Investors Should Go After Leadership Instead of Corporation Itself

Class-action lawsuits against financial companies would often be better aligned with the financial interests of the wronged investor if they were directed at…

Banking on benefits

From a bank's perspective there are many advantages to persuading their customers to adopt internet banking – clicks, as opposed to bricks, and mortar banking,…

Impressive demand for KfW's new 5-year 5 billion Euro Benchmark bond More than one third sold to Central Banks

More than one third of the demand came from central banks. This trend was already observed in recent Euro transactions. This has been the highest central bank…

KfW's 4th USD Global Transaction in 2010 illustrates the strength of its USD Programme

The USD 4 billion bond matures on June 15, 2012 and carries a coupon of 1.25 %. The reoffer price was set at 99.86 %, corresponding to a yield-pick up of 29.25…

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