The Geneva Report has been published every year since 1999 by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) (a full list including each year’s theme and authors here) and is commissioned by the International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB), a research foundation affiliated to the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. […]
Today’s News
- FIS Acquiring Worldpay in the Latest Payments Mega-DealFIS announced today that it is buying leading payments processor Worldpay in a $35 billion deal, one of the largest acquisitions ever in the payments space; the deal would create a global giant in payments and back-office financial services since Worldpay is the world’s largest merchant payments processor; the deal values Worldpay’s shares at $112.12 […]
- Evaluating Funding Circle’s Prospects in CanadaIn their recent annual results Funding Circle announced they will be opening up in Canada later this year; today the peer to peer lending market in Canada has been dominated by Lending Loop in the small business lending space; there will be many challenges for Funding Circle with one of the major hurdles being on […]
- Community Banks Provide a Great Opportunity for InvestorsIn an op-ed on CNBC.com the president and CEO of the Florida Bankers Association writes about the importance of community banks; while their numbers have been reducing along with their share of total assets, community banks are still responsible for 46% of small business loans; this metric alone demonstrates how important these small banks are […]
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