Posted on Oct 15, 2020 at 6:45 p.m.Updated Oct 15, 2020, 9:11 PM The curfew brings the subject back to the fore. On the eve of the entry into force of new restrictions to combat Covid-19, the Minister of the Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, announced Thursday that a “New insurance scheme for companies […]
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Institutional investors regain their appetite for housing
Posted on Oct 16, 2020 at 8:32 am The health crisis has reinforced the trend. After having turned away from housing for a few years, institutional investors are now fond of this type of investment. Starting with banks and insurance companies, including mutuals. Through their asset management activity, they have multiplied their investments in this […]
K-pop group BTS ignites Seoul Stock Exchange
Posted on Oct 16, 2020 at 3:41 p.m. To establish itself at the top of all the hits parades on the planet, the South Korean K-Pop group BTS has deployed an original digital ecosystem where it orchestrates a permanent interaction with its tens of millions of fans around the world. Every day, the seven singers […]
How a confidential meeting benefited a handful of Wall Street traders
Posted on Oct 16, 2020 at 12:07 PMUpdated Oct 16, 2020 3:11 PM On February 24 at the start of the Covid-19 crisis, the Hoover Institution, a think tank close to Republicans, organized a small committee meeting. The two speakers, Larry Kudlow and Tomas Philipson, two advisers to Donald Trump, gave their audience a rather […]
Bercy renews the system protecting companies against unpaid debts
Posted on Oct 18, 2020 at 1:31 PM The executive does not want to deprive itself of this key instrument of its business relief kit. According to our information, Bercy has decided to extend the safety net deployed at the start of the Covid-19 crisis so that credit insurers continue to protect the cash flow […]
Stimulus plan: the authorities also appeal to savers
Posted on Oct 19, 2020 at 6:17 PM One of the sea snakes of savings is resurfacing: how to direct French savings towards businesses? The question has returned to the forefront, because during the period of confinement, they reached an additional savings of 87 billion euros. However, half of this “excess” of savings is due […]
IPO fever grips Brazil
Posted on Oct 20, 2020 at 7:30 a.m. Earlier this month, customers in a São Luiz supermarket were frightened when shelves collapsed from a height of 10 meters and killed one person and injured eight others. The accident did not, however, discourage investors, who guaranteed a week later to the large distributor Mateus, owner of […]
Terrorist financing: government wants to strengthen crypto oversight
Posted on Oct 20, 2020 at 12:18 PMUpdated Oct 20, 2020 2:38 PM The government plans to strengthen cryptocurrency oversight, and the entire industry sees it as an opportunistic regulatory escalation. Cryptos “Have no physical existence”, and “Pose a real problem of terrorist financing, I have been saying this for years”, said Bruno Le Maire […]
Insurers estimate the cost of floods in the Alpes-Maritimes at 210 million euros
Posted on Oct 20, 2020 at 6:55 PMUpdated Oct 20, 2020, 7:37 PM The floods that devastated the Nice hinterland at the beginning of October caused some 210 million euros in damage to insured property, the French Insurance Federation (FFA) and the reinsurer said on Tuesday. government, the Caisse centrale de réassurance (CCR). A significant […]
Crowdfunding: loans guaranteed by the state do not break through
Posted on Oct 21, 2020 at 6:30 a.m. When containment fell, the crowdfunding platforms took a cold sweat. “We had a huge halt from March to May”, recognizes Patrick de Nonneville, CEO of October, one of the leaders in the sector. The activity then resumed with difficulty: loan requests fell considerably, with companies preferring to […]