A Kurdish conundrum & Egypt faces the ghosts of Algeria
Below are some thoughts on the current situation in Turkey re: the Kurdish flare up, the likely outcome of which will be an AKP majority...
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What Silicon Valley has, every FinTech ecosystem needs & investors should look for!
So the prime example of a successful FinTech firm, lending club (with a current total market capitalization of ca. USD 5.5 bn) has been founded in...
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Unintended Consequences of a Greek Default
Credit spreads for Deutsche Bank and BNP are rising vertically. This is mostly in anticipation of a Greek default.BIS statistics show that Germany,...
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HSBC Is More Focussed on Russia & Greece than Indonesia & Thailand
The fact is that we hear about HSBC’s reported strategy changes every several years.It’s a lot of words, presentations, and epiphanies, but little...
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Who's Afraid of Deflation?
Concerns about deflation - the phenomenon of falling prices of goods and services - in the wake of the financial crisis, have provided the...
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