Among MENA investment banks, Jadwa Investment stands out for achieving strong growth despite challenging market conditions. Launched in 2007, Jadwa has been profitable for each of the last three years, and has grown assets under management by 13 times, from less than $150m in June 2007 to more than $1.9bn in October 2010, at a…
Insolvency in Mexico has been seen like a maze, the seven-heads demon or the economy evil. Insolvency is an effect of financial distress situations, which, in turn, are the effect of economic mistakes or diseases, abuse or greed, whether from the government or private sector or both. At the end, insolvency, most of the time,…
Established in December 1978 as a state enterprise, Petroleum Authority of Thailand or PTT was formed to conduct petroleum and related businesses. Over two decades later, PTT Public Company Limited (“PTT Plc”) was registered as a company under the Corporatisation Act on October 1 2001 with a capital of 20bn baht ($673m). Currently, PTT Public…
In layman’s terms, transfer pricing is all about the price at which goods or services are sold between different companies within an international group of companies. It is important for the authorities to monitor a company’s setting of transfer prices as in some instances businesses can use the system to avoid taxation by manipulating transfer…
Established in December 1978 as a state enterprise, Petroleum Authority of Thailand or PTT was formed to conduct petroleum and related businesses. Over two decades later, PTT Public Company Limited (“PTT Plc”) was registered as a company under the Corporatisation Act on October 1 2001 with a capital of 20bn baht ($673m). Currently, PTT Public…
In layman’s terms, transfer pricing is all about the price at which goods or services are sold between different companies within an international group of companies. It is important for the authorities to monitor a company’s setting of transfer prices as in some instances businesses can use the system to avoid taxation by manipulating transfer…
Why all the fuss and bother about innovations in the forex industry? What innovations really matter now and can change the whole course of the market development? After decades of dramatic growth and maturing, foreign exchange trading has reached a new era. The start of the new millennium witnessed rapid technological development and with it…
Henrik PoulsenAge: 43Education: M.Sc., Finance and Accounting, Aarhus School of Business, DenmarkCareer highlights:2008 President and CEO, TDC A/S 2007 Operating Executive, KKR Capstone2006 Executive Vice President, LEGO Group “The telecoms market has limited underlying growth and declining prices,” says Henrik Poulsen. “This is a challenge we share with most of our peers in the European…
If any proof were needed that the world economy has not yet fully emerged from recession, then the harsh austerity measures currently being imposed in many countries – and the often less than enthusiastic reaction to these measures of many of the citizens of those countries – clearly signal that the voyage to full recovery…
The credit crisis took a wrecking ball to the balance sheets of many global banks. Not Saxo Bank. This feat marked the bank out. This Denmark-based operation now has a hugely expanding geographic footprint and its distinctively outspoken CEO is not shy of challenging the traditional big players – as well as the perceptions of…
