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The year that was and the year that will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... presidential elections will be held on 12 February; the Netherlands will conduct general elections on 15 March; and, the French will get to vote for its president on the 23rd of April. These are some of the challenges we will face next year. And of course ...

State Street partners with blockchain startup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... private stocks to assist private companies in issuing minibonds via crowdfunding platforms; made allowable recently by a French government initiative. The bank has partnered with renewable energy crowdfunding specialists Lendosphere, Enerfip and Lumo ...

Super fund backs Sydney water

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... from 2021 to 2035. The $54 billion fund first invested in the plant in 2001, acquiring a 49% equity interest alongside French waste management and water treatment company SUEZ (51%). UniSuper head of property and private markets, Kent Robbins, said the ...

CBA EGM becomes customer advocate chief

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
Commonwealth Bank executive general manager customer advocacy and remediation, Dr Brendan French, will head the bank's customer advocate arm. CBA said the role and customer advocacy function will strengthen the firm's accountability for fair customer ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon while at the same time urging Britain to get on with it if only to end the uncertainty. As French president Francois Hollande put it, "Being responsible means not wasting time in engaging with the question of Britain's ...

Eurozone splintering is biggest risk in Brexit fallout

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... July 24, political figures from Greece, Spain, Italy and France have discussed the possibility of similar referendums. French far right Front National leader Marine Le Pen, for example, said Brexit was evidence the EU was "decaying" and that "[France] ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... better-designed cab windows for trucks, to stop cyclists being crushed. It had to be done at a European level, and the French were opposed." The path of least resistance, less treaties to be re-negotiated, systems to be modified, models re-worked, is ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... and France, although it was only the former where conditions improved more generally. Akin to their Italian counterparts, French retailers reported job losses and the scaling back of spending on goods for resale as operating margins remained under pressure. ...

Africa to become major alpha source

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... significant movement from rural to urban regions, accompanied by higher per capita income. As an example, Kotecha cited French multinational food products company Danone, which saw sales figures in Africa rise by 600% in 2014 compared to 2008. "A lot ...

Calls to mandate funds to offer social impact option

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... projects would have a multi-billion dollar impact on the wider community. Australia just needs to take a lesson from the French, the Community Council for Australia (CCA) said. The French superannuation program, called the Solidarity Fund, allows all ...