Author: IMS STRATNEWS
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Coconut taps Elaine Clark for Advisory Board
Award winning Elaine Clark, who is a specialist in advising the self-employed and small businesses, has been appointed to the advisory board at Coconut. The firm is an exciting automated smart business current account, built for the unique needs of freelancers and self-employed people. It offers this group the accounting tools they need to manage…
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SMEs IN UK GET LONG AWAITED INVOICE FINANCE BOOST
SMEs: New Legislation The UK Government has decided to introduce laws that will support small businesses (SMEs) in their efforts to retrieve money from unpaid invoices. Previous unfair contracts prevented small suppliers from accessing invoice finance; unbalanced contracts with larger companies prevented many SMEs from securing invoice finance from providers such as banks…
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TEMASEK & THE ITALIAN CONNECTION
Temasek, the Singapore investment company, has announced its first equity acquisition in an Italian company. Along with Juan Carlos Torres, investor and chairman of the travel retail group, Dufry, the investment agreement aims at supporting the development of Italian firm Moncler SpA into potentially one of the world’s leading luxury groups. The two long-term orientated…
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SCOTLAND THE BRAVEST?
There are very few occasions that are momentous, despite the word being over used for both the significant and the mundane. However, it’s unlikely that too many people will view today’s Scottish Referendum independence vote as anything less than just that – momentous. After three hundred years, the prospect of the 5 million population nation…
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State Street points Keogh towards Asia
State Street Corp. has appointed Bob Keogh head of Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) for the Asia Pacific region. Keogh will be based in Hong Kong, where he will lead hedge fund, private equity and real estate businesses in Asia Pacific. He was previously senior managing director for State Street’s hedge fund servicing business,…
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