FT Alphaville- The Italian house price conundrum November 18, 2019The country’s property sector is an outlier across Europe.
- The real story behind push payments fraud November 18, 2019And why banks are failing to deal with the problem.
- Further reading November 18, 2019Child labour forces as the new schools; A Shanghai GPS mystery; Google’s totally creepy medical harvesting; plus much, much more..
- Thought for the weekend November 15, 2019Gaze at the stars, and pick winning stocks.
- Shut down the internet, student housing edition November 15, 2019A student housing scheme we reported on in June is now impacting the students.
- The Italian house price conundrum November 18, 2019
Category Archives: Corporate governance
An outlaw story
We all like a good outlaw story, whether a western bandit, a gangster or a spy. Fortunately, in finance, we also have outlaws. One guise of them is insider traders. Unfortunately, most of them are neither very likeable, neither very … Continue reading
What’s in a name ?
You probably all know EasyJet, the British low-cost airline. What you probably don’t know, is that it doesn’t own its brand name. Its founder, the young Greek-Cypriot businessman Stelios Haji-Ioannou (in the meantime Sir Stelios), has kept the name for … Continue reading
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What do you do with $ 30 bn cash ?
On October 10th, it was revealed that Google is developing a self-driving car and that it had already tested it over 140,000 miles of public roads. I also learned, reading that article, that Google is sponsoring a prize for landing … Continue reading