“The Apple Pay expansion will catapult mobile payments into the mainstream in both France and Switzerland, offering Visa cardholders an easy, secure and private way to pay.” – Sandra Alzetta, Visa Europe LONDON, 20-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Visa today confirmed that … Read the full press release
Posted in Financial, France, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Tagged Apple Pay, cardholders, Sandra Alzetta, VISA, Visa Europe
PARIS, 17-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — François Camilleri est nommé directeur général délégué de Natixis Lease. Il est rattaché à Didier Trupin, membre du Comité exécutif de Natixis et directeur général de Natixis Lease. Francois Camilleri rejoint Natixis Lease en 2002 pour … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, France, Management
Tagged François Camilleri, Natixis Lease
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — On 10 June 2016, following a successful first sale of bonds, Telekom Slovenije d.d. issued 5-year bonds with the designation TLS1 in the amount of EUR 100 million and with an unchanged interest rate … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, Investment, Slovenia, Telecom
Tagged bonds, NLB, Telekom Slovenije d.d.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — We have made several changes to NLB Klik, although with minimum disruption to the service. These include a new look, a redesigned main menu, new functionalities, and more. The main driver behind this total … Read the full press release
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Following receipt of all payments from investors and the registration of commercial paper with central securities clearance corporation KDD on 6 June 2016, NLB successfully concluded the new issue of 12-month commercial paper of … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, Investment, Slovenia
Tagged Mercator Group, NLB
The Group generated over 11,936 new jobs, 2,385 of which were in Spain. Pablo Isla highlighted that “thanks to the Group’s strong growth we are able to generate jobs in all our business markets, most notably, in Spain”. In April, the company distributed … Read the full press release
Posted in Apparel, Fashion & Beauty, Financial, Investment, Retail, Spain
Tagged Pablo Isla, The Inditex
Bonds follow Auto ABS as a refinancing instrument in China Contract portfolio in China at a record level Braunschweig/Peking, 14-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Volkswagen Financial Services have issued a bond in renminbi (RMB) for the first time and fully placed it … Read the full press release
Posted in Automotive, Financial, Germany, Investment
Tagged Chinese investors, RMB bond, Volkswagen Financial Services
OSLO, 13-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Reference is made to the stock exchange notice dated 26 May 2016 and the Annual General Meeting of Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. (the “Company) held 26 May 2016 and a subsequent Board Meeting approving the issuance … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Investment, Management
Tagged Höegh LNG, Jørgen Kildahl, Leif O. Høegh, Morten W. Høegh
ZURICH, 13-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Swiss Re Capital Markets has successfully structured and placed the issuance of USD 75 million of insurance-linked securities by First Coast Re Ltd. on behalf of Swiss Reinsurance Americas Corporation (“SRAC”), which acted as transforming entity … Read the full press release
BRUSSELS, 10-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — An international group of fourteen trade associations and business groups today announced the formation of a Transatlantic Financial Regulatory Coherence (TFRC) Coalition. The Coalition, which represents a large part of the transatlantic financial services community, has … Read the full press release
Revenue was $909.1m, down 30% on the prior fiscal year (2015: $1,307.1m) Adjusted EBITDA(2) down 32% to $223.5m (2015: $326.7m) Adjusted EBITDA margin remained stable year on year, at 24.6% (2015: 25%) Expro outperformed most major peers in terms of … Read the full press release
Posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Financial, Investment, United Kingdom
Tagged Expro, International oilfield services company, Mike Jardon
LONDON, 08-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — At a recent Schroders investment conference fund managers discussed where they are seeing pockets of positivity in the market and what their hopes and concerns are following a volatile start to the year. Marcus Brookes, Head … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Economy, Financial, Investment, United Kingdom
Tagged Alex Tedder, Andrew Rose, Fund managers, Marcus Brookes, Matt Hudson, Schroders investment conference, Schroders plc
The Hague, The Netherlands, 08-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — On Tuesday 31 May, FMO signed a US$15 million senior secured loan, funded by IDF, for an innovative Greenfield project finance transaction. IFC was lead arranger with FMO and the Cordiant/Infrastructure Crisis Fund … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Environment, Financial, Netherlands, Transportation & Logistics, Travel
Tagged bus operator, FMO, Greenfield project, Transambiental in Colombia
AMSTERDAM, 26-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announced today that all of the proposed resolutions were adopted at the Company’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM), which was … Read the full press release
Posted in Electronics & Machinery, Financial, Management, Netherlands, Switzerland
Tagged STMicroelectronics
Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey 2016, shows: Financial market volatility and new regulation are seen as biggest risks to UK growth prospects for next 12 months, according to top financial services firms UK growth still expected to … Read the full press release
ROME, 23-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — SACE (CDP Group) and Credito Valtellinese have finalized a € 10 million line of credit, issued by CREVAL and guaranteed by SACE, earmarked for funding the international growth plans of IVS ITALIA S.p.A. IVS is the … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Food & Beverage, Insurance, International Trade, Italy, Management, Technology
Tagged CREVAL, IVS ITALIA S.p.A., SACE
As expected, continued investments in sales, products and new services had a positive effect on the business performance of the Hilti Group. In the first four months of 2016, sales were up +7.4 percent in local currencies and +7.2 percent … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Construction, Financial, Liechtenstein, Management
Tagged Christoph Loos, Hilti
ENSCHEDE, THE NETHERLANDS, 23-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Peter-Paul Verbeek has been appointed as a member of UNESCO’s COMEST, the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. Irina Bokova, Director-General appointed the Professor of Philosophy of Technology at the University … Read the full press release
Four UT scientists receive a ‘Vidi’ grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO): Wiebe de Vis, Sarthak Misra, Richard Stevens and Ivo Vellekoop. The 800,000 euro grant will enable them to start an innovative line of research and … Read the full press release
AMSTERDAM, 20-May-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The low interest rates constitute an important challenge to the entire financial sector in the Netherlands. They have a far-reaching impact on business models of banks and insurers alike, both now and in the longer … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Financial, Government, Netherlands
Tagged De Nederlandsche Bank, financial sector in the Netherlands, low interest rates
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