Tag: banks-finance-insurance
“The challenge is to redirect savings from where they are to where they should be going”
SAccording to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), investments to decarbonize our economies must be multiplied by a factor of three to six, particularly in developing countries. However, in…
ECB sees inflation falling
ECB President Christine Lagarde, in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday December 14, 2023. MICHAEL PROBST / AP It is the end of an era and the beginning of a new chapter on…
how researchers and artists attempted to humanize slaves reduced to numbers
A statue of a British slave trader, torn down by anti-racist protesters in Bristol in June 2020, was replaced on July 15, 2020 by that of a black woman who…
French bankers and insurers are far from being as transparent
The President of the National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet, the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne (from left to right), during a ceremony to mark the…
At Lloyd’s, the British insurance market, a dive into the archives of slavery
In 1807, a “risk book” by Horatio Clagett, an individual insurer, recorded all the trips covered. The first box contains a letter: “A” for goods that have arrived. LLOYD’S COLLECTION…
Do you believe in the power of money? A survey dissects the relationship of French people to their bank
“Do you think that banks can contribute to a fairer use of money in society? ” Opinions are divided. According to the fourth Observatory on the Sense of Money Crédit…
“The drop in inflation comes from the gas and electricity bill, not from monetary policy”
SOn the dashboard of the European Central Bank (ECB), the annual inflation figure for October, +2.9%, is no longer that far from the 2% target. Should we see in this…
What changes on December 1 for your budget, and the tax deadlines not to forget before the end of 2023
December is marked by the entry into force of new measures. But also by a whole series of tax meetings not to be forgotten… End of the Agirc-Arrco penalty for…
“Between Goldman Sachs and Apple, the failure has been recorded and divorce proceedings have begun”
VSeveryone has their own destiny. That of Marcus Goldman, a young German Jew who emigrated to the United States in 1848, was to create, in 1869, a company specializing in…
organized crime financiers come out of the shadows
Undated photo of the American Meyer Lansky (1902-1983), accountant and right-hand man of mafioso Lucky Luciano (1897-1962). YAMI 2 ARTE.TV – ON DEMAND – DOCUMENTARY Their names are Meyer Lansky,…
conviction confirmed on appeal for a subsidiary of BNP Paribas
” You have won. » Standing on a bench, facing several dozen civil parties, in the gallery of the Paris courthouse, Tuesday November 28, Me Charles Constantin-Vallet sums up in…
the delay of the banks sanctioned by the judges
Lhe delay with which banks have implemented “strong authentication”, supposed to limit fraud, risks harming them: the Court of Cassation has just ruled that one of them had to reimburse…