Finance
Finance
Spanish and Mexican businessmen certify that companies from either country are very likely to succeed if they decide to unite efforts and work together.
The European Commission wants to promote one of its flagship initiatives as far as financial markets are concerned: the creation of a unified European capital market. The aim of the Capital Markets Union is to facilitate access to funding for small and medium enterprises and to remove barriers blocking cross-border investments in the EU. One of the measures that is already being worked on is the modernization of the directive regulating the contents of the prospectuses that European companies have to publish if they want to be financed in the capital market. After consulting with the public last February, the European Commission launched a proposal on the reform of this directive in November.
BBVA is the early-bird Spanish bank in the debt markets in 2016. Once again, it is the first Spanish bank to make an offering on the market in euros of 1 billion euros in 5-year senior bonds. The issue has been very favorably received. International demand exceeded 2.4 billion euros, which has enabled the bank to offer at more competitive prices than initially forecast.
It’s the first major bank to sign on with the award-winning San Francisco firm’s technology-enabled investment management platform
HOUSTON - January 12, 2016 – BBVA Compass and FutureAdvisor are forging an alliance to bring investment management services to a greater slice of the bank's clients through digital means, making the Sunbelt-based financial institution the first major bank to sign on with FutureAdvisor after the San Francisco firm's milestone year in which it combined forces with leading asset-management firm BlackRock.
Today, if a bank defaults, the Spanish deposit guarantee fund will guarantee the deposits of each investor up to a maximum amount of €100,000. However, the European Commission wants this to be an issue that no longer depends on the jurisdiction of each country. Europe is taking a step forward and wants to ensure all European citizens’ deposits have the same guarantees. To what amount? Also to €100,000.
BBVA has hired Derek White, former Chief Design & Digital Officer at Barclays Bank PLC, as Global Head of Customer Solutions. In this role White will drive the transformation of the customer value proposition, including global product and design, customer experience, launching new products and services and leveraging big data and customer analytics.
Before making an investment or buying a savings product (e.g. investment fund or pension plan), we first need to determine our risk profile.
Ahead of the start of the New Year, analysts have issued their forecasts for market performance over the next 12 months. Virtually all agree that equities have a greater revaluation potential than fixed income and prefer the European markets over the US bourse. In Europe, the financial sector, one of the most heavily penalized in 2015, stands out as one of the clearest contenders in 2016.
We are moving closer to the 2016 EU-wide stress testing process, an assessment that seeks to test the resilience of financial institutions under extreme situations. Can banks cope with a new economic crisis? Stress tests provide the answer. Here are the keys to understand what they will be like.