GLG News in Financial & Business Services

Discover's acquisition of the Diners Club global network could greatly improve Discover's merchant acceptance.  However, there are major technical and operational hurdles involved in integrating the two networks.

Where are things at and when do we know it will be changing.  What is on the horizon?

Is Japan property set to tumble?

From the data available for the year ended 31st March 2008, HDFC Bank has grown substantially when compared to banking industry as a whole both in credit, deposits and earnings. Net profit increased by 39.1%; 85% Dividend as against 70% in the previous year. CAR maintained at 13.6%. By looking at the credit growth of 22% in entire banking industry during the year HDFC Bank showed a...

Financial Information providers have entered the slowing part of the curve Credit crisis consequences do not yet seem to be over in spite of past injections from sovereign funds

After some hesitation in the past ING is ready to step up the next Central Eastern European market place. After successful entrance of their perceived third European home market Poland (after the Netherlands and Belgium), ING is now ready for the next phase.

Japan property funding is definitely shaky. However, unlike some of the other problem markets there are global buyers sniffing out bargains.

Understanding the psychology of buyers can help those in the market better prepare and know how to appeal to that market. * Comfort Zones * Decision Making Processes * Psychology of Fear and Responses * Creating a Perspective of Hope Within the Market * The Psychology of Buyers versus Investors  

Media Industries have a problem to be attach immediate, as they are doing, this is the change in his business model. Now the convergence to Internet is more obvious than ever. The paper & TV format will disappear in a few years. But now the have another problem, how big is the audience in term of people, if one day 100K peoples hit the page and the next day 1000K hit, if the growing is 150% in...

While it is true that credit card delinquencies and charge offs are not at their historic peaks, there is considerable evidence that supports the argument that we have not yet seen the bottom of the consumer credit crisis, and that delinquencies and charge offs will likely increase in the next 12 months. While charge offs and delinquencies are not at all-time highs, consumer sentiment and consumer...