Financial & Business Services
The GLG Financial & Business Services Practice provides customized access to a global network of over 19,000 industry professionals in the Financial Services and Insurance industries and the business services that support them.
Financial & Business Services experts include current and former executives from Fortune 1000 companies, product structure specialists, exchange professionals, mortgage brokers, independent consultants, actuaries, and industry thought leaders.
Leading Experts on Financial & Business Services
Amanda AtkinsChief Executive Officer
Afinia Capital Group
Amanda Atkins is the CEO of Afinia Capital Group. Afinia is backed by Deutsche Bank, Eos and Atkins Capital and assists insurance companies release capital and streamline mature or discontinued liabilities. Concurrently, she is the CEO of Atkins Capital, a consulting firm which provides financial,strategic...
Patrick YoungChairman
Projekt VistulaAn active entrepreneur in Eastern Europe, Patrick Young is an authority on global exchanges having provided advisory services to markets globally (e.g. CME, Deutsche Borse, NASDAQ OMX, NYSE Euronext) as well as governments, investors & regulators. Originally a derivatives specialist, Young has been...
- Dominic Paniccia
Senior Research Director
CARD (Card Analytics, Research and Discussion)
Dominic Paniccia is Senior Research Director at CARD (Card Analytics, Research and Discussion), a firm which offers research and advisory services including surveys of credit card industry managers and executives, in-depth quantitative assessments, forecast models and comparative analytics on thelargest...
Brian HershkowitzChief Executive Officer
Maximum Value GroupBrian F. Hershkowitz is Chief Executive Officer of Maximum Value Group, a consulting firm focused on providing advice to private equity and other market participants in the area of banking and mortgages. Prior to starting his own practice in Dec 2006, he was EVP at Fidelity National Information Services...
- John Salomone
Managing Director
Structured Finance International, LLCJohn Salomone is the Founder and Managing Director of Structured Finance International, Florida based boutique investment and merchant bank, specializing in all forms of asset and corporate finance, including equipment finance, trade and receivable finance, project finance, vendor finance and realestate...
GLG Study Groups in Financial & Business Services(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
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| US P&C Insurance Pricing Trend Experts | 1799 |
| Life & Health Insurance Experts | 1482 |
| Business Process Outsourcing Experts | 1322 |
| Commercial Printing Experts | 1290 |
| Retail Mortgage Origination Experts | 1234 |
GLG NewsSM Analyses in Financial & Business Services(?)
Analyses are solely the work of the authors and have not been edited or endorsed by GLG.
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ACL is one of Thailand's smallest bank
July 3, 2009
Bangkok Bank Agrees to Sell ACL Bank Stake to ICBC | www.bloomberg.com
1) Why is one of the world's largest bank by market capitalization, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), interested in buying ACL, one of Thailand's smallest bank? 2) Bangkok Bank has been trying to 'unload' its 19% stake in ACL since 2007. It seems that this time the price is right....
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Perpetual mispricing machine - Durable misconceptions about Asia’s markets
July 1, 2009
Asian stocks struggle to gain ground | www.ft.com
1. China's growth, a two-decade-old story, has been rewarding on average to those allowed to tap it, but access price has been high and the disappointments painful. We face huge risk of another one now, at a time other exporters and financial investors can least afford it. When might a publicly disclosed...
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Rate of UK job cuts in financial services forecast to decline in Q3
July 1, 2009
U.K. Financial Firms Plan 13,000 Job Cuts Even as Optimism Grows, CBI Says | www.bloomberg.com
The Confederation of British Industry talks about further job cuts in financial services in the next quarter but should this be surprising? The forecast represents a fall in the rate of compared with Q1 and Q2 2009 and this at a time when a major banking merger in the UK is in progress.
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Capital Without Representation
June 30, 2009
Mark Mariotti, Chief Executive Officer, Future Management Holdings Inc
Green groups to sue over RBS investments | www.ft.com
Very tricky investing when it comes to buying stock which can be revalued by the adjustment of the underlying security asset. Buying stock in a bank holding company is similar to buying options. Various issues develop from the government nationalization of previously held assets by the private sector....
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The telephone is moving front and center for major technology companies...
June 26, 2009
Best Buy to Target 15% Cellphone Share | online.wsj.com
Best Buy is a major retailer with only 3% share of the phone market within the United States. The announcement that they hope to capture 15% is a bold admission that they see the phone as a critical platform for future technologies and that they must move now or be left out of a major shift in...
GLG Live Meetings in Financial & Business Services(?)
Upcoming Seminars
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July 8, 2009 | New York
GLG Seminar: (NYC) The State of US Consumer Payments -
July 17, 2009 | Hong Kong
GLG Seminar: (Hong Kong) Mortgage Sector in China -
July 24, 2009 | Hong Kong
GLG Seminar: (Hong Kong) Landscape for Foreign Banks in China
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GLG Webcasts
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GLG Webcast: Great Social Transformation-Current State of China Banking-June 24, 2009 at 10:00 AM ET
June 24, 2009
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GLG Webcast: Bear Market Winners - China Outsourcers on May 21, 2009 at 7:30AM ET
May 21, 2009
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GLG Webcast: Credit Card Transaction Volume Trends - March 20, 2009 at 2:00PM ET/11:00AM PT
March 20, 2009
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GLG Webcast: Mobile Payments - August 14, 2008 at 2:00 PM EDT/11:00 AM PDT
August 14, 2008
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