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11/04/2012 
Finance is only human after all !
LFF talked with Dr. Thomas Fenzl about the role that humans play in the financial business. The Economic psychologist teaches at the Institute of Psychology at the Alpen-Adria University of weiterlesen
04/04/2012 
Do your job and we will take care of the rest
Silicon Valley in the United States is the birthplace of the world’s leading high tech companies like Apple, Yahoo and Google. For ambitious European companies, the San Francisco Bay Area remains a weiterlesen
03/04/2012 
Freedom and property rights are inseparable
Finland comes out on top of this year’s International Property Rights Index (IPRI). Sweden comes in at a close second. Luxembourg shares 6th place with Denmark and New Zealand. The IPRI is an annual weiterlesen
30/03/2012 
Not drowning but waving
Economic recovery is still some way off but there could be a light at the end of the tunnel. Ernst & Young’s Eurozone Spring Forecast (EEF) is predicting a slow return to growth in 2013 after a mild weiterlesen
29/03/2012 
London and New York are not untouchable
London comes out first in the latest Global Financial Centres Index, ahead of New York and Hong Kong. The GFCI is published by the initiative Long Finance and tracks competitiveness amongst 77 weiterlesen
22/03/2012 
Luc Frieden s'est rendu au Frankfurt Finance Summit
Le ministre des Finances Luc Frieden s’est rendu le 21 mars au Frankfurt Finance Summit 2012, événement organisé par la Frankfurt Main Finance. Ce rendez-vous annuel et prestigieux rassemble les weiterlesen
21/03/2012 
How the Rich can help the Poor
Since 2006, the ONG Friendship Luxembourg has been contributing to the livelihood of the ultra poor in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Dependent for its funding on private individuals and companies, the NGO weiterlesen
20/03/2012 
Luxembourg Shining Abroad
The financial crisis has caused a lot of collateral damage to large parts of the international economic system. Even though the outlook is bleak, there are some rays of sunshine. The trust and weiterlesen
20/03/2012 
Klaus Regling Speaks at Luxembourg Journée Boursière
On 19 March the thirtieth Journée Boursière, an annual gathering hosted by the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, drew nearly 1000 members of the Luxembourg financial, business, political and diplomatic weiterlesen
19/03/2012 
Wealthy and Healthy
Do you remember the pledge launched by the two billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet more than a year ago? They asked fellow billionaires to give away at least half of their assets to weiterlesen
15/03/2012 
Danish Dynamite
For small countries like Denmark and Luxembourg it is only natural to look beyond their national borders. By promoting highly sophisticated financial products and their underlying ICT solutions, weiterlesen
15/03/2012 
Music was my first love and it will be my last
Could you imagine a life without music? There is music on the radio, in cinemas, in discos, at parties and even at funerals. But music is not only pleasure and enjoyment, but also inevitably a type weiterlesen
14/03/2012 
Do you remember acid rain?
Bruno Tertrais, author of "The Apocalypse is not Tomorrow”, calls for an end to all the doom and gloom. At the Spring Conference of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (alfi) in weiterlesen
01/03/2012 
Quelle image pour le Luxembourg ?
Paradis fiscal? Un des pays les plus riches du monde? Qualité de vie élevée ? Provincial?... Comment le Luxembourg est-il perçu à l’étranger? Lors d’une conférence au Luxembourg, des représentants weiterlesen
01/03/2012 
Hello! What’s your number?
The United States wants to clamp down on US tax evaders hiding their money at financial institutions outside the country. There is legislation with sharp claws to help reach this goal. It is called weiterlesen
22/02/2012 
Public development institutions are still crowding out investment in microfinance
In a recent report, "Role Reversal Revisited", the microfinance rating agency Microrate argues that development finance institutions (DFIs) not only continue to hinder the growth of the industry by weiterlesen
20/02/2012 
Running in the family
Consolidating clients’ assets is one of the main priorities of a family office. This is not an easy task because wealth tends to be widely dispersed. But help is on the way. Luxembourg-based weiterlesen
20/02/2012 
We need more Europe, not less
In 2011, more than 120,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) received support from the European Investment Bank. The funding for SMEs reached a record level, providing EUR 13 billion worth of weiterlesen
16/02/2012 
No measures that harm global economy
Learning from the financial crisis, the United States has passed tougher laws regarding the finance industry. Luxembourg’s finance minister Luc Frieden is not opposed to the new US legislation in its weiterlesen
08/02/2012 
When are you leaving the club?
The eurozone departure of countries like Greece and Portugal was one of the main topics at the international conference organised by City Week in London, which gathered finance experts from more than weiterlesen