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February 3, 2016

10 corporations in america having the worst boards

Here is a look into the laryhest are among the worlds most valuable Airlines brand with a combined brand value of over$17.5 billion .The number one airlines brand with a highest brand value is EMIRATES.Emirates  continues to lead the sector with a 21% rise in brand value to US$6.6 billion. Formula 1, the French Open and most importantly football teams from PSG to Real Madrid and Arsenal to AC Milan all display the Emirates logo.




February 2, 2016

May 21, 2015

mobile banking to record 900 million transactions in 2015, set to exceed 1.75 billion users by 2019

"mobile banking Transactions"
"mobile banking to exceed 900 million users in 2015"

The  State Mobile banking adoption :

New findings from leading analysts, Juniper Research, finds that over 1.75 billion mobile phone users will have used their devices for banking purposes by the end of 2019, compared to 800 million in 2014. By 2015, over 900 million people are expected to transact $1 trillion in the global mobile payment market

August 23, 2014

Highest M&A; Deals by Investment banks in 2013;


Goldman Sachs is the biggest investment bank in MA sector


In 2013 Goldman Sachs was the leading bank by the value of managed Merger and Amalgamation deals. In 2013, mergers and acquisitions managed by Goldman Sachs were worth a total of around 604 billion US dollars. The number 2 investment bank  in the list was  JP Morgan with 563.7 US billion dollars, followed by Morgan Stanley
 
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A full-service investment banks usually provide both advisory and financing banking services, as well as sales, market making, and research on a broad array of financial products, including equities, credit, rates, currency, commodities, and their derivatives
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May 27, 2012

Top 5 Players set to cash in on Mobile payments, led by 68% growth




The Mobile Payment Space is the new Battlefield in the tech industry ‘ ” and  has gener proated a lot of Companies keen to grab a pie in what is seen as the next Biggest Tech distruption after Online Banking .  A recent post from Cnet 
provides some key insights on the major 5 Players who  will be in the forefront of action

ISIS, the joint venture between three of the national wireless carriers designed to spur the development of a wide-reaching mobile-payment system,  has  partnered with Visa, MasterCard, and American Express.

Google, , made its first mobile payment move with Google Wallet, an app and payment system that combines deals and discounts with NFC and digital payments. At the onset, Google Wallet will work with MasterCard’s PayPass system and only on Sprint’s Samsung Nexus S 4G. Citi and FirstData are also partners. Google Wallet is currently undergoing trials in San Francisco and New York, and is meant to launch in full “this summer.”
Square is an app and a small, cubelike credit card-reading attachment that slips into the 3.5mm headset jack of mobile phones and tablets, which lets  businesses swipe credit cards through the Square attachment to accept payments. The app also manages peer-to-peer transactions in competition with PayPal. Square has also been pitched as an alternative to NFC. 

PayPal, eBay-Asia owned pioneer of peer-to-peer payments online, already has several apps for mobile phones, and APIs so that other app-creators can add PayPal modules to their own software (like Bump). 

Phone manufacturers: Nokia and Samsung are the first to bring NFC-enabled handsets to the U.S. market (Nokia began with NFC as early as 2008). Microsoft’s next wave of Windows Phones will also be NFC-enabled, according to at least one report



Credit card brands and banks have already partnered with each other and with other mobile payment players. Visa, for instance, has invested in Square, American Express  has  tie up up with Sprint, and MasterCard and Citiis likely to go with  Google.