Corporate actions are a wonderful example of the divide between the front and back offices in finance.

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The firm focused on a number of specialist sectors, including property, renewables, construction, finance and waste with offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester.

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By contrast, Ennahda is able to finance thousands of neighborhood offices, where party workers run after-school activities for local children, donate items to needy families, or help neighbors sort out administrative headaches.

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Personal finance guru Suze Orman visited our offices yesterday to film an interview with Moira Forbes.

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These GIIRS Pioneer Investors are a diverse group of global private equity investors and credit providers, including mainstream global financial institutions, foundations, family offices, leaders in social finance, and a multilateral development bank.

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The objective of these partnerships is to enable such companies to complete their research in ideal conditions (private offices, personalized individual guidance, finance, etc.).

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In the meantime their finance-promoting groups, Jersey Finance and Guernsey Finance, are trying to draw assets from new countries, and are setting up offices in markets like China and the Gulf.

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