He also has big stakes in life insurance and banking outfit Mediolanum as well as in soccer team AC Milan.
HSBC's attempt to breathe life into its investment banking arm had failed, and things still haven't picked up.
Interventions followed to illustrate the role of broadband in access to medical care in remote areas, for the transparency of democratic elections, participation in social life and access to banking services.
Orix, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1998 and whose shareholder base is more than 50% outside Japan, also operates in investment banking, life insurance, venture capital and in the financing of real-estate development.
Theoretically, Japan has enough savings to do this but in practice the savings don't get intermediated through the banking and life insurance companies and the trust fund bureau and the post office savings account in sufficient quantities to buy these bonds.
Nearly one in 10 companies can't service the principal on their debt, according to insolvency trade body R3, suggesting that many are being kept on life support by a banking system unwilling to recognize losses and under political pressure to maintain corporate lending.
So for the world as a whole, if a financial transactions tax put a bit of a dampener on financial innovation and trading (whether low frequency or high frequency), that would probably be no reason to weep - unless (to state the obvious) investment banking is your life.
Suncorp Group Limited, formerly Suncorp-Metway Ltd, is engaged in the provision of banking, general and life insurance, superannuation and funds management products and related services to the retail, corporate and commercial sectors in Australia and New Zealand.
They made their money incrementally, in old-line industries like oil and banking, after a young life spent toiling at odd jobs brought savvy and street smarts.
The macroeconomic picture has improved and investor confidence has found a new lease on life after Tokyo halted the deterioration of the banking system, public funds juiced up the statistics and numerous private companies began restructuring their operations.
Although they have shown a bit of life in November and December, the UK private banking system has contributed very little to the recent surge in UK money supply.
The bug infests most elements of everyday life: electricity, gas and water supplies, telephone services, the banking system, health services, transport and industry are all at risk if it is not caught in time.
At the ground floor of the IPO life cycle, these are quality early-stage portfolio companies of our investment banking firm First Line Capital.
Welby has unusual standing in the world of money because in a previous life he served as an oil industry executive and now sits on the parliamentary banking standards committee.
Not to be left out, Liberty Life, the third-biggest life assurer, is forging a close alliance with Standard Bank, Africa's largest banking group.
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Its trusted smart life solutions bring security and contactless performance to a wide range of applications such as eGovernment, banking, mobile transactions, transport ticketing, access management, infrastructure, device authentication, RFID tagging and gaming.
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The Insurance services segment covers life, medical, motor, marine, property and credit insurance products and services, and Islamic banking segment provides Islamic banking solutions through its subsidiary, BLOM DEVELOPMENT BANK SAL (BDB).
Malaysian banking group AMMB has hired Morgan Stanley to help it sell a stake in its profitable local life insurer.
Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), which epitomized the diversification trend by combining insurance underwriting, securities, retail brokerage, consumer banking and asset management under one red umbrella in 1998 moved earlier this year to shed its life and annuity business.
Of course, life is different for the highly skilled expatriates, whether from the west or the east, who staff the banking and professional services sectors.
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