Author Archive: Jeremy Parkinson
Short-term pain, long-term gain
The credit crisis waves of 2008 triggered a panic across the globe and to all types of sectors, irrelevant of their operating nature. The storm specially haunted the financial services sector, where the Kuwaiti banking sector was no exception to its regional and international counterparts. Crunching derivative loss at one of the prominent local bank, […]
Airline launches green initiative
Kenya Airways regained profitability in the year 2009/10 despite the difficult economic climate. During the year ending 31 March 2010, KQ made an operating profit of $24m. This was a remarkable achievement given the economic downturn experienced during most of the financial year. The capacity deployed increased by 6.7 percent largely driven by new destinations […]
“Insolvency has been like a maze”
Mexican history has been dynamic and rich. It comes from the ancient great Olmeca, Mayan and Aztec cultures in the prehistoric stage, through 300 years thereafter of colonialism under the Spanish Crown domination; 11 years independence war; two empires – Iturbide and Maximiliano; foreign intervention and invasion wars by the US, England and France; the […]
Ontario makes FDI shortlist
The Ontario region should be on the UK’s overseas investor shortlist. It has a highly skilled workforce, its banking system is the envy of the world, it will shortly have one of the lowest rates of corporate tax and it has a first-class infrastructure system. Clare Barnett, UK Ontario government senior economic officer, says Ontario’s […]
Central American region enters EU
Six years ago the Central American Region and Dominican Republic signed the Free Trade Agreement with the US (DR-CAFTA). The treaty has eliminated commercial barriers and taxes for the introduction of certain products, which certainly has brought further economic development for the participant countries. Despite the international financial crisis there has been a considerable increment […]
Advisories eye Moroccan deals
Kettani Law Firm (KLF) is a major Moroccan business law firm founded in 1971 by Professor Azzedine Kettani who was admitted to practice as a lawyer in 1968 and is approved by the High Court of Justice of the Kingdom of Morocco. He was joined in 1992 – after internships in France and the US […]
Austria relaxes legal hurdles
In the past, the registration of a branch of an English company in Austria encountered significant legal resistance and was often rejected by the courts. The cause of this resistance was more often than not a lack of understanding of the Austrian courts of the legal structure of English companies and the inability of the […]
Is the recovery still under construction?
It used to be said that you could measure a city’s economic wellbeing in direct proportion to the number of tower cranes visible along its skyline. But now, with so many building projects shelved or in limbo awaiting remission from the downturn, the exact opposite is often true, with those erstwhile symbols of prosperity standing […]
Tanzania poised to become a destination
The largest state in East Africa has for decades been best known for its touristic attractions – most notably the ever snow capped Mount Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater. Mining is giving the country a new layer of international prominence. In little more than a decade, Tanzania has emerged from being […]
The back-to-front world view of Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered does not see the world in quite the same way as other banks. In March this year, the bank appointed V Shankar as chief executive of the Middle East, Africa, the Americas and Europe and moved him to Dubai. Read the job title again, and it almost looks like a deliberate snub to […]
