Bloomberg Two decades ago Europe’s asset-backed securities (ABS) market was in its infancy. It has not aged gracefully. On a panel at the annual gathering of securitisation bankers in Barcelona, the industry’s old guard reminisced about how things were when they met for the very first time in Cork, Ireland in 1996. Securitisation, a technique for transforming groups of …

  Bloomberg Two centuries after its creation, Norway’s central bank finds itself without any guide in history to help it tackle the challenges ahead. It has largely been forced to follow its bigger peers down a rabbit hole of ever lower interest rates to counter a ‘long-term’ global trend of slower growth, a global savings glut and weakening productivity, according …

  Our Correspondent/ Emirates Business Alpha Data, one of the UAE’s largest multi-disciplined systems integrators, is noted for a number of projects that have helped enhance the local technology landscape while driving national development. The company began with a team of just two employees in 1981, eventually growing to 800-strong workforce that has built and deployed award-winning information and communications …