Aberdeen Standard Investments

Apple | January 20, 2020

Everyone knows that the global corporate tax system needs to be overhauled, Apple (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Monday, backing changes to global rules that are currently under consideration. The growth of internet giants such as Apple has pushed international tax rules to the limit, prompting the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to pursue global reforms over where multinational firms should be taxed. The reforms being examined center around the booking of...

Credit Suisse | February 10, 2020

Credit Suisse’s incoming chief executive, Thomas Gottstein, plans to put Switzerland’s second-biggest bank on a growth offensive following predecessor Tidjane Thiam’s cost-cutting exercise, he told Reuters on Friday. “Cost discipline in our industry has been and will continue to be very important. At the same time, I think we are in a better position than at any time in the last few years to also have meaningful balance sheet growth,” Gottstein said in an interview....

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Persefoni and Deloitte | November 14, 2022

Deloitte and Persefoni have formed a strategic alliance to develop analytics solutions in order to help provide organizations in the banking and insurance sectors a new path for measuring, disclosing, and managing their carbon footprints — both operational and financial — as part of their climate journey. As chiefs of sustainability and finance work together to address their climate management and accounting platform (CMAP) needs, Persefoni and Deloitte's shared cl...

Investing.com | April 02, 2020

Oil markets surged Thursday, amid hopes that the price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, which has flooded the market with extra supply, may be coming to an end. AT 9:20 AM ET (1320 GMT), U.S. crude futures traded 8.9% higher at $22.12 a barrel, while the international benchmark Brent contract rose 8.5% to $26.84. Global oil prices have fallen by roughly two-thirds this year as the coronavirus has slammed global economies at the same time as the world's two largest exporters, Saudi Arabia...