Author: Stanley Bowers

“Due to the interest in Banco Santander’s participation in the process that Citigroup is carrying out, in relation to the potential sale of certain businesses of its operations in Mexico, Santander confirms that it presented a non-binding offer and that, after having been submitted for Citigroup’s consideration, the Bank has been informed that it will not continue in the following stages of the process”. Santander had made public its intention to participate in the operation days after Citigroup announced the sale of Banamex. The Spanish bank joins Ricardo Salinas Pliego in the list of interested parties who intended to keep…

The plan consists of gradually pouring more than a million tons of tritium-contaminated water into the Pacific Oceana radionuclide that cannot be removed by current technologies, but whose dilution in the sea is already practiced in Japan and abroad at operating nuclear facilities. This tritiated water comes from rain, groundwater or water injections needed to cool the cores of several Fukushima nuclear reactors that melted down due to the March 11, 2011 tsunami. More than a thousand tanks were installed around the plant to store this tritiated water after purification operations aimed at eliminating other radioactive substances. But the storage…

In addition to this, during my experience I have come across a series of doubts and some myths that surround the subject of SME credit, such as knowing the ideal time to apply for one, interest rates, the options available in the market, or fear of possible fraud. A revealing fact is that just a few years ago, 92% of the country’s MSMEs did not have access to bank credit. In this context, it is that I can encompass the main differences to know how to identify the different types of credits, and based on that, have a much broader…

In Spain recently it is being experienced how some companies are beginning to install the four-day work week, as the Nordics have been doing for some time. The results are tremendously encouraging. Like any bet in life, only the brave can win. We cannot ignore that we are facing a global paradigm shift and that companies are facing the challenge of “The big recession”. The fact is that, in an economy like Mexico, with the highest number of hours in the OECD and the lowest productivity, being daring with changes and following the trends of the pioneers would be a…

“I don’t think the Fed is going to stop raising rates. If you look at the inflation numbers, they’re really high, but they will come down,” he recently told Reuters Gregory Faranello, chief analyst at AmeriVet Securities in New York. The pace of job growth shows no signs of slowing and the unemployment rate remains low. UBS expects the FOMC to raise the federal funds rate by 75 basis points by its July meeting. The investment bank points out that with these inflation data it is not ruled out that even in the September meeting there will be another increase…

Loans to households, including mortgages, rose to 848.2 billion yuan in June from 288.8 billion in May, while loans to businesses rose to 2.21 trillion from 1.53 trillion in May, according to central bank data. The increase in loans to households reflects the recent relaxation of the housing market, according to analysts. Chinese banks made 13.68 trillion yuan in new loans in the first six months of 2022, the highest figure for the first half on record, central bank data show. Outstanding yuan loans rose 11.2% from a year earlier at the end of June. Analysts had expected growth unchanged…

This is something that those of us who dedicate ourselves to this profession need to keep in mind, especially because, with so many tools and channels that we now have at our disposal to do PR and develop strategies from start to finish, we can forget the importance of relationships, which, without a doubt, it will be condemning us to failure or half-success. Everything in RP is about building relationships Building relationships is literally the name of the game in driving success at all levels of a PR strategy. Starting with the relationship between the client and the PR agency…

If you are very hot, it is your emotions that are moving you. And I am not saying in any way that this is a bad thing or a good thing, without fever many incredible achievements would not happen, although we would also save ourselves some tragedies. But what I ask of you is that you simply ask yourself: are you deciding with your guts or with your head? and decide what suits you right now. Mental training refers to how I transform my state in the face of a challenge and from the moment you are asking yourself the…

Don’t know which video game streaming platform to hire? Here we explain what the main ones are and the characteristics of each one. Thu 21 July 2022 05:58 AM Gaming companies know that to survive they have to enter the rental and subscription format. (Photo art: Salvador Buendía / iStock / Xbox / Sony / Nintendo) Ginger Jaboour @SoyGinGin and Fernando Peñaloza For many decades the battlefield of video games was focused on the war of consoles; the novelties offered by the PlayStation against the Xbox; the Playstation 5 against the Xbox X|S; the PSP against the Nintendo DS, but…