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4 weeks ago | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Thomas List |Detlef Fechtner
Transaction activity in the German real estate market is expected to gain momentum in 2025, according to forecasts by the international real estate service provider and investment manager JLL. „We anticipate a transaction volume of approximately 40 billion euros this year, up from 35.3 billion euros in the previous year“, says Konstantin Kortmann, CEO Germany at JLL, in an interview with Börsen-Zeitung. However, compared to the 10-year average of 80 billion euros, activity remains low.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Detlef Fechtner
Until a couple of weeks ago, Hungary's government under Viktor Orbán held the EU Council Presidency – „the worst in EU history“, according to Green MEP Daniel Freund. He justifies this view by pointing out that under Hungary's leadership, only eight legislative procedures were concluded – while normally more than five times that amount would be expected. This accusation, however, is unfair.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Heidi Rohde |Detlef Fechtner
Adam Farkas is convinced that the consolidation of market infrastructure in Europe – from listing and trading to post-trade services – would help advance the European capital markets. „The number of trading venues, central securities depositories, central counterparties and clearing houses is large,“ says the CEO of the lobbying group Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme) in an interview with Börsen-Zeitung.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Detlef Fechtner
„Affordable housing is immensely important, and the more people take care of it, the more can be achieved.“ With these words, Eckhard Forst, President of the Association of German Public Banks (VÖB), emphasises in an interview with Börsen-Zeitung that regional and national development banks should not be the only ones to address the issue.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Detlef Fechtner
Clara-Christina Streit will take over as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse in May. The 55-year-old German-American will succeed Martin Jetter, who announced two and a half months ago that he would be stepping down after the next Annual General Meeting. Streit worked for McKinsey for 20 years, including as a Senior Partner, before shifting her professional focus to work on supervisory boards in 2012.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Detlef Fechtner
For risk managers, looking at individual exposures will not be redundant in the future, but it will not be sufficient either, according to Tamara Weiss, Chief Risk Officer at Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba). She spoke at the „Credit Business of the Future“ symposium in Frankfurt, organised by Börsen-Zeitung and PwC. A paradigm shift has taken place in risk management in the years since the financial crisis, which have been particularly characterised by geopolitical crises and global problems.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Detlef Fechtner
A wise person once said that following the EU legislature is reminiscent of watching cricket. Twenty two peculiarly dressed men spend many hours on a field. 1% of Europeans watch the game with fascination, getting excited over every detail. Meanwhile, 99% of Europeans don’t understand the rules, whether it's cricket or EU lawmaking, and observe the proceedings with bewilderment. The fact that hardly anyone grasps what's currently happening in Brussels is particularly evident these days.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Detlef Fechtner
Last week Maria Albuquerque was „grilled“ in the European Parliament. The former Portuguese finance minister faced rigorous questioning from EU lawmakers. Expectations for her are high: she is tasked with facilitating the mobilisation of private capital, supporting the green transformation of the economy through financing, and advancing the internal market for banks. At the same time, she is expected to reduce administrative and regulatory burdens for financial institutions and companies.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Detlef Fechtner
Former EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger is not normally one of those with a short fuse. But in exceptional cases, even he gets irritated. When someone states that EU Commissioners are not democratically legitimised and monitored, Oettinger quickly becomes animated – and recalls that as a prospective EU Commissioner he once had to endure several hours of tough cross-examination in the EU Parliament.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
boersen-zeitung.de | Detlef Fechtner
At least one person might be in a celebratory mood. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán famously wanted to pop open a bottle of bubbly if Donald Trump won the US presidential election. He was able to do so surprisingly early, as the election turned out much more clearly in Trump's favour than many observers had expected. No other European leader had been as open as the Hungarian in declaring himself a Trump supporter before the election.
