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Lennar International is a division of one of America’s largest homebuilders, Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN). Lennar International raises and directs foreign investments in Lennar through home sales and the United States’ EB-5 immigrant investor program and matches foreign capital with opportunities throughout the Lennar platform.

People need better information about legal services to help them shop around more effectively, a CMA study concluded today.

ACE Group today announced the launch of ACE Multinational Partner, an enhanced package of comprehensive property and casualty insurance.

CHAVA Wind LLC is an innovator in the field of energy technologies and has developed a new business approach with a breakthrough product to succeed in the rapidly growing deployment of smaller-sized Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs) around the world.

OB10, the global e-Invoicing network that is part of Tungsten Corporation plc, now delivers compliant e-Invoicing in Brazil through its partnership with Comprova

Arbitrage Search is a boutique search firm focusing on recruitment for macro hedge funds. Based in the West End of London the company have been in business for six years to date. The company’s director Chris Apostolou shares his thoughts on the issues involved with Macro Trading.

Red Rock Capital is a multi-award winning systematic commodity investment management firm located in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2003 and has approximately $75 million of client capital under management. Its Systematic Global Macro Program has a verifiable track record netting clients +9.97% annualised going back nearly 13 years.

“My ‘firm’ is located at my home office. I am a life-long writer. In the course of my 40-plus year-long career I have authored, co-authored, edited and co-edited 36 books (see my book-list on Amazon), as well as numerous columns/articles in the lay and professional periodical press. Although technically retired, I have not stopped writing and continue to do so in a variety of venues, on a variety of subjects.”

Third Friday Management, LLP is the investment manager of The Third Friday Total Return Fund, L.P. (the ‘Fund’). The Fund was founded in May 2007 and follows a proprietary rules-based market neutral options strategy designed to generate strong risk-adjusted returns in all market environments. The Fund does not employ leverage and does not take a view on market direction. Excess collateral is invested in a diverse portfolio of income-generating securities.

Drooms, the virtual data room provider, has recently strengthened its expertise in the field of lifecycle asset management with the acquisition of DealMarket. Here, Jan Hoffmeister tells us more about the purchase and Drooms’ plans to utilise its new-found assets going forward.

To celebrate the success of Azizi Bank winning the Finest in Finance - Best Bank in Afghanistan award, Mohammad Salem Omaid, President and CEO writes about this bank’s amazing array of services, plus their emphasis on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, as well as women’s emancipation in the workplace.

Coupland Cardiff (CCAM) is a specialist Asian and Japanese fund management group, focused on managing capacity constrained, performance focussed funds within a risk controlled framework.

Zebra Technologies is a global technology firm that specialises in building tracking technology and solutions that generate actionable information and insight, giving companies unprecedented visibility into their businesses by giving physical things a digital voice.

Described by the co-founders as the “e-Harmony for real estate fundraising,” Peloton Street is focused on how technology can make the process of marketing deals and deploying capital more efficient by helping the investment community focus only on the opportunities that are right for them, so they can close more deals faster

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Lloyds Bank has become the first financial services company to undertake a trial with Signly – a British Sign Language (BSL) translation tool. Lloyds Banking Group’s Innovation Labs trialled the technology to understand how Signly could offer an alternative option for up to 250,000 people in the UK who use BSL each day. Since undertaking the trial, the Bank is now looking to test the technology with a wider group of customers.

Swiss International is a financial services company that facilitates the entire process of participating in global financial markets. Being an integrated service provider - they cover the entire process from ‘research and advisory’ services - to the ultimate ‘execution and clearing’ of a transaction.

Managed by LIB Management Ltd, the Libero Development Fund offers investors a truly unique investment strategy. We invited CIO Iain Cahill to talk us through this innovative strategy and the opportunities it presents for investors.

Inception Capital Management is a venture capital firm specialising in private equity of emerging brand name technology companies and cancer biotech companies. They manage several venture capital funds. Currently, they are excited and busy with their underwriters at Network 1 Financial preparing Genprex (www.genprex.com) for a potential IPO on Nasdaq in Q1 2017 after 3 years of development and clinical trials in stage 4 lung cancer with great results.

Adar Capital Partners (ACP) specialises in asset management and wealth management, seeking strong returns for investors by identifying undervalued opportunities that markets sometimes assign without basis. We invited Diego Marynberg to tell us more about the firm and its investment strategy.

At Aspen Consulting Team (ACT), we work with family businesses and legacy families as they walk the balance beam between love and money, socio-emotional wealth. Using a metaphor from the golf course—we go into the deep weeds and thicket of family dynamics and get the ball out to the short grass—so family members and their financial and legal advisors can move it forward. We work with family businesses and legacy families at the top 1% financial level.

Darlingtons Solicitors LLP is a London based law firm with a reputation for dynamism and practical advice, valued by both business and individual clients throughout the city and beyond. We invited Partner Debbie Serota to tell us more.

The reporting and analytics team at Qtrade is the other half of the finance team along with the corporate accounting team. While each team has their core responsibilities, the two teams are tied at the hip and have a reliance upon each for information and data exchange.

The UK House Price Index shows house price changes for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

On 9th December, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) gave an update on the post-implementation review of the loan-based and investment-based crowdfunding market. Their earlier call for input raised a number of issues for discussion; the feedback statement provides a first response to the feedback received and sets out the next steps.

ClearlySo, Europe’s leading impact investment bank, announced today that it has launched ClearlySo ATLAS, an impact assessment solution for private equity and venture capital investors. Octopus Ventures, a London based venture capital firm, focused on backing unusually talented entrepreneurs, is the first customer to go-live and is in the process of rolling out the solution across its portfolio.

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Ethika Investments is a real estate private equity firm formed to provide investors access to a unique platform by tactically investing in opportunistic real estate assets primarily in the United States. We invited Ethika President Jean Paul Szita to talk us through the firm and how it came to win this prestigious accolade.

Research shows that prospective students had big expectations for student life. 101,000 students in the UK expected to live in a modern city centre apartment, with no financial worries, and assumed their parents would contribute nearly £200 a month to their luxury lifestyle. They also expected a wild social life with nights out three times a week, sex nearly every day, and an annual salary of £25,000 to look forward to once they graduate.

An agreement on the EU money market funds regulation has been struck by the European Parliament, Council and Commission, after lengthy negotiations, more than three years after the Commission published the original proposal.

THe.MiS Attorneys-at-Law is a Taiwanese law firm specialising in domestic and international family law, human rights law, litigation and dispute resolution.

Award-winning plantation management company Asia Plantation Capital held its Thailand Annual General Meeting on Saturday, 21 October 2016, at the Renaissance Bangkok, Thailand. Asia Plantation Capital is delighted to announce that despite the slowdown in global economic activity, its revenues grew 6% in Thailand and similarly increased by around 4.5% in Singapore in FY2015.

Lloyds Banking Group is now playing a vital role in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Council for Digital Inclusion.

CNH Industrial N.V. announced today its agreement to acquire the agricultural Grass and Soil implement business of Kongskilde Industries, part of the Danish Group Dansk Landbrugs Grovvareselskab

A self-invested personal pension (SIPP) is one of the most popular long term investment options when preparing for retirement. They are very similar to standard personal pension plans, except they offer a lot more hands-on experience for those taking one out.

Based in Australia, Defone Global Investments Limited is a highly innovative investment firm who specialise in the trading of FOREX and precious metals to both retail and institutional investors. We spoke to Jones Chiu at Defone Global, to find out more about their company and about their ambition of making their mark on the global investment space in 2016.