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Home and car loan borrowers will get an amortisation schedule from their lender. Photo: Shutterstock
MARKETS

Jargon buster: amortisation

Delano has been unpicking some of the terminology that can make the financial sector difficult for outsiders to follow. In this instalment: “amortisation”.

Aaron Grunwald • 09.08.2024
If an interest rate went from 4% to 3%, it went down by 100 basis points (bps). Photo: Ries Bosch/Unsplash
MONEY

Jargon buster: basis points (bps)

Aaron Grunwald • 08.08.2024
Bryan Ferrari, investment advisor and portfolio manager at Spuerkeess, says dollar cost averaging (DCA) helps avoid the trap of trying to time the market. Library photo: Matic Zorman/Maison Moderne
MONEY

Jargon buster: dollar cost averaging

Aaron Grunwald and Chris Stoneman • 07.08.2024
Jean-François Terminaux is chair of the Finance & Technology Luxembourg (FTL) association. Photo: Eva Krins/Maison Moderne
MARKETS

AI potential in finance: mutualised services, cybersecurity, customisation

Guillaume Meyer • 06.08.2024
According to the EU market regulator Esma, global crypto firms may undermine Mica’s objectives if they use EU-authorised entities to solicit clients while maintaining significant operations outside the EU. Photo: Shutterstock
MARKETS

Esma clarifies Mica compliance risks for non-EU crypto entities

Kangkan Halder • 06.08.2024
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded products (ETPs) are increasingly popular with investors. Photo: John Vid/Unsplash
MONEY

Jargon buster: exchange-traded funds (ETF)

Aaron Grunwald • 06.08.2024
In the investment world, alpha and beta measure the outperformance and volatility of a stock, fund or portfolio. Photo: Shutterstock
MONEY

Jargon buster: alpha & beta

Aaron Grunwald • 05.08.2024
(l-r) Anaïs Sohler and Sophie Dupin, partners at Elvinger Hoss Prussen, highlight the changes and obligations when subcontracting ICT services under the digital operational resilience act for the financial sector. Photo: Elvinger Hoss Prussen; Montage: Maison Moderne
MARKETS

New Dora standards prompt ICT subcontracting revisions: Elvinger Hoss Prussen

Kangkan Halder • 02.08.2024
Laura Foschi is the executive director of Appui au développement autonome (Ada), a Luxembourg NGO that aims to boost the autonomy of vulnerable people through inclusive finance. Foschi highlighted a few aspects of the NGO’s 2023 annual report during an interview with Delano on 12 July 2024. Photo: Christophe Hebting
MARKETS

Inclusive finance has “major role” in lives of vulnerable people: Ada

Lydia Linna • 31.07.2024
Luxembourg’s financial intelligence unit saw a 16% decrease in total reports in 2023, driven by reduced e-commerce activity, but increased traditional reporting. Photo: Shutterstock
MARKETS

Financial intelligence unit receives 44,519 reports in 2023, blocks €609.4m

Kangkan Halder • 30.07.2024
Luxembourg is the fourth largest holder of United States debt among foreign countries. Photo: Shutterstock
MARKETS

Luxembourg becomes 4th largest foreign holder of US treasury securities

Kangkan Halder • 29.07.2024
“These results--obtained with mild assumptions--underline the importance of uncertainty and state-dependent discounting for climate-aware equity valuation,” said Ricardo Rebonato, scientific director of Edhec-risk climate impact institute, commenting on the outcome of a recent study. Photos: Edhec, Shutterstock; Montage: Maison Moderne
MARKETS

40% of global equity value at risk from climate inaction: study

Kangkan Halder • 29.07.2024
Alexandre Gauthy is a macroeconomist at Degroof Petercam Luxembourg. Photo: Degroof Petercam Luxembourg
MARKETS

An update on the US economy

Alexandre Gauthy (Degroof Petercam) • 28.07.2024
Europe must mobilise an additional €5.4trn by 2031 to advance its green, digital and defence security and strategic autonomy objectives, said European Central Bank economists Ettore Dorrucci, Carolin Nerlich and Othman Bouabdallah in a blog post in June. Photo: Shutterstock
MARKETS

€5.4trn investment by 2031 needed for EU’s future: ECB economists

Kangkan Halder • 27.07.2024
The draft law creates a new function, that of supervisory agent in the issuance of dematerialised securities. Photo: Shutterstock
MARKETS

Finance of the future: Luxembourg’s blockchain innovation

Thierry Labro • 26.07.2024
“To support investment decisions, investors also need information on the sustainability impact of investments. Esma, therefore, considers that all financial products should disclose specific sustainability information regardless of the stated sustainability ambition of the product,” said EU market regulator Esma in an opinion published on Wednesday on sustainable finance. Photo: European Securities and Markets Authority
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Esma urges overhaul of EU sustainable finance framework

Kangkan Halder • 26.07.2024
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