whatsapp INVESTMENT in Crossrail and Tube upgrades are worth £78bn to the UK economy, the London Assembly’s transport and economic development committees have argued in a letter to chancellor George Osborne. KCS-content Crossrail, Tube investment worth £78bn to UK economy The committees urged Osborne to protect Crossrail and Tube upgrade work from the austerity cuts, warning to do so would be a “false economy” for London and the rest of the UK.“These are major strategic transport projects which are crucial to delivering much needed improvements to London’s transport system and ensuring its long-term economic prosperity,” they wrote. “In turn, they have the potential to generate wider benefits for the whole UK economy.”Crossrail is expected to contribute at least £36bn to national GDP over the next 60 years, while the Assembly committees said one estimate put the potential government earnings from the project at £22bn over 10 years through extra tax take, increased property levies and fare profits.Passengers use the Tube for over a billion journeys per year, they said, meaning it is crucial to invest in the network to ensure London remains an attractive place to live and work.Mayor of London Boris Johnson has been vocal in his efforts to persuade Prime Minister David Cameron of the importance of maintaining investment in London’s transport. Read This Next’A Quiet Place Part II’ Sets Pandemic Record in Debut WeekendFamily ProofHiking Gadgets: Amazon Deals Perfect For Your Next AdventureFamily ProofYoga for Beginners: 3 Different Types of Yoga You Should TryFamily ProofBack on the Rails for Summer New York to New Orleans, Savannah and MiamiFamily ProofAmazon roars for MGM’s lion, paying $8.45 billion for studio behind JamesFamily ProofIndian Spiced Vegetable Nuggets: Recipes Worth CookingFamily ProofTortilla Mango Cups: Recipes Worth CookingFamily ProofWhat to Know About ‘Loki’ Ahead of Disney+ Premier on June 9Family ProofCheese Crostini: Delicious Recipes Worth CookingFamily Proof Share Show Comments ▼ by Taboolaby TaboolaSponsored LinksSponsored LinksPromoted LinksPromoted LinksYou May LikeMisterStoryWoman Files For Divorce After Seeing This Photo – Can You See Why?MisterStoryPeople TodayNewborn’s Strange Behavior Troubles Mom, 40 Years Later She Finds The Reason Behind ItPeople TodayTotal PastThe Ingenious Reason There Are No Mosquitoes At Disney WorldTotal PastNoteabley25 Funny Notes Written By StrangersNoteableyMoneyPailShe Was A Star, Now She Works In ScottsdaleMoneyPailSerendipity TimesInside Coco Chanel’s Eerily Abandoned Mansion Frozen In TimeSerendipity TimesBetterBe20 Stunning Female AthletesBetterBemoneycougar.comThis Proves The Osmonds Weren’t So Innocentmoneycougar.comSenior Living | Search AdsNew Senior Apartments Coming to Scottsdale (Take A Look at The Prices)Senior Living | Search Ads Tags: NULL Tuesday 14 September 2010 8:39 pm whatsapp
Compass denies rebate wrongdoing
KCS-content Compass denies rebate wrongdoing Show Comments ▼ Tags: NULL Share Sunday 5 December 2010 11:28 pm whatsapp whatsapp COMPASS has denied any wrongdoing over volume contracts for services it provides for non-food contracts.Reports this weekend suggested that Compass, whose customers include the Ministry of Defence, had asked some of its non-food suppliers for rebates of up to 20 per cent relating to contracts it had with the government. But a Compass spokesman denied there was anything wrong in the practice saying: “Volume rebates are part of the normal course of business and reflect the benefit of our scale, enabling us to deliver value for our clients. “The market in which we operate is highly competitive. Clients have significant choice over who to appoint so we strive to offer the best value as transparently as we can.”Compass admitted there were “legacy” issues with two former suppliers but that these were not part of how it did business today. It said those issues related to only a very small number of historic non-food contracts and “would account for less than 0.5 per cent of UK total purchases that we bought at that time.”Compass said it had gone through a significant turnaround, resulting in increased transparency and new supply contracts. It also appointed a new commercial team.It said all of its products and services were checked against external industry indicators “on a regular basis to ensure we offer our customers the best possible value for money whilst earning a margin for the UK business of 6.4 per cent.”Last week cabinet secretary Francis Maude told government suppliers he expected them to be more transparent in their dealings. More From Our Partners Russell Wilson, AOC among many voicing support for Naomi Osakacbsnews.comSupermodel Anne Vyalitsyna claims income drop, pushes for child supportnypost.comA ProPublica investigation has caused outrage in the U.S. this weekvaluewalk.comFlorida woman allegedly crashes children’s birthday party, rapes teennypost.comNative American Tribe Gets Back Sacred Island Taken 160 Years Agogoodnewsnetwork.orgBiden received funds from top Russia lobbyist before Nord Stream 2 giveawaynypost.comPolice Capture Elusive Tiger Poacher After 20 Years of Pursuing the Huntergoodnewsnetwork.orgBrave 7-Year-old Boy Swims an Hour to Rescue His Dad and Little Sistergoodnewsnetwork.orgAstounding Fossil Discovery in California After Man Looks Closelygoodnewsnetwork.orgInside Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ not-so-average farmhouse estatenypost.com980-foot skyscraper sways in China, prompting panic and evacuationsnypost.comMark Eaton, former NBA All-Star, dead at 64nypost.comI blew off Adam Sandler 22 years ago — and it’s my biggest regretnypost.comWhy people are finding dryer sheets in their mailboxesnypost.comKiller drone ‘hunted down a human target’ without being told tonypost.comBill Gates reportedly hoped Jeffrey Epstein would help him win a Nobelnypost.comMatt Gaetz swindled by ‘malicious actors’ in $155K boat sale boondogglenypost.comFeds seized 18 devices from Rudy Giuliani and his employees in April raidnypost.com
Lord Browne’s US fund is mulling a bid for auctioned BP assets
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Simon set to sign £3bn loan to fund Capital Shopping Centres takeover
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Miliband reaches out to Lib Dems
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whatsapp US CREDIT card lender American Express reported fourth-quarter profits of $1.1bn (£687.8m), up 48 per cent from $716m a year ago.An increase in the use of cards worldwide helped to drive card member spending up by 15 per cent to a record $1.2bn, from $1bn, reflecting higher merchant-related revenues.Fewer overdue payments also helped the company to trim loss reserves, with consolidated provisions for losses totalling $239m, down from $748m in the year-ago period, reflecting continued improvement in credit quality. Consolidated total revenues hit $7.3bn at the fourth quarter, up 13 per cent from $6.5bn a year ago. Amex last week said it would cut around 550 jobs as part of a restructuring process at the company designed to reflect a decline in service volumes, after consumers took to the internet to conduct more routine transactions. Chairman and chief executive officer Kenneth I. Chenault said: “Unemployment levels and housing remain a concern, but other aspects of the economy continue to show signs of improvement.“While we continue to retain the flexibility to scale back our investments as business conditions change, the progress we made during 2010 has put us in a strong competitive position for the next phase of the economic recovery.” American Express, which lends directly to consumers but also competes with Visa and MasterCard to process credit card transactions, has recovered from the financial crisis more fully than many other consumer lenders. Show Comments ▼ KCS-content Tags: NULL
Pricing the future of 140 characters
Sunday 13 February 2011 11:13 pm Share whatsapp Show Comments ▼ Tags: NULL whatsapp Pricing the future of 140 characters THE $10bn price tag for Twitter puts its valuation at 222 times revenue, using estimated figures for 2010. Even if the site comes good on projections that ad income will hit $250m in 2012, the multiple is still 40 times revenue – a fancy amount for a business that is yet to turn a profit.A potential buyer will need more than that if it’s going to put this much cash on the table. And Twitter can learn from its suitors how best to approach the next phase of its growth. Facebook’s advertising revenue hit $1.86bn last year, and the site accounted for five per cent of all online advertising in 2010. With other income streams bringing the total to around $2bn, a $50bn valuation is a little less ridiculous (albeit still extreme) when compared to the Twitter figures. Twitter is nearly ten years younger than Google, two years behind Facebook, and still has a lot to prove. It is used by just 12 per cent of internet users, compared to Facebook’s 62 per cent. If it were to pursue a listing, Google’s example would be one to avoid – during its Dutch Auction initial public offering, a series of filing errors and press reports saw the price of its stock drop from around $115 per share to officially start at $85 per share. Read This Next’A Quiet Place Part II’ Sets Pandemic Record in Debut WeekendFamily ProofHiking Gadgets: Amazon Deals Perfect For Your Next AdventureFamily ProofAmazon roars for MGM’s lion, paying $8.45 billion for studio behind JamesFamily ProofYoga for Beginners: 3 Different Types of Yoga You Should TryFamily ProofIndian Spiced Vegetable Nuggets: Recipes Worth CookingFamily ProofBack on the Rails for Summer New York to New Orleans, Savannah and MiamiFamily ProofChicken Bao: Delicious Recipes Worth CookingFamily ProofCheese Crostini: Delicious Recipes Worth CookingFamily ProofNew England Patriots’ Cam Newton says no extra motivation from Mac Jones’Sportsnaut KCS-content 
King insists a rise in rates is not imminent
In two years inflation is likely to fall below the Bank’s target rate — if interests rates rise.l The forecast is based on interest rates increasing to 2.1 per cent by the end of 2011.“There is a high degree of uncertainty, and a wider than usual range of views among committee members around the overall look for inflation Share Wednesday 16 February 2011 8:43 pm MERVYN King yesterday tried to play down expectations that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) would imminently start raising interest rates to curb inflation, insisting that it would be a “futile gesture”. Unveiling the Bank of England’s quarterly Inflation Report, in which it lowered its forecast for economic growth this year from 2.6 per cent to around two per cent and confirmed that inflation could reach five per cent before June – more than double its two per cent target for the consumer prices index (CPI), the governor said that people were “running ahead of themselves in saying we are pre-announcing, or laying the ground, for a rate rise.”Despite King’s protestations, economists yesterday said the growth forecasts contained in the report indicated a hike in just three months’ time in May. Under the Bank’s “central projection”, which King stressed was not a “pre-announcement” of policy, rates will rise a quarter point to 0.75 per cent in the next four months and to one per cent by the end of the year. By the end of 2012, rates will be at two per cent and at three per cent by the end of 2013. “The Inflation Report projects that inflation is as likely to be above target as below target 2-3 years ahead and does imply that the MPC is likely to hike rates soon, in the next few months, unless there are major disinflationary surprise,” said Michael Saunders at Citi. Economists at both RBS and Barclays brought forward their rate rise expectations to May after the report. Nomura economist Philip Rush said that King’s personal scepticism about the urgency of action to tackle Britain’s above-target inflation may lie behind the divergence in tone between the Inflation Report and his own comments downplaying a rise. “The forecasts are the MPC’s collective judgment, whereas what King says often seems to verge off more to his dovish stance,” he added. The Inflation Report confirmed the divisions on the rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, saying there was a “wider than usual range of views” on both growth and inflation. Economists interpreted the disclosure as evidence that Andrew Sentance and Martin Weale have been joined by at least one other MPC member in calling for a rate hike.BANK OF ENGLAND INFLATION REPORT – MAIN POINTS”True clothing prices were around 5.5 per cent higher than measured in the CPI, equivalent to adding around 0.3 per cent to aggregate annual CPI inflation” whatsapp Show Comments ▼
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Unregulated sites increase spend in Norway
Regions: Europe Nordics Norway Unregulated sites increase spend in Norway AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to LinkedInLinkedInShare to FacebookFacebookShare to TwitterTwitter 17th July 2018 | By contenteditor The Norwegian Gaming Authority (NGA) has reiterated its support for new regulations to limit the impact of unregulated gambling after a spike in advertising from offshore operators.International operators spent some NOK866m (€91m/$107m) on television advertising in Norway last year as a way of getting around the country’s gambling monopoly.Headed by acting general director Bjørn Morten Øen (pictured), the NGA said the total represents an increase in NOK742m in the previous year, but such activity is only possible due to a loophole regarding television advertising.At present, operators can place on channels that are broadcast from outside of the country, allowing them to reach consumers in Norway that are otherwise limited to gambling with state-run firms Norsk tipping and Rikstoto.Regulators in Norway are set to clamp down on the practice and laws are due to change from September 5, pending approval from the European Commission.The current system means Norway is missing out on taxable gambling income, with unregulated operators last year raking in between NOK2bn and NOK2.2bn.Henrik Nordal, director at the NGA, told iGamingBusiness.com that the regulator supports these changes as it seeks to better protect consumers in the country. “The Norwegian gambling regulation aims to ensure that gaming schemes are arranged in a satisfactory manner under public control, prevent negative consequences of gaming and ensure that profit from games can be allocated to approved ‘good causes’,” Nordal said.“A central part of that is to have the most addictive games monitored so the operators are able to provide the necessary responsible gaming environment for our national consumers.“Responsible gaming environment means that there are effective self-exclusion tools and limits on how much you can bet on each object, per day, per week and per month.“The presence of illegal operators without these responsibility tools provide a serious safety challenge for our consumers, especially the most vulnerable of them, and that is our main concern.”Nordal added: “To better meet these challenges our parliament has therefore asked the Ministry of Culture to implement a Domain Name Service-blocking to try and better channel consumers to operators that have a licenses in Norway and hence sufficient responsibility tools implemented.“This is in addition to the payment-blocking of funds destined or originating from illegal operators. We hope these tools together with public education can create a safer gambling environment for Norwegian consumers and limit negative social consequences we see emanating from illegal operators.”Despite having to contend with this issue, regulated gaming in Norway was worth NOK43.7bn last year and has grown by 65.7% since 2012.Norway’s Scandinavian neighbour Sweden will soon open up an application process for companies to take on new licences in the country and offer regulated gambling services.New laws will come into force in Sweden until January 1 next year, with those operators that obtain a licence to face a tax rate of 18%. Topics: Legal & compliance
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