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It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Dividend yield & payout 3. Buybacks 2.
However, there was variation in individual IFIs performances; and many winners of Global Finances Best Islamic Financial Institutions 2025 achieved growth and profitability beyond their peers. Kuwait Finance House (KFH) won as the World’s Best Islamic Financial Institution for 2025. of assets and 7.7% of deposits.
In this context, the cost of capital become a measure of the cost of funding a business: In dividend decision s, i.e., the decisions of how much cash to return to owners and in what form (dividends or buybacks), the cost of capital is a divining rod.
trillion in value last week, a 9.24% decline in value from the Friday close on March 28, 2025. There was undoubtedly some panic selling on Friday, but the flight to safety, whether it be in moving into treasuries or high dividend paying stocks, was muted. US equities had the biggest decline in dollar value terms, losing $5.3
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In my third post at the start of 2023, I looked at US treasuries, the long-touted haven of safety for investors. In 2022, they were in the eye on the storm, with the ten-year US treasury bond depreciating in price by more than 19% during the year, the worst year for US treasury returns in a century.
market structure, where Treasuries, options, and mutual funds already largely settle in one day. market structure, where Treasuries, options, and mutual funds already largely settle in one day. A nice benefit of going to T+1 is in the area of corporate actions, in that ex-dividend dates and record dates now are aligned on the same day.
This integration includes a technology partnership with Nasdaq and an expected launch in the second quarter of 2025. Its franchise also covers Oman and Egypt, with services in Qatar expected to begin by 2025. This allows greater volumes of straight-through processing of trades, eliminating manual elements and reducing delays.
This integration includes a technology partnership with Nasdaq and an expected launch in the second quarter of 2025. Its franchise also covers Oman and Egypt, with services in Qatar expected to begin by 2025. This allows greater volumes of straight-through processing of trades, eliminating manual elements and reducing delays.
Last year, UOB fully integrated its acquired Indonesian and Malaysian businesses onto the bank’s platforms while the migration of the Thai and Vietnamese businesses will be completed in the first half of 2024 and 2025, respectively. Maybank’s 60 sen (about $0.13) dividend was the highest payout since the pandemic. billion; a 2.3%
In my last post , I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years, increasing its share of market capitalization from 42% in at the start of 2023 to 44% at the start of 2024 to 49% at the start of 2025.
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On April 4, 2025, the staff of the SECs Division of Corporation Finance (the Staff) issued a statement addressing the status of certain stablecoins under the U.S. Treasury bills, or registered money-market funds). Holders receive no interest, dividends, or other return from mere ownership of the token. securities laws.
Market and Micro Effects As I have wrestled with the barrage of news stories in the last few weeks, many with large consequences for economies and markets, I keep going back to what this means for my micro pursuits, i.e., analyzing how companies make decisions on investing, financing and dividends and what the values of these companies are.
It also clarifies that compliant payment stablecoins are not securities and prohibits them from offering any interest or dividend payment. Stablecoins Act of 2025 (GENIUS Act). 2] World Bank, Remittance Prices Worldwide Quarterly (2025), [link]. [3] 5] Chainalysis, The 2025 Crypto Crime Report (2025), [link]. [6]
.” Joaquin Sastre Ibanez, Boerse Stuttgart Digital Two major pension funds in the US have already made significant investments in spot bitcoin ETFs: The State of Michigan Department of the Treasury and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board. The latter has committed more than $300 million to IBIT, BlackRocks spot bitcoin ETF.
Stablecoins of 2025 Act the GENIUS Act cosponsored by Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott (R-SC) and Sens. The GENIUS Act would direct the Federal Reserve and Department of Treasury to create and implement reciprocal arrangements with other jurisdictions with substantially similar regulatory regimes (e.g., On February 4, Sen.
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