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Anthony S. Dzadzra
Mr. Anthony Selom Dzadzra is a distinguished lawyer, economist, public policy expert, and author. A graduate of Princeton University, he holds a Master in Public Policy from Princeton and a Bachelor of Law (LLB) from the University of Ghana, Legon. His academic portfolio also includes a Master of Arts in Economic Policy Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Philosophy, both from the University of Ghana. In addition, he holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Policy, Governance, and Democratization from the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, and a Master of Arts in Theology from the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture, Akropong-Akwapem.
Mr. Dzadzra began his public service career in 1995 as an Assistant Budget Analyst at the Ahafo Ano North District Assembly. Between 2001 and 2010, he progressed through various roles at the Ministry of Finance, including Budget Analyst, Senior Budget Analyst, and Principal Budget Analyst.
He also served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, and as Governance Pillar Lead with a focus on Monitoring and Evaluation. From 2011 to 2012,
Anthony Saunders
Anthony Saunders is the John M. Schiff Professor of Finance at NYU Stern. Professor Saunders received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and has taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses at NYU since 1978. Throughout his academic career, his teaching and research have specialized in financial institutions and international banking. He has served as a visiting professor all over the world, including INSEAD, the Stockholm School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne.
Professor Saunders holds positions on the Board of Academic Consultants of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors as well as the Council of Research Advisors for the Federal National Mortgage Association. In addition, Dr. Saunders has acted as a visiting scholar at the comptroller of the Currency and at the Federal Monetary Fund. He is an editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance and the Journal of Financial Markets, Instruments and Institutions, as well as an associate editor of eight other journals, including Financial Management and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. His research has been published in all of the major finance and banking journals
The decade started promisingly enough. The $164bn merger unveiled in January 2000 between rising internet massive AOL and media behemoth Age Warner was thought to be a good indicator that mergermania was on the horizon and that companies that might not be too similar in shape and outlook could get together and be profitable. But despite then AOL’s chief executive Steve Case declaring the deal as an historic moment, just ten years later the “deal of the century” is being unwound. Not only that, the Moment Warner-AOL merger – valued at $360bn – is derided as one of the worst mind out deals ever made.
The scale of the disastrous union becomes apparent when one considers their former values. At the time of the official split last December, AOL had a market value of less than $2.5bn. When the two companies announced their merger, AOL was worth almost $200bn, and Occasion Warner some $160bn, now whittled down to around $36bn. This means that over a decade, the company has lost over $320bn of its initial value. As Daniel Stillit, mergers and acquisitions analyst at UBS, says: “The decade opened at the high point of a merger wave. It’s ending at t
Allaudeen Hameed
National University of Singapore Business School (Singapore)
Bangkok, Thailand
December 14th-15th, 2017
Professor Hameed`s research interests include return-based trading strategies, stock return co-movement, liquidity, role of financial analysts and international financial markets. His research work has been published in leading finance journals such as The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Review of Financial Studies. He is an Editor at the International Review of Finance and serves on editorial boards of the Financial Management, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal.
Professor Hameed has won numerous awards including the Outstanding Researcher Award at NUS (2015), the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Alumni Merit Award (2011), and Best Paper Awards at the FMA European Conference (2016), Swiss Society for Financial Market Research Conference (2014) and the China International Finance Conference (2008). He has delivered keynote addresses at international finance conferences.
Professor Hameed has also held visiting professor appointments at Chinese Universi
Anthony Browne on restoring banks’ reputations | British Bankers’ Association | Video
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Anthony Browne is the man tasked with cleaning up British banks. He explains what has been achieved in reforming the UK’s banking sector since the financial crisis and the Libor scandal, and what’s next in terms of embracing Islamic finance at a national level, supporting SMEs, and growing the economy.
World Finance: A tall order, so, over a year on and what do you think you’ve achieved?
Anthony Browne: Well it’s been an interesting year, both for the BBA and for the industry as a whole. A difficult year in many ways, but I do think we end it in a far better position than we started it. The beginning of this year was just after the wake of the Libor scandal, which caused a complete political storm.
The government set up the parliamentary commission on banking standards, which was like a public enquiry for the industry, investigating everything. We’re now at the tail end of that, Libor is largely restored, and I think confidence in the industry is being restored as well.
It’s helped by economic recovery. It’s helped by th