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☆ French post offices are trialling changing rooms to let people try on their online purchases
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

France's post office is trialing in-store changing rooms to make online shopping easier. The bright yellow booths are designed to look like French post boxes. AdvertisementFrance likes to do some things differently – and its post office is no different. Related stories"The idea is to simplify the lives of our clients," La Poste said, per The Guardian. La Poste also hopes the experiment will bring more people into its branches, which has dropped as sending letters becomes less common.

Persons: —, ALAIN JOCARD, Shopify, There's, Poste, Chloe Thomas, Thomas Organizations: Service, Shoppers, Capital, French Retailers Association, LinkedIn, US National Retail Federation, Poste, Business Locations: France, Paris, Lannion, La Rochelle, La

ROME, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Italy is considering candidates to take the helm of state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), three sources close to the matter told Reuters, as part of a wider shake-up of state-controlled companies. State-backed investor CDP, founded 173 years ago, plays a key role in keeping strategic assets in national hands. Asked to comment on a change of CEO at CDP, Meloni's office said any rumours of a replacement for Scannapieco were unfounded. Rome is expected to decide on the top management of CDP in March at the latest, immediately after the approval of this year's CDP financial accounts, the sources said. The state lender invests savings made by Italians through the national post office network Poste Italiane.

Persons: Dario Scannapieco, Fincantieri, Giorgia, Scannapieco, Antonino Turicchi, Stefano Donnarumma, Mario Draghi, Elvira Pollina, Susan Fenton Organizations: Eni, ITA Airways, European Investment Bank, Telecom Italia's, Thomson Locations: Italy, State, Rome, EU, Milan

The option however is not top of the list for the Treasury, one of the sources added. Announced in May, Eni's share buyback is underway and is expected to increase the government's total stake to just above 34% of voting shares. Once completed, the Treasury could potentially sell enough shares for Italy to remain slightly over 30% of Eni's capital when factoring in CDP's stake, another source said. At current market prices, 4% of Eni is worth around 2 billion euros ($2.14 billion). Eni's share buyback is expected to end before April 2024 after the group said last month it would speed up the programme launched to reward investors.

Persons: Chris Helgren, Italy's, Eni's, Lucia Albano, Giancarlo Giorgetti, Jan Harvey Organizations: Eni, REUTERS, MILAN, Italy's Treasury, Bankers, Treasury, European Union, Economy, Ferrovie dello Stato, Thomson Locations: Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada, Rome, Italy, dei

☆ Nexi shares fail to open on bid report as CVC declines to comment
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that CVC was in the early stages of considering a possible bid for Nexi, Europe's largest payments company by volume of transactions. Nexi shares have lost 22% this year, adding to a 47% drop in 2022 and stoking speculation about potential takeover interest. By 0730 shares in Nexi were indicated up 16.7% at 6.72 euros a share, not far from a record low of 5.25 euros a share hit earlier this month. The presence of shareholder funds which will eventually need to liquidate their investment and the depressed share price have fuelled persistent speculation about Nexi's future. The government has powers to block any unwanted interest over a company such as Nexi, considered of strategic national interest.

Persons: Alessandro Garofalo, Friedman, Bain, Elisa Anzolin, Giancarlo Navach, Valentina Za, Cristina Carlevaro, Gavin Jones Organizations: REUTERS, CVC Capital Partners, Bloomberg, Nexi, Nets, Thomson Locations: Milan, Italy, Nexi

☆ European markets lower; fresh data shows rising recessionary risks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON — European markets were mixed on Monday as investors digest the inconclusive results of Spain's election and look ahead to a busy week of corporate earnings and central bank meetings. The pan-European Stoxx 600 moved lower in early afternoon deals, falling 0.1%, with all major bourses trading in negative territory. Fresh data pointed to a slowdown in business activity in France, Germany and the U.K. in July, adding to recessionary risks in Europe. Markets in Asia-Pacific were mixed Monday as investors digested key economic data from across the region. Japan's the Nikkei 225 gained 1.29% to start the week after new data showed business activity expanded for a seventh straight month.

Persons: Switzerland's Julius Baer Organizations: Sunday, European Central Bank, Nikkei, Bank of Japan, Federal Reserve, Meta, Microsoft, Vodafone, Ryanair, Italy's Locations: France, Germany, Europe, Asia, Pacific

☆ Italy's top insurers, banks strike Eurovita rescue deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Valentina Za | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MILAN, June 30 (Reuters) - Italy's top four insurers and Germany's Allianz (ALVG.DE) have agreed a multi-billion euro rescue deal for Eurovita, industry supervisor IVASS said on Friday after months of work to broker an accord which also involves 25 banks. Earlier this year, Eurovita became the first Italian insurance company to be placed under special administration, after running into trouble due to higher interest rates. Insurers Generali (GASI.MI), Intesa Sanpaolo Vita (PST.MI), Poste Vita (PST.MI), UnipolSAI (US.MI) and Allianz will set up a new company that will take on Eurovita life insurance policies. To prevent the five insurers from being hit by redemptions once the ban is lifted, banks that sold Eurovita the products are participating in the rescue. The lenders will provide financing to repay Eurovita customers who redeem their policies, while holding the underlying bonds to maturity and neutralising any losses.

Persons: IVASS, Eurovita, redemptions, Intesa, Vitale &, Gatti Pavesi Bianchi, Valentina Za, Alvise Armellini, Alexander Smith Organizations: MILAN, Germany's Allianz, Allianz, Banco, Credit Agricole, Thomson Locations: Eurovita

☆ Version française: 4e nuit de violences avant les obsèques de Nahel
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Le ministère de l'Intérieur a annoncé que 1.311 personnes avaient été interpelées, un chiffre en forte hausse par rapport aux 875 de la nuit précédente, mais souligné sur Twitter que "les violences commises cette nuit ont été d'une plus faible intensité en comparaison à la nuit précédente". "Nous appartenons à la même communauté de foi", a ajouté une femme. Reuters a également pu constater que les accès au cimetière seraient bloqués pendant l'inhumation de Nahel. Jeudi, une marche blanche en la mémoire du jeune homme avait réuni plusieurs milliers de personnes. Reportage Gilles Guillaume, avec Noemie Olive et Tassilo Hummel à Nanterre et Marc Leras à MarseilleOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Italy's Poste CEO says firms to use balance sheet in Eurovita rescue
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MILAN, May 4 (Reuters) - Italian banks and insurers that are being called upon to rescue struggling life group Eurovita will help by using their balance sheet, Poste Italiane's CEO said on Thursday, without elaborating. The Poste Italiane chief executive said all the main Italian insurers and banks distributing products by Cinven-owned Eurovita were working on a possible solution. "Everybody would use their balance sheet instead of funding a recapitalisation," he said, adding he could not explain more. Italian authorities have taken over management of Eurovita and are working on brokering a rescue after strong-arming Cinven into pumping 100 million euros of capital into the insurer. For insurers that rely on banks and financial advisers for their distribution, redemptions totalled 119% of premiums.

The most surprising appointment was that of the new Enel chief Flavio Cattaneo, a seasoned corporate manager who leaves his role as vice president of high-speed train operator Italo to lead the country's biggest utility. He leap-frogged Stefano Donnarumma, the current chief executive of power grid Terna (TRN.MI), widely seen as Meloni's first choice. Enel shares were down 4% on Thursday, with investors fretting over Cattaneo's lack of expertise in the renewable energy sector. Leading politicians in Meloni's right-wing coalition said this issue was a major stumbling block for Donnarumma, along with pressure from League chief Salvini, a strong supporter of Cattaneo. Besides concessions on Enel, Meloni kept a tight grip on the rest of the main appointments.

☆ Italy's Meloni wants woman to head state-controlled company for first time
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

ROME, March 7 (Reuters) - Italy's state-controlled companies should have at least one leader who is a woman, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday, ahead of appointments at key firms such as ENI (ENI.MI), Enel (ENEI.MI), Poste Italiane (PST.MI) and Leonardo (LDOF.MI). "The challenge is not how many women sit on a board of directors, the challenge is when will we have the first woman chief executive in a state-controlled company," Meloni said at an event in parliament. Meloni, 46, is Italy's first female prime minister. Her right-wing government, which took office in October, is expected to decide on chairperson and CEO positions at major state-controlled companies by the end of the month, sources have said. Reporting by Alvise Armellini, editing by Kirsten DonovanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Italian fund buys stake in asset manager Anima in play on bank M&A
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Valentina Za | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The 109 million euro ($116 million) stakebuilding strengthens the grip of Italian investors on a company in which France's Amundi (AMUN.PA) - Europe's biggest asset manager - has also taken a stake. Amundi has a strong presence in Italy having spent 3.6 billion euros in 2017 to buy peer Pioneer from UniCredit (CRDI.MI). Formerly backed by the state and focused on promoting national champions, private equity fund Fondo Strategico Italiano (FSI) targeted a stake of up to 9%. Amundi acquired its Anima stake a month after Amundi's owner, French bank Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA), bought 9.2% of Banco BPM, becoming its single largest investor. Of Anima's 177 billion euros of assets under management, some 100 billion euros are invested in Italian government bonds.

☆ Financial investor buying up to 9% of Italian asset manager Anima
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Valentina Za | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An investor document seen by Reuters showed Mediobanca, which did not name the investor, was buying Anima shares through an accelerated reverse bookbuilding at 4.35 euros a share. At the top of the targeted range, the investment would total 135.7 million euros ($145.7 million) while the minimum stake would cost the buyer 105.7 million euros, Reuters calculations showed. The investor is Italian and is neither a bank nor an insurance firm, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Anima is Italy's biggest independent asset manager and has often been seen as a potential takeover target. Last year, French asset manager Amundi (AMUN.PA) emerged as the third-biggest investor in Anima with a 5.2% stake.

☆ Italy's post office invests $1.3 bln to refurbish branches
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

ROME, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Italy's post office Poste Italiane (PST.MI) plans to invest 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) of mostly public money to renovate 7,000 outlets across the country, aiming to help older people in small towns who are struggling to access public services online. Poste said it would tap a fund financed by the Italian state for 800 million euros and add half that amount of its own money to refurbish thousands of post offices, with a particular focus on towns with less than 5,000 people. Under the terms of the plan, the renovated post offices will provide less digitally savvy customers with machines to access online services within branches, with staff assistance. The revamped post offices would include 4,000 stations for people to obtain documents such as ID cards and passports, or access the land registry. ($1 = 0.9192 euros)Reporting by Valentina Za in Milan and Alvise Armellini in Rome; Editing by Gavin Jones and Jan HarveyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Poste Italiane will benefit from higher interest rates, CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailPoste Italiane will benefit from higher interest rates, CEO saysPoste Italiane CEO Matteo del Fante breaks down the company's better-than-expected third-quarter results, and discusses how the company plans to navigate looming macro headwinds.

☆ Morning Bid: Bank man fried
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"We are in the best of hands," FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said on Twitter, after announcing a bailout that has not quite soothed market jitters. Bitcoin was falling in Asia on Wednesday, so was FTX's collapsing token and Binance's token had the wobbles. As Spectra Markets' Brent Donnelly and others have previously noted, naming rights are a reasonable signal of irrational exuberance. FTX's 19-year deal for naming rights at the Miami Heat basketball team's home arena looks to face a similar fate, as does its sponsorship of the Mercedes F1 team. China's factory gate prices dropped for the first time since December 2020, and consumer inflation moderated, underlining faltering domestic demand.

☆ Внимание: новый способ мошенничества!
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-25 | by ( ) novostipmr.com time to read: +1 min

Им звонили из Молдовы и предлагали отправить товар почтой Молдовы, якобы сюда приедет курьер из почты Молдовы и заберет посылку. Мошенники говорят, что стоимость самой посылки и доставку они уже оплатили и для того, чтобы получить деньги, нужно перейти на сайт почты Молдовы. Скидывают фишинговый сайт»Вот как выглядит фишинговый сайт мошенников:Клиент нажимает кнопку «Получить деньги», выбирает банк и в случае Сбербанка видит такую картину:Очень похоже на сайт Сбербанка. Это и есть фишинговый сайт, сайт-клон. Кстати, официальный сайт почты Молдовы расположен по адресу: posta.mdДавайте еще подытожим: логин и пароль от интернет-банка Сбербанка вводите только на сайте ONLINE.PRISBANK.COM.

Persons: Спеян Роман Organizations: Сбербанк, мошенниковКлиент Locations: Тирасполь, Приднестровье, Молдова

☆ INTERVIU | Ce este Serviciul guvernamental de notificare - MNotify, cui se adresează și beneficiile de care se pot bucura cetățenii
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-05 | by ( ) agora.md time to read: +12 min

AGORA: Dle Postu, pentru început, vă rugăm să ne spuneți ce este serviciul MNotify și ce obiectiv urmărește? Totodată, la fel ca și alte servicii guvernamentale lansate și operate de Agentia de Guvernare Electronică, serviciul MNotify va fi disponibil și pentru sectorul privat. Prin aceasta hotărîre a fost aprobat Conceptul serviciului guvernamental de notificare electronică (MNotify) și Regulamentul privind modul de funcționare și utilizare a serviciului guvernamental de notificare electronică (MNotify). MNotify va elimina riscul notificării tardive sau pierderii acesteia, în general, precum și va preveni divulgarea datelor personale ale destinatarilor. Vezi și aceste știri Un bărbat a intrat în clădirea unei grădinițe și a sustras telefonul unei angajate în mod forțat.

Persons: Dumitru Postu, . P, MNotify, D . P, Expeditorul, . P ., Messenger, expeditorii, Dle, Aleksandr Lukaşenko Organizations: Agenția, Națională de Asigurări, Compania Națională de Asigurări, Medicină, Stat, Banca Mondială Locations: Agenția de, Dle, 10.06.2020, Republicii Moldova, AGORA, UE

☆ „Da’ dacă câșlig?” Ultimii bani pentru un dram de noroc
▼ + stars: | 2020-08-06 | by ( ) ziuadeazi.md time to read: +21 min

Mâna stângă îi este îngreunată de o torbă și o geantă. De sus în jos roade stratul sub care se ascund cifre și bani. Și ea a avut zile când nu avea bani nici de pâine, dar nu i-a părut rău în acele momente că a dat bani pe biletele la loterie și că nu a câștigat nimic. Istoricul povestește că de-a lungul timpului, viața acelor oameni, dar și a descendenților lor, nu s-a schimbat prea mult. Indiferent dacă tatăl lor a câștigat loteria sau a pierdut, viața fiilor lor arăta la fel.

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Și inițial existau monede de 1 și 5 lei. O-zoneO-zone a transformat pop-cultura care exista în Moldova, și a făcut un cântec în română să fie fredonat în orice colț al lumii. Se vindeau peste tot, și erau prezente la orice ceremonie, de la zi de naștere până la Paștele Blajinilor la cimitir. Profesorii îl aveau pentru a scrie și a corecta lucrările cu roși, elevii îl aveau pentru a sublinia lucruri cu diferite culori. Companiile locale au început să le producă la greu, apoi fix cum a apărut trendul, așa și a dispărut.

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