Britain’s Finance Minister in China to Promote Trade

… in China to Promote Trade. Britain’s finance minister tells China’s premier there are “many opportunities” to expand commercial ties as he starts a visit aimed at developing trade as the United Kingdom prepares to leave the European Union. Dec. 15, 2017, at 5:50 a.m.. Britain’s Finance Minister in China to Promote Trade …

Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he would choose former collaborator Carlos Urzua as his finance minister if he … The economist, with a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, served as Mexico City’s finance minister from 2000 to 2003, when Lopez Obrador was …

Another important aspect of finance for any company is how it chooses to pay its employees. Especially for remote employees, a strategy becoming more and more popular, payments to locales all over the world can be costly, considering the typical automated process for paying wages: depositing money …

Last week, The Wall Street Journal published a short article with the headline “Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staff.” This humble story stirred up a tempest that grew to include hundreds of online comments, emails and social-media posts. Arguments erupted on LinkedIn and Reddit that, some …

Adobe Inc.’s finance chief Mark Garrett says his team struggles keeping track of which jobs have been filled at the software company. The process can take days and requires finance staff to pull data from disparate systems that house financial and human-resources information into Microsoft Corp.’s Excel …

YORKTOWN, N.Y.-The New York State Comptroller’s Office, in a review of the Yorktown Central School District’s procurement policy, identified $728,341 in expenditures that were paid without sufficient documentation over a two-year period. The school district, however, disputes much of the state’s findings …

While its record earnings have led to calls from the Finance Ministry for the state-owned lender to boost its dividend payouts, Gref has other ideas. The former economy minister under President Vladimir Putin plans to wait until 2020 before increasing dividend payouts to 50 percent of profit, the level the …

Thierry Breton, the former French finance minister who runs Atos, said the company is “absolutely determined” to complete the transaction, and that it has the backing of Gemalto’s biggest shareholder, state-run investor Bpifrance Financement SA. A representative for Bpifrance said the fund won’t comment …

I’ll let you in a little secret: Not all personal finance writers follow all those money management tips we preach. I won’t rat out my colleagues, but I, for one, don’t track my spending closely or stick to a real budget. I’ve never called my credit card company to ask for a lower interest rate or pushed for a fee to be …

… investors are pressuring miners to reward investors with cash, rather than dive into big deals. Excess cash will be paid as dividends, but Glencore is also “open for business” when it comes to acquisitions, which makes the company different than the other miners, said Chief Financial Officer Steve Kalmin.