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2013-04-churchill-capital

In 2000, Patrick Churchill and his associate, Justin  Hilbert, both of whom are Anglo-Saxon, set up an investment consulting firm in Bermuda: global strategic consulting, expertise and brokerage of hedge funds, trading, corporate banking, private equity… a broad spectrum of activity. Their main market is then the European market, and they seriously consider whether to move their headquarters to London.

2013-aurelys

Established in Switzerland in 2004, Aurelys transferred its headquarters to Monaco in 2012. As a new member of the Monaco Association of Financial Activities (AMAF), on 6 March 2013 the company organised a conference at the Hotel Hermitage – in the presence of Mr. Etienne FRANZI, AMAF President, and Mr. Bernard ROUSSELOT, Chairman of the AMAF Commission in charge of promotion of the Monaco financial centre - in order to present its organisation, strategy and activities.

In partnership with Cabinet Gordon Blair & Cie and Monaco for Finance, the Monaco Economic Development Chamber organised a breakfast event at the Baur au Lac Hotel in Zurich on 28 February.

2013-02-27

For the first AMAF luncheon conference of 2013, the President, Mr. Etienne Franzi, invited Mrs. Danièle Nouy, Secretary General of the Prudential Control Authority (ACP), to address an audience of more than one hundred AMAF members, accountants and insurers on the theme The Evolution of Banking Regulation and Supervision.

2013-article-ampaMr Leggat-Smith, president of the Monaco Association for Professionals in the Administration of Foreign Structures, confirms that the organisation has forty members and was created in 2004, although its foundations were laid in the 1990s, when the government of Monaco wished to establish a link with what are generally known as Corporate Service Providers.

castelliniBy order Ruler published on December 21st 2012, H.S.H. Prince Albert II appointed Jean Castellini at the post of Minister of Finance and Economy. Jean Castellini thus succeeded Marco Piccinini on December 26th 2012.

2012-MVCAThe Monaco Private Equity and Venture Capital Association has existed for six years. Its president, Zsolt Lavotha, explains its objectives.

'Our organisation, MVCA, aims to attract new investors to Monaco. At the same time, it strives to promote a category of assets which has long existed and which is now becoming more popular: private equity.'

2012-12 Fonds-Garantie

This Monday 3 December Etienne Franzi, Chairman of the Monegasque Association of Financial Activities, and Isabelle Rusabrunetto, Director of the Budget and Treasury Department, signed the second amendment to the agreement constituting the Monegasque Credit Guarantee Fund.

2012-10-article-risques-small

Banque Populaire Côte d’Azur, represented by Dominique Guignard, Director of the Monegasque branch, together with the Chambre de Développement Economique and the insurer Gramaglia, organised a conference-debate on country risk on the 18th October, led by Nicolas de Buttet, Arbitrage Director at Coface.

2012-lancement-mff-small

On Tuesday, 18 September 2012,  Bernard Rousselot, President of the Commission for Promotion of the Financial Market of Monaco at the Monaco Association of Financial Activities (AMAF), Jean Castellini, member of the AMAF Board, Jean Dastakian, Secretary General of AMAF, and Laurence Genevet, Director General of EPI Communication, introduced the new website, dedicated to the dynamic and coordinated promotion of the Monaco Financial Market, ‘Monaco for Finance’ (www.mff.mc).

2012-09-entrepot-douanier small

The Monegasque company Société d’Exploitation et de Gestion des Entrepôts de Monaco (S.E.G.E.M) was created last summer in Fontvieille. Claude Valion, its President, has a very clear objective. He aims to promote Monaco’s art market.