Argus Geopolitical Intel

GEO´™ PR Channel: FTI Consulting to Acquire Andersch AG Release Date: 28 June 2019 at 10:23 BST - Frankfurt, Germany Corporate Finance & Restructuring Segment to Establish Key Foothold in Germany with the Acquisition of Leading German Restructuring Firm FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Andersch AG, a leading German restructuring advisory firm with offices in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Dϋsseldorf. The acquisition is expected to close during the third quarter of 2019, subject to German regulatory approval and other closing conditions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2012 by former Big Four accounting firm partners Tammo Andersch and Mirko Liebthal, Andersch serves clients across Germany ranging in size from middle-market (Mittelstand) to large, multinational German-based corporations that are facing financial, operational and strategic challenges. Andersch professionals possess deep experie...

Foreign Secretary and Leadership campaign hopeful, Jeremy Hunt has told sources that the UK would consider requests for support for a US led military strike on rogue nation Iran. Hunt is quoted as saying he would consider requests on a "case by case basis" According to earlier reports and tweets from incumbent US President, Donald Trump the US was "cocked and locked" (sic) to strike deep into the heart of Iran’s infrastructure, in response to ´the rogue nations downing of an unmanned US drone. The President allegedly called the strike off just minutes before he gave his full authorisation after senior US military officials gave a risk assessment that up to 150 individuals would be killed in such a raid. Trump cited that this fallout outweighed the loss of an unmanned military drone. However, US military sources have said that the Pentagon carried out a "full scale" cyber attack "successfully" targeting Tehran´s command, control, missile and rocke...

GEO´™ PR Channel: Eurasia Group launches PoliticsFAST Release Date: 11 June 2019 - New York Eurasia Group launches PoliticsFAST, a new investor platform combining live market data with political risk analysis Eurasia Group is proud to introduce PoliticsFAST , a new platform to access our proprietary political risk data together with real time market analytics. This product is the first in the marketplace to give users the ability to explore the impact of politics on asset prices by leveraging Eurasia Group's two decades of political risk analysis and data into a live market data environment. “PoliticsFAST is an essential platform for navigating the market implications of a geopolitically volatile world,” said Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group.  Investors will now have all the tools in one place to track political events and market movements in real time. PoliticsFAST brings content streams from Eurasia Group's world-class analyst platform and its GZERO Media arm together...

Some say that Chinese mobile firm are a risk to national security others say that the entire "embargo" is another move to re-balance the US/Chinese trade war. Either way the mobile company is now in serious jeopardy with Google withdrawing access to its android platform, global chip maker ARM stopping the supply of its chips and today, Japan´s Panasonic have ceased trading - all to comply with Trump´s executive order to effectively ban US corporations from dealing with Huawei without an"appropriate" license. The "embargo" not only covers direct "associations" but also affects any corporation from supplying any equipment that uses US technology. Both Huawei and the Chinese government are confident that none of these restrictions will affect its forward domination and market capture, however, already the knock-on effect has started to penalise the 200m individuals who currently use their smartphones. Watch this space.

NEWSBYTE: Even before Donald Trump landed at Stansted Airport for this day Royal beano, he escalated his war of words with yet another Twitter rant this time leveled at incumbent London mayor, Sadiq Khan. Trump lowered himself to little more than a playground spat comparing Khan to New York City mayor Bill de Blasio going on to taunt the London mayors height.