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The world’s top body to fight money laundering and financial crime on Monday warned that the international high value art and antiquities market has become vulnerable to money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The Financial Action Task Force called on art dealers and governments to up their efforts to fight illicit funding in these markets.

Belgian crowdlending platform Beebonds is offering investors an opportunity to cofinance the Arche coliving project in Luxembourg. The investment is offered through a 3 million euro green bond, the firm said.

The Arche project is located in Bettembourg, one of Luxembourg City’s main peripheral municipalities. It is the first joint project of the company Picaroon SA. This Luxembourg-based company, founded in 2011, is active in the sale, rental and purchase of ships, as well as in setting up real estate projects.

Trading shares during the day that a company releases its earnings reports by going long on ones with positive news and short on the ones with negative news can generate a daily return of 1.3 percent.

That is the bold conclusion of a study conducted jointly by the Amundi Institute and the Toulouse School of Economics. Using artificial intelligence software from Causality Link and a long-short portfolio, the researchers were able to confirm that news signals influence short-term price movements.

The collective value of Luxembourg investment funds has plunged more than 800 billion euro from record levels reached a year ago as inflation, rising interest rates and the war in Ukraine took their toll on assets domiciled in the grand duchy.

Jan Kemper will step down as chief financial officer and chief operating officer of German neobank N26, he announced in a post on social media. He only joined the challenger bank in July 2021. 

N26, one of Europe’s fastest-growing fintechs with more than eight million clients, is partly owned by Luxembourg-based venture capital firm Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital. Ilavska is among a range of VC firms who collectively have invested 1.8 billion euro in N26.

JPMorgan Asset Management plans to convert a number of active mutual funds in the US to passive ETFs next year. The asset manager is not alone. Globally, passive is starting to catch up with active.

One might have thought Luxembourg’s real estate market was doing well compared to other European cities, but for a long time, exact comparative numbers weren’t available. That’s all changed with the release of a new property index covering Luxembourg, the result of an 18-month long labour-intensive and expensive project.

The Luxembourg Stock Exchange has admitted China International Capital Corporation as a new trading and listing member with immediate effect. CICC will enable the indirect trading of shares listed on Shanghai the Shenzen stock exchanges via the Luxembourg bourse.

The Federal Reserve last night raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 4.25-4.5 percent, rounding off a cumulative tightening of 425 basis points this year.

Total assets under management in Europe amounted to 28,400 billion euro by the end of September, reflecting a decline of about 12 percent from year-end 2021 levels as bond and stock markets fell amid rising inflation and interest rates and slowing economic growth following the outbreak of war in Ukraine.