Given the lack of significant events and news, in January situation on the global equity market was fairly calm with a touch of positive mood. The market participants expected Donald Trump’s inauguration and his first actions as a US president. It is obvious that inauguration is a mere formality, though in case with Trump everyone was greatly interested whether he would keep his campaign promises or not.

ABLV offers several innovations in products and services. They include companies for investments in commercial properties and corporate finance advisory.

On 12^th of January, 2017, changes in the Basic Information for Investors on ABLV European Corporate EUR Bond Fund and Basic Information for Investors on ABLV Global Corporate USD Bond Fund become effective.

In December, global equity market kept the positive mood set in November following the US presidential election won by Donald Trump. After things calmed down, forthcoming meeting of central banks – the European Central Bank and the US FRS – came to the foreground.

In November, world financial markets experienced strong emotions as a result of the presidential elections in the US and the meeting of OPEC member states.

Q3 2016 was favourable for ABLV Bank, AS and the group. All major business and efficiency indicators remained high.

Citadele bank plans to perform the issue of subordinated bonds, amounting up to EUR 40 million. The bonds are supposed to be admitted to the regulated market – Baltic list of debt securities of the stock exchange Nasdaq Riga. The purpose of the issue is to strengthen the bank’s capital in order to achieve future business objectives by using the raised funds as the bank’s subordinated capital, as well as to perform early repayment of subordinated loan obtained from the Latvian Privatisation Agency. The bonds will be offered to the investors in Latvia and Lithuania, and qualified investors from other EEA countries will be also able to acquire the bonds.

In October, the global stock market moved sideways while keeping lower volatility. Investors mostly focused their attention on quarterly corporate reports, as well as on US pre-election jitters.

September turned out to be rather complicated month for global financial markets. Following the quiet conditions in August, volatility at the markets was resumed due to actions taken by the central banks of the leading countries. First was the ECB session at the beginning of the month, which was expected by some market players to bring additional stimulation measures under the ECB monetary policy.

According to the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), published by Z/Yen, a leading London-based think tank, Luxembourg has shown great result, having occupied 12^th place, thus rising by 2 positions as compared to previously.