Large fine for Volksbank and Night of the Tech: Figures Tesla, Meta, Microsoft

Good morning! It is Thursday, January 30 and we start with the economy blog. Last night revolved around the Fed and figures from American Tech Concerns. Last night the American central bank decided to keep the interest rate at 4.25 to 4.5 percent. The Federal Reserve, which should take independent interest rates, thus resisted calls from President Trump to lower interest rates.

The biggest news this morning: De Nederlandsche Bank imposes two fines on the Volksbanktogether for 20 million euros. The bank did not properly check customers for money laundering and financing terrorism in the 2020-2023. She also failed in the field of ‘risk management’ between 2018 and 2023. The ‘internal governance and internal controls’ were not in order, according to a press release.

De Volksbank is parent company of ASN, among others. It is certainly not the first bank to pay for defective money laundering control.

Furthermore, some large American tech groups came with figures. We list them:

• Teslathe car company of Elon Musk, saw the sale of electric cars declining for the first time last year compared to the previous year. In 2024, the group sold 495,570 vehicles. That remained larger than the big Chinese competitor BYD. Last quarter, Tesla’s turnover amounted to just over $ 25 billion. Analysts had counted on 27 billion. As is often the case with Tesla figure presentations, Musk did come up with great promises. He expects to start a completely self -driving taxi service within six months in Austin, Texas. Musk, nowadays very close with Trump, said according to the Financial Times Also that a decision by the president to delete purchase subsidies for electric cars does not worry: the rise of electric driving can be ‘not stopped’.
• Bee Metaparent company of Facebook and Instagram, the figure presentation turned to reassuring words from CEO Mark Zuckerberg: the company can do competition in the AI ​​area with the Chinese Deepseek Easy, according to the CEO. Zuckerberg is planning ‘hundreds of billions’ dollars to invest in AI. After better than expected results (almost $ 50 billion in turnover in the last quarter of 2024, and 20 billion profits), the company’s price rose sharply.
• Then there is still Microsoft. This has mainly problems to meet the enormous demand for cloud services, it reported. The company has capacity shortages, which means that yields are left behind. As a whole, the Seattle company exceeded expectations with nearly $ 70 billion last quarter.

And that’s not all. The message also comes from the banking world Triodos has a new CEO: Marcel Zuidamcurrently the highest man at Nationale-Nederlanden Bank. Furthermore, today we will keep the Figures from Shell in the holes, and the round table discussion in the Lower House about the usefulness of State aid of Tata Steel, With which the steel company (the largest exhibitory CO2 in the Netherlands) can green.

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