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IronFX was granted enhanced Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) licence
October 15th, 2014
IronFX Global UK Ltd was granted with an enhanced Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) licence. The enhanced permission will allow IronFX Global UK to deal as principle and agent in investments as well as to hold client funds. With this ...
French bank turns to Twitter for money transfers
October 14th, 2014
One of France’s largest banks,Groupe BPCE, launched a service on Tuesday to allow its customers to transfer money to other people via tweets on social network Twitter Inc. (TWTR.N). Groupe BPCE , France’s second largest bank by customers, is an ...
KPMG focuses on diversity
October 14th, 2014
KPMG has admitted that the class, gender, ethnic and sexual orientation of it staff does not reflect the make-up of wider British society or its client base. And in order to begin addressing the oversight, it has unveiled a ...
TradeStation Launches TradeStation Ifx
October 14th, 2014
TradeStation Forex, a division of IBFX, Inc., a Monex Group company (Monex Group, Inc. is listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange code: 8698), has announced the launch of TradeStation Ifx, a new forex brokerage service ...
UK banks pay out $2.5 billion for swaps mis-selling
October 14th, 2014
Britain’s biggest banks have paid out less than 40 percent of the 4 billion pounds ($6.4 billion) set aside to cover the mis-selling of complex interest rate hedging products, according to data from the financial regulator. The mis-selling is ...
U.S. small business confidence drops in September
October 14th, 2014
U.S. small business optimism fell in September as more owners said they expected a slowdown in profits and sales, tightening credit conditions and a harder time filling job openings, according to a survey released on Tuesday. The National Federation ...
Calculating the Grim Economic Costs of Ebola Outbreak
October 14th, 2014
The topic everyone on Wall Street is discussing urgently but quietly isn’t the volatile global stock market. It is Ebola. While thousands of health care workers seek to control the deadly virus in West Africa, and the Centers for ...
Ex-UBS Banker Tax Trial Rides on Underling’s Credibility
October 14th, 2014
Raoul Weil, once the head of UBS AG ’s global wealth management business, faces a criminal trial that may turn on the credibility of a former subordinate who says he and Weil helped Americans evade taxes. Jury selection is ...
In Court, Lawyer Calls E.C.B. Bond Plan ‘an Egregious Extension’ of Powers
October 14th, 2014
In legal news, Europe’s highest appeals court began hearing arguments on Tuesday morning on a suit that aims to block a European Central Bank bond-buying program that has never been deployed — but whose mere announcement two years ago ...
$20 Billion Property Trusts in India halted by Tax Rules
October 14th, 2014
The Indian government has announced rules for setting up real estate investment trusts, vehicles that may spur $20 billion of property development. None of the money will be spent unless the country’s tax code is revised. “REITs cannot take ...
