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CME Group and GFI Group Terminate Merger Agreement
February 2nd, 2015
CME Group Inc. and GFI Group Inc. announced that they have each determined to terminate their previously announced merger agreement following today’s special meeting of GFI shareholders. Preliminary results from the GFI shareholder meeting held earlier today in New ...
IFRS improves cross-border financial communication – consistency is key
February 2nd, 2015
With debate around the rationale for global accounting standards continuing throughout 2014, there is still concern expressed about the use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), with some policymakers around the world preferring a less committal form of global ...
KPMG: What Audit committees cite as top challenges in 2015
February 2nd, 2015
KPMG issued a press release saying that: Audit committees cite uncertainty, volatility and high risk environment as top challenges in 2015 More Boards Reallocating Oversight Duties as Risk Environment Strains Audit Committee Agendas. Audit committees around the world said ...
FXCM announced on Stockholder Rights Plan
February 2nd, 2015
FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM), a leading online provider of foreign exchange, or FX, trading and related services, announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a Stockholder Rights Plan (the “Rights Plan”) and declared a dividend distribution of one right ...
Oil Companies Draw on Creative Financing to Stay Afloat After Prices Tumble
February 2nd, 2015
North America’s small and mid-sized energy companies are searching for creative ways to stay afloat as investors smell blood in the water from the almost 60 percent fall in the price of oil since June. Oil and natural gas ...
Greeks fly in for debt showdown
February 2nd, 2015
The anti-austerity Greek finance minister is to meet with chancellor George Osborne today as part of a Europe-wide charm offensive to win over creditors and fellow politicians. Investment bank Lazard has been hired by the Greek government to advise ...
Bank of Russia released on key rate
January 30th, 2015
Bank of Russia issued today a notice informing that: On 30 January 2015, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to reduce the key rate from 17.00 to 15.00 percent per annum due to the shift in the ...
EU-US legal services break-through
January 30th, 2015
Conference of chief justices offers a way out of the old plot-line. A very significant step was taken a few days ago in the ongoing negotiations between the US and EU legal professions on opening markets in legal services ...
Europe’s loan portfolio market to top €100bn in 2015
January 30th, 2015
European loan portfolios with a face value of €91bn were sold in 2014, up from €64bn the previous year, says PwC in a Q4 update from its Portfolio Advisory Group. PwC say the European secondary market for loan portfolios ...
SMEs bear brunt of UK’s £10bn Hidden Tax Burden
January 30th, 2015
The UK tax system is costing businesses up to £10bn in hidden costs a year, with SMEs bearing the majority of this burden according to new research by AAT. Ahead of HMRC’s end-of-the-month self-assessment deadline, AAT has researched the ...
