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SEC Announces Charges Against Standard & Poor’s for Fraudulent Ratings Misconduct
January 22nd, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a series of federal securities law violations by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services involving fraudulent misconduct in its ratings of certain commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). S&P agreed to pay more than $58 ...
IronFX Global announces on negative client balances
January 21st, 2015
IronFX Global has issued an announcement stated that: It has fully covered any negative client balances arising from the recent SNB event. IronFX the Global Leader in Online Trading has announced that it has covered any negative client balances ...
Davos: Bosses ‘less optimistic’ about global economy
January 21st, 2015
Chief executives are less optimistic about the economy this year than last, a survey unveiled at the World Economic Forum suggests. PwC‘s annual survey shows that just 37% think the economy will improve in 2015, down from 44% last ...
New acquisition in technology solutions for capital markets
January 21st, 2015
With a press release, Ipero announced the acquisition of ClearMomentum Ipreo, a global leader of data, market intelligence and productivity solutions to financial services and corporate professionals, today announced its acquisition of ClearMomentum, provider of portfolio monitoring applications to ...
Neonet and Quod Financial Offer an Integrated Trading Solution
January 21st, 2015
Neonet Securities, the independent agency broker and execution specialist, today announced that it has integrated with Quod Financial, the provider of adaptive trading technology. The integration offers mutual customers using Quod Financial’s technology access to trading with Neonet as ...
Zagreb Stock Exchange successfully goes live with Ancoa’s market surveillance platform
January 21st, 2015
Ancoa, providers of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy & sell-side firms, today announced that it has successfully integrated its real-time market surveillance capabilities with the Zagreb Stock Exchange’s (ZSE) trading platform across all trading segments; ...
Bonds, shares, gold supported ahead of expected ECB action
January 21st, 2015
European shares held close to a seven-year high on Wednesday and Asian shares hit a six-week peak investors bet the European Central Bank would unveil a stimulus drive to boost the flagging euro zone economy. Expectations that the ECB ...
Investors cautiously optimistic ahead of ECB meeting
January 21st, 2015
US stocks recorded marginal gains on Tuesday after pairing big early losses as investors appeared uncertain about the prospects of the monetary stimulus program in Europe. The European Central Bank is expected to announce further measures of monetary expansion ...
BCSC panel finds that former broker lied to regulators and acted contrary to the public interest
January 21st, 2015
A British Columbia Securities Commission panel has found that a former broker lied to regulators and acted contrary to the public interest. The panel found that Douglas William Falconer Wood, a B.C. resident and a registered broker during the ...
Russell Investments and Integral, launch Russell FX Network
January 21st, 2015
Russell Investments and Integral launch comprehensive execution service for institutional investors – designed to fix the Fix Integral announced today the launch of Russell FX Network: Novel end-to-end foreign exchange (FX) trading solution leverages Integral’s InvestorFX™ technology Offers superior ...
