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Lawyers are being replaced by machines that read
January 27th, 2017
Lawyers are the professionals everyone loves to loathe. Jokes about attorneys abound, and Shakespeare’s line from Henry VI remains a cultural favorite: ”The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Soon, that dream may come true, and ...
MoneyGram Agrees to Merge with Ant Financial
January 27th, 2017
MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI), a global provider of innovative money transfer services, and Ant Financial Services Group, one of the world’s leading digital financial services providers and parent company of Alipay, a global mobile payment platform, today announced that they ...
Charterprime Announces Q4 2016 Trading Statistics
January 27th, 2017
Charterprime is an international financial group specialising in the brokerage of financial products and foreign exchange. In an effort to increase stakeholder engagement and transparency, Charterprime has committed to releasing regular performance statistics for its business henceforth and has ...
Yen Extends Slump on BOJ Move, Asian Stocks Advance: Market Wrap
January 27th, 2017
Mexican peso slides for second day, gold’s decline contines Greenback still set for monthly drop despite recent gains The yen extended its biggest decline in a week and Japanese bonds rose as the nation’s central bank stepped in to ...
SFC reprimands and fines North Sea Securities Limited $700,000
January 26th, 2017
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded North Sea Securities Limited (North Sea) and fined it $700,000 for failing to put in place proper controls to monitor and supervise employee dealings, in breach of the Code of Conduct ...
Interactive Brokers Japan fined JPY 20 million
January 26th, 2017
Japan Exchange Regulation (hereinafter “JPX-R”) has inspected Interactive Brokers Securities Japan,Inc. (hereinafter “the Company”) and deemed that there was insufficient trading management to prevent acceptance of orders, etc., which could potentially result in the creation of manipulative quotations. Tokyo ...
Asian Stocks Extend Rally After Dow Tops 20,000: Markets Wrap
January 26th, 2017
MSCI Asia Pacific Index trading at highest since July 2015 Gold extends decline while bonds and dollar remain steady A global equities rally gathered speed as Asian stocks climbed to the highest level since July 2015 after the Dow ...
There’s a mega drive to make this Indian City a FinTech Hub
January 25th, 2017
‘Plan to create a world-class technology ecosystem to encourage startups’ A mega drive is being launched to attract investments in digital banking, data analytics, Blockchain and cyber security to make Visakhapatnam a prominent FinTech hub of India. A FinTech ...
Tesco faces fresh legal challenge over accounting scandal
January 25th, 2017
Supermarket chain Tesco is facing a fresh lawsuit for damages from investors over its 2014 accounting irregularities scandal. The legal action is being pursued by Manning & Napier, with the Financial Times newspaper reporting that the US investment house ...
Society report: solicitors ready for ‘automation revolution’
January 25th, 2017
Solicitors agree that legal business is brimming with innovators – but most are content for others to go first before deploying new technology. Yet as the ‘pyramid law firm of the past’ recedes into history, practitioners who fail to ...