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EY sends five technology start-up entrepreneurs to Monaco; Who are these?
April 4th, 2016
The five will receive mentoring and coaching at EY World Entrepreneur Of The YearTM in Monaco, where they will network with leading entrepreneurs and business people from around the world The participants are from the start-up hotbeds of Tallinn, London, ...
Blackberry squeezed as sales slump
April 4th, 2016
BlackBerry sales fell by almost $200m in the three months to the end of February in a bigger-than-expected slide that sent shares down almost 8%. The Canadian company said smartphone sales had been below projections in the quarter. Chief ...
Why Japan’s plan to raise the number of lawyers it hasn’t worked out
April 4th, 2016
Japan is struggling with an unlikely problem: Its people aren’t litigious enough. Fifteen years ago, the nation kicked off a plan to double the number of lawyers. Officials thought they could breathe dynamism into society by mimicking the Western ...
PAYFORT integrates SADAD Account via FORT to further open up the world of ecommerce for Saudi consumers
April 4th, 2016
Next generation payment gateway, ‘FORT’, now allows merchants to offer even more online payment options in Saudi Arabia PAYFORT, the Arab world’s leading online payment service provider, and SADAD Payment System (SADAD) today announced the arrival of SADAD Service ...
HSBC comes up short in money laundering vigilance, U.S. says
April 4th, 2016
HSBC Holdings Plc has not done enough to thwart money laundering, despite making significant progress since reaching a landmark 2012 anti-money-laundering settlement with U.S. prosecutors, a federal monitor has found. The monitor “remains unable to certify that the bank’s ...
ISE Announces First Implementation of a Securities Exchange on Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Environment
April 4th, 2016
The International Securities Exchange (ISE) is the first regulated securities exchange to build and operate cloud-based disaster recovery infrastructure as part of disaster preparedness requirements established by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity (Reg ...
Saudi Arabia and UAE government bank deposits fall
March 31st, 2016
Government bank deposits continued to fall in Saudi Arabia and the UAE last month, as the low oil price hits the balance sheets of lenders in both countries. In Saudi Arabia, government deposits fell 6.6 per cent in February, ...
PwC Report: Blockchain a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity for Financial Services
March 30th, 2016
Blockchain marks the next “jump” in business process/optimization technology, according to a newly-released PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report on fintech. The report, “Blurred lines: How FinTech is shaping Financial Services,” compares blockchain to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software that allowed entities and functions within a ...
How Many Tech Startups Are Empty Shells?
March 30th, 2016
How many startups are empty shells filled with glitzy PR designed to appeal to VC newbies? It’s widely accepted that most tech startups will fail. Perhaps the core business proposition didn’t pan out, or the execution was flawed, or ...
Financial Policy Committee statement from its policy meeting, 23 March 2016
March 29th, 2016
1. The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) assesses the outlook for financial stability by identifying the risks faced by the financial system and weighing them against the resilience of the system. In doing so, its aim is to ...
