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IT spending in Indian financial services to hit $7.8 billion in 2017 – Gartner
October 31st, 2016
IT spending by banking and securities firms in India will reach $7.8 billion dollars in 2017, an increase of 8.6 percent from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. This forecast provides total enterprise IT spending for internal spending and spending ...
New York’s bitcoin hub dreams fade with licensing backlog
October 31st, 2016
New York’s financial regulator had sights set on becoming a global hub for innovations like bitcoin when it adopted trailblazing virtual currency rules last year. But the state lost that momentum when the agency’s chief left, putting a licensing ...
Market Volatility Has Currency Traders Abandoning a Tool to Stop Losses
October 30th, 2016
Some currency investors, worried that events such as the pound’s recent collapse could become more common, are abandoning an automated trading mechanism that was supposed to protect them from losses after big market swings. The trading mechanism, known as ...
Riksbank keeps low repo rate for longer
October 28th, 2016
Low repo rate for longer, Executive Board ready to extend government bond purchases in December The upturn in the Swedish economy is continuing, but the Riksbank assesses that it will take longer before inflation attains the target of 2 ...
Gobal ATM owner and operator launches in Spain
October 27th, 2016
Cardtronics (Nasdaq:CATM), the world’s largest ATM owner / operator that provides services to approximately 200,000 cash machines globally, announced it has launched its ATM business in Spain through separate agreements it has signed with EURO 6000 and SuperCOR (El ...
This is the darkest hour in global currency market that haunts currency traders
October 27th, 2016
In the global currency market, the darkest hour comes just as dawn is breaking in Asia and traders in Sydney are sipping their first flat white. Between the New York close and the start of trading in Tokyo, foreign-exchange ...
Monte Paschi sees €4.8 billion loss in 2016; cuts thousands of jobs
October 25th, 2016
Italy’s third-largest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, has resolved to write down bad loans, lay off a tenth of its staff and raise €5 billion. The planned overhaul could shape the fortunes of the country’s wider banking sector. ...
Switzerland adopts strategic directions to boost its Financial sector
October 25th, 2016
During its meeting on 19 October 2016, the Federal Council adopted a report and laid the foundations for a future-oriented financial market policy. The focus is on five strategic directions that should enable the Swiss financial centre to boost ...
European Property Investors shift in opportunities in smaller economies
October 24th, 2016
The European commercial real-estate market is shifting, with the hottest cities cooling off as investors’ interest in other locations grows. Real-estate markets throughout Europe saw investors pile in following the 2008 financial crisis. With the European Central Bank and ...
Blockchain applied for the first time in a global transaction
October 24th, 2016
Blockchain, the technology behind digital currency bitcoin and now being used to simplify secure financial transactions, has been applied for the first time in a deal facilitated by an Australian bank to sell cotton to China. The Commonwealth Bank ...
