India Signs Up For FATCA To Block Black Money
July 20th, 2015
The Indian government’s crackdown on black money is continuing with the signing of a Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) agreement with the USA. Both countries have agreed to swap financial information about bank accounts and investments controlled by ...
Visa: Bitcoin Has a Future in Payments
July 10th, 2015
Large existing payments companies are “lowering the drawbridges” and working more openly with new players in the space, according to a Visa executive. Jonathan Vaux, executive director of new digital payments and strategy at Visa Europe, was speaking at WIRED Money, held ...
Is Bitcoin Unsustainable, and How Can It Be Made Sustainable?
July 9th, 2015
“Bitcoin Is Unsustainable,” claims the title of a provocative essay by Motherboardcontributor Christopher Malmo that has spurred considerable debate. Malmo’s central thesis is that Bitcoin uses way too much electricity. The essay opens with a future scenario that, in view ...
Oil prices fall as China share crisis worsens, traders hedge for further drops
July 8th, 2015
Oil futures fell again on Wednesday as worries over the Greek debt crisis and China’s stock market turmoil outweighed an expected U.S. inventory drop, with traders anticipating further drops. Chinaoil prices’s stocks tanked further on Wednesday in a deepening ...
Rift Emerges as Europe Gears Up for New Talks on Greece Bailout
July 7th, 2015
Germany continued to maintain a hard line with Athens on Monday, just a day after Greek voters decisively rejected a bailout deal from its creditors. But some European countries showed a willingness to soften the push for austerity that ...
Goldman: “Greece Will Remain In Euro Even If It Votes No”, And How Markets Will React
July 3rd, 2015
The time to negotiate the Greek referendum this Sunday has come and gone and at this point, one can only sit and wait as the vote results start trickling in on Sunday evening. And, as Goldman’s Huw Pill prudently ...
Agreement with RBS confirms BNP Paribas’ commitment to Cash Management and Trade Finance in Europe and internationally
July 2nd, 2015
BNP Paribas has been selected by RBS to act as the ‘referral bank’ for its Cash Management and Trade Finance clients affected by the latter’s decision earlier this year to focus its transaction services business on its home market ...
Winners and losers emerge from fragmented FX swap rules
June 30th, 2015
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has frequently warned that market fragmentation will continue and market transparency will be damaged as US and European regulators fail to reconcile their FX rule sets. Disharmony is most evident in relation ...
Asia stocks bounce back but Greece uncertainty still looms
June 30th, 2015
Asian stock markets bounced back Tuesday, recouping some of the previous day’s sharp losses, but investors remained worried the crisis in Greece could spread to other financially weak countries. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.4 percent to 20,189.02 after ...
Regulatory Fine
June 26th, 2015
Global Regulators Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) Fines Imposed for Year 2015 and 2016
