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Twitter to Revamp Leadership Under CEO Jack Dorsey
January 25th, 2016
Alex Roetter, head of engineering, and Kevin Weil, product chief, are among the four executives who are leaving Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Jack Dorsey is revamping his top ranks as he tries to find ways to revive the social media company and earn ...
How are banks actually going to use blockchains and smart contracts?
January 25th, 2016
Banks are now officially collaborating on connected distributed ledgers, something of a milestone in the blockchain narrative. But how are they actually going to use computational blockchains that can operate that well-known term of art – “smart contracts”? Dr ...
Out of the mouths of babes…
January 22nd, 2016
Parents will tell you the most difficult questions to answer sometimes come from their children. Here are some apparently innocent questions to ask of economists, journalists, financial commentators and central bankers, which are designed to expose the contradictions in ...
New Bank Start-up Unit launched by the financial regulators
January 22nd, 2016
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and FCA have launched the New Bank Start-up Unit. The Unit is a joint initiative from the UK’s financial regulators giving information and support to newly authorised banks and those thinking of becoming a ...
KPMG Audit plc’s audit of HBOS plc
January 22nd, 2016
The Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Conduct Committee has reviewed the full report from the PRA and FCA into the failure of HBOS plc. and has asked the FRC’s Executive Counsel to undertake preliminary enquiries under the Accountancy Scheme, the ...
MasterCard on blockchain: ‘We don’t want to be blindsided’
January 22nd, 2016
Blockchain — the technology that underpins bitcoin — is one of the most exciting areas of technology at the moment. It has the potential to strip out huge amounts of admin costs and companies around the globe are signing ...
Traiana and Trax form business alliance to offer repo matching service
January 22nd, 2016
Traiana, a leading provider of pre-trade risk and post-trade processing solutions and Trax, a leading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services, today announce that they have entered into a business alliance to offer the ...
Could Greece Positively Surprise World Economy in 2016?
January 21st, 2016
Premier sees investors returning to Greece in recent weeks Asset-sales fund announces Piraeus Port stake sale to Cosco Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said investor trust in the Greek economy is returning as the country’s asset-sales fund announced the privatization ...
UAE eyes new clean energy generation target by 2030
January 21st, 2016
The UAE is looking to increase its target for power generation from clean energy to 30 per cent by 2030, the energy minister said yesterday. “What we know is that at least 25 per cent is going ...
IASB issues narrow-scope amendments to IAS 12 Income Taxes
January 21st, 2016
The International Accounting Standards Board® (the Board) today issued amendments to IAS 12 Income Taxes. The amendments, Recognition of Deferred Tax Assets for Unrealised Losses (Amendments to IAS 12), clarify how to account for deferred tax assets related to debt instruments measured at ...
