Goldman Sachs Sees Big Potential for Fintech in Brazil
May 16th, 2017
Brazil is experiencing a wave of growth in financial technology that will most likely eat into the market share of the country’s huge and long untouchable banks, a new report from Goldman Sachs says. Entitled “Fintech Brazil’s Moment,” the ...
Singapore FinTech Festival to return this year
May 16th, 2017
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced the second edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival, to be held in Singapore from 13 to 17 November 2017. Organised in partnership with The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) and ...
Global Brokerage, Inc. announces First Quarter 2017 results
May 16th, 2017
First Quarter 2017 Highlights: U.S. GAAP net revenues from continuing operations of $45.9 million U.S. GAAP net loss attributable to Global Brokerage, Inc. from continuing operations of $24.5 million or $3.99 per diluted share. U.S. GAAP net loss from ...
Private equity fundraising in Europe hits 8-year high
May 15th, 2017
Private equity fundraising across Europe hit its highest level last year since 2008 at €74.5bn, a 37 per cent year-on-year increase, as investors hunted for value in a low interest rate environment, a new report shows. Invest Europe’s 2016 ...
NEX Group released Full-year results for the year ended 31 March 2017
May 15th, 2017
NEX Group plc (“NEX”) (NXG.L), a financial technology company at the centre of the global markets, announces today its audited results for the year ended 31 March 2017. Continuing Year ended 31 March 2017 £m Year ended 31 March ...
Interactive Brokers to sell Options Market-Making Division
May 15th, 2017
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. signed a definitive agreement with Two Sigma Securities, LLC (“TSS”) to divest its U.S. options-market-making business of Timber Hill. Two Sigma is the market-making affiliate of Two Sigma Investments, LP. The financial terms of the deal ...
Euro to US Dollar: Forecast for next five days
May 15th, 2017
Euro to US Dollar looks like it is cycling lower after the sharp drop from the 1.1000 highs. We still see a risk of a breakdown to fill the gap left after the jump higher following the first round ...
Bulgarian Customer Support Officer
May 15th, 2017
Overview: Trade Finance is in our DNA. For more than 10 years, XTrade has helped global traders with access to the world’s largest and most liquid market. By offering the most innovative trading tools, hiring the best trading educators, ...
Update on Brexit
May 14th, 2017
This article looks at the background to Brexit negotiations and concludes that Britain is negotiating from a position of strength, while the EU is increasingly in a position of financial difficulty. Not only will the European Commission be forced ...
How money is created
May 13th, 2017
How money is created Since the Eurosystem launched its accommodative non-standard monetary policy measures, the central bank reserves of commercial banks in the euro area have gone up sharply, more than seven-fold within a period of not quite ten ...
