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The ECB and John Law
March 21st, 2016
Last week, the ECB extended its monetary madness, pushing deposit rates further into negative figures. It is extending quantitative easing from sovereign debt into non-financial investment grade bonds, while increasing the pace of acquisition to €80bn per month. The ...
Montréal Exchange to Launch Eris-based Canadian Dollar Interest Rate Swap Futures
March 18th, 2016
Montréal Exchange (MX), Canada’s leading derivatives exchange, today announced that it will expand its interest rate derivatives offering with the launch of Canadian Dollar Interest Rate Swap Futures based on the Eris MethodologyTM. These new swap futures contracts will ...
Oil prices jump to $40
March 18th, 2016
Crude oil is back from the dead — for now at least. Oil prices jumped to $40 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since early December. The milestone marks a dramatic 54% spike in the span of ...
The Rats Keep Pressing The Bar: Two Amazing Stories, One Inevitable Result
March 17th, 2016
Anyone who doubts that the global financial system has run out of (good new) ideas has only to track the recent words and deeds of central bankers and mainstream economists: Slightly-negative interest rates didn’t lead people to borrow more? ...
SNB:Monetary policy remains expansionary
March 17th, 2016
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is maintaining its expansionary monetary policy. The target range for the three-month Libor remains at between –1.25% and –0.25%, and interest on sight deposits at the SNB is unchanged at –0.75%. The Swiss franc ...
Why Latin American economies are turning to bitcoin
March 17th, 2016
The economic prospects for Latin America in 2016 are grim. With political instability in some of the region’s largest economies, as well as a general slump in prices in oil and other commodities, businesses and consumers are facing a depression and, in the ...
BNP Paribas Cash Managament launches first-ever service designed to assist online marketplaces with their compliance
March 17th, 2016
This is a ‘first’ in the banking world: BNP Paribas has launched a new service aimed at e-commerce sites and other online marketplaces, which will enable them to bring their financial transactions into full compliance with the regulations. BNP ...
Mizuho to face U.S. lawsuit over Mt Gox bitcoin losses
March 16th, 2016
A U.S. lawsuit accusing Japan’s Mizuho Bank of concealing problems at the now-bankrupt Tokyo-based Mt Gox bitcoin exchange can move forward, a federal judge in Chicago has ruled. U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman rejected on Monday the bank’s argument ...
Asian Stocks Fall as Dollar Strengthens Before Fed; Oil Rebounds
March 16th, 2016
Yen weakens as Kuroda says negative rate can be cut further Crude climbs toward $37 a barrel before U.S. investories data Asian stocks fell and the dollar strengthened against most major currencies before a Federal Reserve policy review on ...
Interview with The Guardian
March 15th, 2016
Interview with Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, conducted by Shiv Malik on 18 February 2016 and published on 11 March 2016 What does the ECB’s own research on incomes and younger generations say? During the great recession, the young ...
