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‘Bitcoin is dead,’ says prominent fintech exec
April 21st, 2016
Exactly three months ago, a well-known bitcoin developer, Mike Hearn, wrote a post on Medium that rocked the community of people who believe in the future of the digital currency and its technology. Bitcoin, he wrote, has failed. “It has failed ...
Goldman Sachs agreed to pay a $5 billion settlement for its role in 2008 financial crisis
April 14th, 2016
Goldman Sachs agreed to a $5 billion settlement payment Monday, marking yet another Wall Street giant that’s making up for its financial breaches through money — but whose executives have yet to face criminal charges for helping send the ...
Asian shares at four-month highs
April 14th, 2016
Asian stocks rose to their highest levels in more than four months on Thursday and regional currencies weakened led by the Singapore dollar as hopes grew that more central banks will join the city state in easing monetary policy ...
Blockchain won’t kill banks: Brock Pierce
April 12th, 2016
Blockchain – the technology that underpins the cryptocurrency bitcoin – is unlikely to kill banks despite warnings from top industry executives, the chair of a bitcoin non-profit organization told CNBC on Monday. Last week, Andrey Sharov, a vice president ...
Deutsche Bank just lost its prime position in a prominent investment banking league table
April 4th, 2016
Deutsche Bank is suffering — it lost £5.1 billion ($7.4 billion) in 2015, shares tumbled, it is cutting thousands of jobs to shore up costs, and some of its key businesses continue to suffer. So it comes as no surprise that ...
Virtual Currency that is rival to Bitcoin, attracts attention and has soared in value
March 28th, 2016
A new virtual gold rush is underway. Even as Bitcoin, riven by internal divisions, has struggled, a rival virtual currency — known as Ethereum — has soared in value, climbing 1,000 percent over the last three months. Beyond the ...
Big U.S. banks to take on tech rivals with instant payments
March 9th, 2016
Depositors at some of the largest U.S. banks are finally going to get the chance to do something quick and simple: send money to another person’s account instantaneously by mobile phone. The idea has been in the works for ...
U.S. data flow suggests economy regaining steam
March 4th, 2016
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, but the underlying trend continued to point to a strengthening labor market. The labor market optimism was, however, dimmed somewhat by a survey on Thursday showing employment ...
Standard Chartered Drops After First Annual Loss Since 1989
February 24th, 2016
Loan impairments almost double to $4 billion, highest ever CEO Winters says performance to remain `subdued’ in 2016 Bill Winters took more “painful” steps to turn around Standard Chartered Plc as the bank posted its first annual loss since ...
HSBC Posts 4th-Quarter Loss and Comes Under S.E.C. Scrutiny
February 23rd, 2016
HSBC said on Monday that it lost money in the fourth quarter and warned that it was being investigated for hiring candidates with ties to government officials in the Asia-Pacific region. The lender, which is based in Britain but generates ...
