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Biggest Ever Saudi Overhaul Targets $100 Billion of Revenue
April 4th, 2016
Levies on expats, energy, luxury goods, sugary drinks seen Plan is to boost non-oil revenue to balance budget by 2020 The biggest economic shake-up since the founding of Saudi Arabia would accelerate subsidy cuts and impose more levies, a ...
Bank of America Makes Online Payments Seamless With Visa Checkout
April 4th, 2016
Streamlines Access and Simplifies Enrollment Through Bank of America’s Online Banking In the latest step at simplifying consumer payments, Bank of America announced today that it will pre-select customers’ eligible Visa cards for enrollment in Visa Checkout directly from ...
Iranian Miniskirts, Bags of Cash Raise Doubts Over Controls at HSBC
March 30th, 2016
Monitor finds lapses in bank’s efforts to prevent money laundering and evasion of sanctions following 2012 settlement with Justice Department The monitor overseeing HSBC’s compliance with a landmark anti-money-laundering settlement has uncovered a range of potential lapses including loans ...
Egypt targets higher growth, deficit reduction in new government program
March 29th, 2016
Egypt promised tough action to restore growth on Sunday with a government program that aimed to reduce the budget deficit while protecting the poor as public anger mounts over a deteriorating economy. Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, reading out a ...
Oil to rebound to around $50 by year end – Saxo Bank
March 28th, 2016
Several factors are helping oil prices gain ground The past two months of oil price volatility have taken its toll on the financial markets, with the main culprits for this dramatic price fall being excess production, concerns about a ...
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 ...
Standard Chartered goes global with ‘bank on an iPad’
March 8th, 2016
Standard Chartered is to equip staff worldwide with an iPad-based sales and service tool that “brings the bank” to the client. Retail Workbench, initially launched in Korea in 2014, enables sales staff to open an account for a client ...
Saxo Bank and CME Group sign content sharing agreement
March 3rd, 2016
Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, and CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today signed a content-sharing agreement rendering CME Group’s educational materials available to Saxo Bank’s global client base. CME Group’s Futures Institute ...
EBRD supports international trade in Greece through National Bank of Greece
March 2nd, 2016
Facility will help National Bank of Greece scale up trade finance The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting the expansion of international trade with a facility to National Bank of Greece under the EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP). The facility ...
RBS Plummets as Bank Pushes Out Dividend After Annual Losses
February 26th, 2016
Bank says payouts likely later than first quarter of 2017 Misconduct charges drove 1.98 billion-pound annual loss Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc said it would take longer than originally planned to resume shareholder payouts after reporting its eighth ...
