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23 Nations Around The World Where Stock Market Crashes Are Already Happening
August 18th, 2015
You can stop waiting for a global financial crisis to happen. The truth is that one is happening right now. All over the world, stock markets are already crashing. Most of these stock market crashes are occurring in nations ...
GBG announces deal with Playtech to embed ID intelligence solutions across full gaming platform
August 18th, 2015
GBG has signed a deal with Playtech, the world’s leading Omni-Channel gaming and financial trading software, services and content supplier, to offer a number of its licensees instant, global ID verification through its cutting-edge IMS platform. The deal will ...
Optimal Payments complete the acquisition of Skrill
August 18th, 2015
Optimal Payments Plc (LSE AIM: OPAY) has issued a press release to inform that has completed the acquisition of Skrill. The Skrill Group is one of Europe’s leading digital payments businesses providing digital wallet solutions and online payment processing ...
Accounting giant EY is buying Seren a digital design consultancy
August 18th, 2015
Business advisory firm EY yesterday announced it is buying Seren, a digital design consultancy based in Silicon Roundabout. Seren chief executive Ben Langdon will continue as boss of what will now be EY-Seren. Seren co-founders Catriona Campbell and Terry ...
Europe: When the Macro Overshadows the Micro
August 17th, 2015
Christian Thimann currently works with the French investment bank AXA while also holding an academic position at the Paris School of Economics. However, from 2008 to 2013 he was Director General and Adviser to the President at the European ...
China, the Hollow Dragon
August 17th, 2015
In terms of profitability and trade-generated wealth, China is a hollow dragon. It is widely assumed that manufacturing (a.k.a. the world’s workshop) is the source of China’s wealth. But how can this be true, given that manufacturing profit margins ...
China’s Yuan Rate Rises for First Time Since Devaluation
August 14th, 2015
The yuan halted a three-day slide after China’s central bank raised its reference rate for the first time since Tuesday’s devaluation and said it will intervene to prevent excessive swings. The onshore spot rate was little changed at 6.4003 ...
Malta-based hedge fund involved in $100 million fraud
August 13th, 2015
US authorities file complaint against Exante Ltd, a Malta-based hedge fund, involved in international securities fraud scheme The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday announced fraud charges against 32 defendants for taking part in a scheme to profit ...
Oil wars: OPEC is winning
August 13th, 2015
OPEC’s strategy to pump like crazy despite collapsing oil prices seems to be finally paying off: The U.S. oil industry is showing cracks. Oil supply from non-OPEC countries is set to slow dramatically next year and slip into its ...
Alibaba Growth Slows as Chinese Economy Weakens; Buyback Planned
August 12th, 2015
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. quarterly sales rose at the slowest pace in at least three years and transaction volumes missed analyst estimates amid a weakening Chinese economy. Shares fell in pre-market trade. Revenue rose 28 percent to 20.2 billion ...
