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Apple & China UnionPay to Bring Apple Pay to China
December 18th, 2015
Apple® and China UnionPay today announced a partnership to bring Apple Pay®, which transforms mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay, to China. China UnionPay cardholders will be able to easily add their bank cards ...
KPMG UK announces 2.6% growth in revenues to £1.96bn
December 18th, 2015
The firm invested almost £200m in acquisitions, property and staff training Tax and audit were the firm’s highest earning services The firm, its partners and employees paid £786m in taxes KPMG, the professional services firm providing audit, tax and ...
LSEG Pre-Close Trading Update
December 17th, 2015
Unless otherwise stated, the following commentary refers to non-financial KPIs for the eleven months ended 30 November 2015 and, where appropriate, to the corresponding period last year. Good performance across each of the Group businesses In Information Services: – ...
Blockchain consortium R3 opens its doors to exchanges and clearing houses in 2016
December 17th, 2015
Blockchain standards builder R3 has opened its doors to non-bank financial services firms including funds, exchanges, clearing houses, standards bodies and infrastructure companies, from early in 2016. R3 also announced the addition of another 12 banks, taking the total ...
Global stocks, dollar climb as Fed lifts off
December 17th, 2015
Asian stock markets jumped on Thursday as investors chose to take an historic hike in U.S. interest rates as a mark of confidence in the world’s largest economy, lifting the dollar and piling on the pain for oil prices. ...
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ goes live on FXSpotStream as the 12th Liquidity Provider
December 16th, 2015
Volumes on the Service increases 25% through November FXSpotStream LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LiquidityMatch LLC, today announced that Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ is now live as a liquidity providing bank to FXSpotStream’s price aggregation service and client ...
Here’s how the Fed actually raises interest rates
December 16th, 2015
For the Fed, voting to hike interest rates is the easy part. The tough work begins as U.S. central bank officials implement the right maneuvers to ensure rates go where they want. Essentially, the heavy lifting gets assigned to ...
Investoo.com launches cTrader platform tutorials for traders
December 15th, 2015
Investoo.com have just launched an in depth course which serves as an introduction to the powerful cTrader platform. This course is aimed at new traders as well as experienced traders looking at alternative platforms to better suit their needs. The main ...
China’s ICBC to open clearing bank in Russia to boost yuan-ruble trade
December 15th, 2015
The world’s largest bank by assets and market cap, China’s ICBC, is planning to open a clearing bank in Russia for trade settlements in yuan and rubles. “ICBC, as the biggest bank dealing with CNY business in ...
Greece: Market concerned about gov’t stability
December 14th, 2015
The government and the country’s international creditors have reached an agreement on the second list of 13 milestones that will lead to the disbursement of the sub-tranche of 1 billion euros by the end of the year. In addition, ...
