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Banks face new legal action over forex manipulation
July 15th, 2015
After fines totalling many billions of pounds from UK and US regulators, a new threat is about to hit the major banks found guilty of manipulating the foreign exchange market. US lawyers are preparing multi-million-pound legal action – to ...
Goldman Sachs Asset Management to acquire leading institutional impact investing firm Imprint Capital
July 14th, 2015
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (“GSAM”) has issued a press release to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Imprint Capital (“Imprint”), a leading institutional impact investing firm and innovator in developing investment solutions that generate measurable environmental, social, ...
Bats Plans Block-Trading Service to Prepare for Dark-Pool Rules
July 14th, 2015
Bats Chi-X Europe will unveil a block-trading initiative within months as markets prepare for European Union rules that will restrict dark-pool trading. “We fully intend to facilitate large-in-scale trading and we will be unveiling highly competitive initiatives in the ...
Mideast digital economy to hit $30b by 2018
July 13th, 2015
The Middle East business landscape is quickly adopting latest technologies to capture competitive advantages arising from leveraging the Internet of Things and leveraging mobile technology in their core businesses. An SAP and Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report indicates that ...
Unregulated advisers beat law firms in Google rankings
July 13th, 2015
Solicitor firms are missing out on vital marketing opportunities – and losing ground to the unregulated sector – by not establishing themselves at the top of Google searches, research has found. Legal Services Board chief executive Richard Moriarty (pictured) ...
Oil prices tumble as Iran deal nears
July 13th, 2015
Oil prices dropped Monday as Iran and global powers appeared close to a historic deal that would loosen sanctions in exchange for curbs on Tehran’s nuclear program. Sanctions have long reined in Iran’s oil production and exports, and the ...
Is Bitcoin Unsustainable, and How Can It Be Made Sustainable?
July 9th, 2015
“Bitcoin Is Unsustainable,” claims the title of a provocative essay by Motherboardcontributor Christopher Malmo that has spurred considerable debate. Malmo’s central thesis is that Bitcoin uses way too much electricity. The essay opens with a future scenario that, in view ...
MONEX: Notice Regarding Acquisition of Own Shares
July 9th, 2015
Notice Regarding Acquisition of Own Shares (Under the provision of its Articles of Incorporation in accordance with Article 165, Paragraph 2 of the Companies Act) Monex Group, Inc. (“the Company”) announces that its Board of Directors has resolved that ...
Greek debt crisis: Where do other eurozone countries stand?
July 9th, 2015
Eurozone leaders are back in Brussels to discuss how to deal with the growing debt crisis in Greece. Greek voters overwhelmingly rejected the terms of an international bailout on Sunday. Although some countries are keen to strike a compromise, ...
Greece and its Slow Growth Problem
July 8th, 2015
I knew that Greece has not traditionally been the economic dynamo behind growth in the EU economy. I had not quite realized how far the Greek economy has lagged behind over the last several decades. Here’s a figure from ...
