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The Last, Great Run For The U.S. Dollar, The Death Of The Euro And 74 Trillion In Currency Derivatives At Risk
March 12th, 2015
Are we on the verge of an unprecedented global currency crisis? On Tuesday, the euro briefly fell below $1.07 for the first time in almost a dozen years. And the U.S. dollar continues to surge against almost every other ...
U.S. banks’ buybacks, dividends may be no reason for shareholder celebrations
March 11th, 2015
Big U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Citigroup Inc(C.N), are expected to win Federal Reserve backing on Wednesday to buy back more shares and increase their dividends in the coming year, but the approvals may be as much about the institutions’ financial ...
Strongest Dollar in 12 Years Sinks Stocks While Oil Slips
March 11th, 2015
The strongest dollar in nearly 12 years versus the euro and the specter of higher U.S. interest rates fueled a selloff in global equities that sent the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down the most since Jan. 5. Oil ...
Companies Dropping the Ball on Risk, Compliance
March 5th, 2015
Companies are woefully unprepared to deal with the increasingly challenging risk and compliance environment, and the blitz of devastating corporate blunders witnessed in 2014 will recur, and then some, this year, says Forrester Research in a scathing new report. ...
Enforcement action under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (the Act)
March 4th, 2015
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. New Zealand Branch (JPMNZ) The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has today issued a formal warning to JPMNZ under section 80 of the Act. As the supervisor of banks and other reporting entities for ...
Biggest Global Banks Go to Pieces Under Pressure From Regulators
February 27th, 2015
Global regulators have issued dozens of rules aimed at making the biggest banks safer. That’s leading to another result some wanted: making them shrink. HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by market value, said this week it’s considering “extreme ...
$9 Trillion Question Is How Tighter Fed Will Impact the World
February 13th, 2015
When Group of 20 finance ministers this week urged the Federal Reserve to “minimize negative spillovers” from potential interest-rate increases, they omitted a key figure: $9 trillion. That’s the amount owed in dollars by non-bank borrowers outside the U.S., ...
Credit Suisse Returns to Profit, Offers Stock Dividend Option
February 12th, 2015
Credit Suisse Group AG swung to a fourth-quarter profit, announced additional asset reductions and proposed investors choose whether to receive their dividend in shares or cash for 2014 amid pressure to boost capital. Net income amounted to 921 million ...
Oil Companies Draw on Creative Financing to Stay Afloat After Prices Tumble
February 2nd, 2015
North America’s small and mid-sized energy companies are searching for creative ways to stay afloat as investors smell blood in the water from the almost 60 percent fall in the price of oil since June. Oil and natural gas ...
Swiss Stocks Tumble, European Equities Rise After SNB
January 15th, 2015
Stocks in Switzerland tumbled, led by the nation’s exporters, while the Euro Stoxx 50 Index rose, after the Swiss National Bank (SNBN) unexpectedly ended its minimum exchange rate. The Swiss Market Index plummeted 8.7 percent at 2:14 p.m. in ...
