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Asia stocks advance before Fed, dollar treads water
March 18th, 2015
Asian stocks shook off a slow start and rose on Wednesday, led by China shares, while the dollar marked time as markets waited for the Federal Reserve‘s policy statement for clues to when U.S. interest rates will rise. Following Asia’s lead, ...
SafeCharge announced Record Financial Results
March 17th, 2015
SafeCharge (AIM: SCH), the global provider of payments services, technologies and risk management solutions for online and mobile businesses, announced its maiden preliminary results for the full year ended 31 December 2014. Financial highlights Revenues up 78% to US$76.9 ...
World’s First Self-Directed, Gold-Backed Currency Mechanism
March 17th, 2015
Global Payout, Inc. (OTC Pink: GOHE), a leading provider of international electronic payment solutions, announced today that it has completed the formation of a joint venture that will launch the world’s first, self-directed, and gold-backed currency hedge mechanism in ...
Commerzbank Announcement Regarding Sanctions and Money Laundering Violations
March 16th, 2015
Following the release that Commerzbank nears $1.4 billion-plus settlement with U.S, Commerzbank issued a press release informing that: Commerzbank has reached settlements with the Department of Justice (“DoJ”), the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the New York ...
FXCM Aims for FastMatch, Lucid Stake Sale to Repay Loan
March 16th, 2015
FXCM Inc., the currency brokerage nearly ruined in January by the Swiss franc’s surge, is seeking to sell its stakes in three trading businesses as it grapples with repaying an emergency loan. The company started the process of selling ...
KCG completes sale of KCG Hotspot
March 16th, 2015
KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) announced the completion of the sale of spot FX trading venue KCG Hotspot to BATS Global Markets. At the close, based on the $365 million purchase price, KCG received cash proceeds representing approximately $225 ...
Investor Group to Buy GE Capital’s Australia, New Zealand Consumer-Lending Unit
March 16th, 2015
Investors include KKR, Deutsche Bank, Värde Partners, in one of biggest deals in Asia-Pacific this year In one of the biggest deals in the Asia-Pacific region so far this year,General Electric Co. agreed to sell the consumer-lending business of GE Capital ...
Citi-linked China broker’s IPO 90 times oversubscribed in $150 bln investor rush
March 13th, 2015
Orient Securities Co‘s $1.6 billion initial public offering, the largest mainland China listing since 2011, was oversubscribed by a factor of over 90 as investors scrambled for a sale boosted by new rules capping IPO prices and soaring industry profits. Under ...
U.S. stocks post biggest gain in 5 weeks
March 13th, 2015
Banking stocks rally after passing Fed’s stress tests U.S. stocks recorded the biggest gain in more than a month as expectations for a rate hike were pushed back following disappointing data on retail sales. Monthly sales at U.S. retailers ...
Spain’s Banco Sabadell in Talks to Buy Britain’s TSB Group
March 12th, 2015
Spain’s Banco de Sabadell SA is in talks to buy British consumer lender TSB Banking Group Plc for 1.7 billion pounds ($2.5 billion), to expand outside an economy battered during Europe’s financial crisis. Sabadell, Spain’s fifth-biggest bank, is proposing ...