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EU blackmails Serbia to impose sanctions on Russia
November 21st, 2014
Serbia must impose sanctions against Russia if it wants to join the European Union, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn said. “Serbia legally obliged, within the scope of negotiations about accession to the EU, to gradually align ...
Obama unveils U.S. immigration reform, setting up fight with Republicans
November 21st, 2014
President Barack Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Thursday, easing the threat of deportation for some 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with Republicans who vow to fight his moves. In a White ...
Switzerland To Join Multilateral Convention On AEOI
November 20th, 2014
The Swiss Federal Council has approved plans for the nation to join the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) on the Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information, describing it as a logical step, after it agreed in principle in May ...
ASIC takes civil action against LM founder and former directors
November 20th, 2014
ASIC has started legal action against LM Investment Management Ltd (LMIM) founder, Peter Charles Drake, and former directors, seeking financial penalties and banning orders following the collapse of the Gold Coast-based fund manager. ASIC’s civil penalty proceedings in the ...
RBNZ releases Brighter Money designs
November 20th, 2014
New Zealand’s banknotes are getting brighter and better, with the RBNZ today unveiling more vibrant and secure banknote designs which will progressively enter circulation later next year. The Bank today also launched a Brightermoney.co.nz website which contains basic information about the ...
Islamic finance body AAOIFI to revise four standards, eyes sukuk
November 20th, 2014
The Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) will revise four of its standards in the first half of next year while expanding its guidance for Islamic bonds, the industry body said. Earlier this month, AAOIFI issued ...
World Bank: Bitcoin is not a “Ponzi Scheme”
November 19th, 2014
Ponzi scheme: A fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Many of the ...
CySec: acquisition of Administrative Services Providers (ASP) licence
November 18th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following firms have successfully obtained the CySec licence to operate as Administrative Services Provider (ASP): St James Management Services G.I. Ltd Consulco Limited. ...
Home Depot profit beats estimates as U.S. job market improves
November 18th, 2014
Home Depot Inc, the world’s No.1 home improvement chain, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit as an improving job market encouraged Americans to spend more on renovations. The company reaffirmed its 2014 sales growth forecast of about 4.8 percent and ...
Weidmann: “Government bond purchases harbour major moral hazard”
November 18th, 2014
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has spoken out against possible plans to expand the Eurosystem’s balance sheet by way of government bond purchases on the part of the euro-area central banks. “Such purchases might create new incentives to run up debt, ...
