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Greek debt crisis: MPs prepare for second vote on bailout reforms
July 22nd, 2015
The Greek parliament is to vote later on a second set of reforms needed to secure its bailout deal. If MPs approve the financial and judicial reforms, Greece will be able to press ahead with negotiations for an €86 ...
Forex Broker FXCM plans 1-for-10 reverse stock split
July 22nd, 2015
Foreign-exchange broker FXCM Inc. plans to cut by a factor of 10 the number of its shares outstanding, a move the company said is key to its effort to remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Shareholders would ...
Investors Flee Commodities
July 21st, 2015
The prices of raw materials from oil and gold to copper, cotton and sugar tumbled, underscoring an increasing aversion to commodity investments as the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. ...
Investors turn to absolute return as volatility spikes
July 21st, 2015
Choppy markets have meant a surge in interest for defensive funds VOLATILITY in bond and equity markets has picked up lately, and risks seem to be cropping up in every part of the globe. Now investors are turning to ...
Mainland China needs to let brokers play a bigger role in market
July 20th, 2015
While putting all shares in central clearing may be the mainland regulator’s idea of a “safe” market structure, the system creates a wide gap with the outside world and erodes the role stockbrokers can play. In Hong Kong, all ...
China’s unravelling: Will it devalue the yuan next?
July 17th, 2015
China is grasping at policy measures to shore up its economy CHINA could be gearing up to join the global currency wars by devaluing the renminbi. So far this year more than 30 central banks from all over the ...
AMF France warns the public for unauthorised investments firms
July 16th, 2015
The Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) and the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) are publishing a new updated list of websites and entities offering investments on the unregulated foreign exchange (Forex) market in France, without authorisation ...
Deloitte Trials Blockchain Tech for Client Auditing
July 16th, 2015
Professional services firm Deloitte has revealed it is trialling blockchain technology to automate client auditing and crowdsource its consulting efforts, among other applications. With the announcement, Deloitte – one of the world’s ‘Big Four’ audit firms – becomes the ...
Could China Be the Next Japan?
July 16th, 2015
China today is very similar to Japan in 1990, and the world’s No. 2 economy should be wary of repeating the policy mistakes of Japan It’s a tale of two economies. On the same day that China surprised with ...
Africa Mobile Money Market Worth $14.27 Billion by 2020
July 15th, 2015
According to a new market research report, “Africa Mobile Money Market by Transaction mode (NFC/Smart Cards, Direct Mobile Billing, Mobile Web/WAP Payments, SMS, STK/USSD, and others), by Nature of Payment, by Location, by Type of Purchase, and by Country ...
