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Financing IMF Transactions Quarterly Report
May 13th, 2015
IMF credit is extended to its members in both foreign exchange and SDRs. Credit extended in foreign exchange is financed from the quota resources made available to the IMF by members, and essentially involves a transfer of foreign exchange ...
CRYEX announces new institutional FX and digital currency marketplace and clearing house
May 8th, 2015
10 M USD funding led by White Star Capital and Northzone CRYEX today announced the filing of an application with the Swedish Finansinspektionen (SFSA) to become a regulated clearing organization and create a member-only marketplace with clearing and settlement ...
Riksbank purchases government bonds for a further SEK 40-50 billion
April 29th, 2015
Riksbank purchases government bonds for a further SEK 40-50 billion, lowers the repo-rate path significantly and holds the repo rate at −0.25 per cent The expansionary monetary policy is having a positive impact on the Swedish economy and inflation ...
Central Banks Will Be Busy This Week, But Their Ability To Boost Global Business Is In Doubt
April 27th, 2015
Most big central banks have been easing policy since the beginning of the year and are set to do more, but it still isn’t clear whether that new activism, which has pushed stock markets to record highs, will help ...
Nokia Agrees to $16.6 Billion Takeover of Alcatel-Lucent
April 15th, 2015
The Finnish telecommunications company Nokia said Wednesday that it had agreed to an all-share takeover of Alcatel-Lucent that valued its French rival at 15.6 billion euros, or about $16.6 billion. The combined company is expected to become the world’s second-largest telecom equipment manufacturer ...
Should Individual Tax Returns Be Public Information?
March 30th, 2015
My guess is that if you asked Americans if their income taxes should be public information, the answers would mostly run the spectrum from “absolutely not” to “hell, no.” But the idea that tax returns should be confidential and ...
Norway Signals Reduction After Unexpectedly Holding Rate
March 19th, 2015
Norway’s central bank unexpectedly left interest rates unchanged and signaled another cut to protect the economy against a plunge in oil prices. The krone surged. The overnight deposit rate was kept at 1.25 percent, the Oslo-based bank said. The ...
Russia Deposit Fight Sees Foreign Banks Seeking New Clients
March 19th, 2015
Oksana Semenikhina, a customer of Citigroup Inc.’s Russian unit for the past decade, got an offer from the lender this year that she couldn’t pass up. “They offered to open a ruble term deposit for me at 9 percent ...
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 ...
International and regional bodies that combat money laundering (part B)
March 2nd, 2015
Introduction Money laundering is a global phenomenon that thrives parasitically on the world’s financial markets. It ignores national boundaries in much the same way that the financial market place does. It has been accepted that this problem requires both ...
