Search Results for: currency market
Gold remains money
September 18th, 2015
We think we know that gold is no longer money, because Keynesians and monetarists insist it is so. Furthermore, it has been replaced by government currencies, which we use to buy and sell, do our accounts and pay our ...
China central bank orders banks to tighten supervision of clients’ forex deals: sources
September 18th, 2015
The People’s Bank of China has ordered banks to closely scrutinize clients’ foreign exchange transactions to prevent illicit cross-border currency arbitrage, sources with the direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Friday. China’s yuan is not freely convertible ...
Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity, According to U.S. Regulator
September 18th, 2015
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission makes its mark. Virtual money is officially a commodity, just like crude oil or wheat. So says the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which on Thursday announced it had filed and settled charges against a Bitcoin exchange for ...
Asian shares edge up, dollar soft as Fed stands pat and eyes China
September 18th, 2015
Asian shares rose modestly on Friday on relief the Federal Reserve held off on raising interest rates but gains were capped by renewed concerns about the health of the global economy, in particular China. The dollar was on the ...
Forex Investors See Regulation as a Top Issue
September 17th, 2015
Tightening rules could make currency trading more difficult, expensive Global regulators are tightening rules around trading in financial markets after a series of scandals, which could make currency trading more difficult and expensive, said industry participants at a foreign-exchange ...
Asian stocks climb amid Fed rate wait, but China lags
September 17th, 2015
Asian stocks advanced on Thursday, as investors eyed gains in oil prices and the positive lead from Wall Street. However, trade volumes could stay light as investors await the Federal Reserve‘s policy decision. The Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ...
Saxo Bank uses Interoute’s advanced network to support its multi-asset trading platform
September 16th, 2015
Award winning trading platform updates currency prices 10 times every second and manages 11 billion dollars of transactions daily. Interoute, owner-operator of one of Europe’s largest networks and a global cloud services platform, has announced that Saxo Bank, a specialist ...
UBS reveals its interest in Sidechains as well as Ethereum
September 15th, 2015
There is an air of confidence about UBS at this time concerning the bank’s exploration of distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. Recently, UBS demonstrated how a bond could be automated on a blockchain, the shared ledger system similar ...
EY reports 2015 global revenues up by 11.6%
September 15th, 2015
Fastest growth since 2008 with revenues up by 11.6% in local currency Growth across all four service lines and four geographic areas Emerging market practices’ revenue up by 12.3% Developed markets’ growth led by the US, UK, Germany, Australia ...
Traders’ Phones Are Becoming a Zone of Total Surveillance
September 14th, 2015
At large banks, regulatory requirements and new technology change how conversations are conducted Wall Street has a message for its traders: Watch what you say. At large banks in the U.S. and Europe, traders’ everyday activities are being recorded ...
