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Citigroup, Barclays Close to Settling Forex Lawsuit With Private Investors
March 18th, 2015
Citigroup Inc. and Barclays PLC are expected to pay as much as $800 million combined to settle a lawsuit with investors who say the banks manipulated foreign-exchange rates, according to people close to the situation. The expected settlements would ...
Credit Suisse Joins FXSpotStream’s Price Aggregation Service, Expanding Liquidity Providers to Ten Global Banks
March 17th, 2015
CREDIT SUISSE BECOMES A LIQUIDITY PROVIDER TO FXSPOTSTREAM’S PRICE AGGREGATION SERVICE, EXPANDING FXSPOTSTREAM’S LIQUIDITY PROVIDERS TO TEN GLOBAL FX BANK FXSpotStream LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LiquidityMatch LLC, today announced that Credit Suisse has agreed to join the ...
Six G14 dealers implement Markit | Genpact KYC Services
March 10th, 2015
Markit | Genpact KYC Services, the joint venture between Markit and Genpact have announced that six G14 dealers are among the global banking institutions implementing its centralised service that streamlines the collection and management of know your customer (KYC) information. ...
Financial Stability Board to Propose Stricter Capital Rules for Global Banks
November 10th, 2014
The Financial Stability Board, a panel made up of central bankers, finance officials and top regulators from the world’s largest economies, plans to announce proposals Monday that would double the amount of money that large banks would be required ...
Hong Kong Introduces RMB Liquidity Measures
November 4th, 2014
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has designated seven banks as Primary Liquidity Providers (PLPs) for the renminbi market (RMB) in Hong Kong and announced the provision of intraday liquidity – two moves that it said would reinforce the ...
Bahrain fund Mumtalakat sets up $1bn bond, sukuk programmes
November 3rd, 2014
Bahraini sovereign fund Mumtalakat has set up separate bond and sukuk issuance programmes in the Irish stock exchange to raise as much as $1 billion, to help refinance maturing debt next year. One of the smaller sovereign wealth funds ...
Bank of England Resists Change to Interest Rate
September 4th, 2014
To raise or not to raise, that is the question — in Britain, at least. On Thursday, nearly a month after two monetary policy makers at the Bank of England broke ranks from the majority and voted to raise ...
Pound Slides to Eight Week Low – Data Disappoint
August 7th, 2014
The pound slid to an eight week versus the dollar on concern the U.K.’s economy is falling short of analysts’ expectations. Sterling weakened against all but two of its 16 major counterparts as data showed Britain’s shop prices dropped ...
Banks face intensified sanctions probes in U.S.
July 10th, 2014
Following BNP Paribas’ record $8.9 billion in penalties for violating U.S. economic sanctions, federal and state authorities are intensifying investigations of other foreign banks over signs of similar infractions. At least six banks in Germany, France, Italy or Japan ...
German Industrial Output Drops
July 7th, 2014
German industrial production plunged in May at its sharpest pace in more than two years, suggesting that Europe’s largest economy struggled to expand in the spring after a robust first quarter. Industrial production dropped 1.8% on a seasonally adjusted ...
