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ECB published overview of economic and monetary developments
March 25th, 2017
Overview At its monetary policy meeting on 9 March 2017, the Governing Council concluded that a very substantial degree of monetary accommodation is still needed for underlying inflation pressures to build up and support headline inflation in the medium ...
Euronext launches a new thematic Index
March 24th, 2017
Euronext and Vigeo Eiris today launched the CAC 40® Governance Index, a thematic index that rates companies in the Paris market’s benchmark CAC 40 index on their corporate governance performance. The CAC 40® Governance Index takes the constituent stocks ...
European Commission published consultation on FinTech
March 24th, 2017
Consumer Financial Services Action Plan: Better products and more choice for European consumers The European Commission is today presenting an Action Plan that sets out ways to provide European consumers with greater choice and better access to financial services ...
ESMA reports about Central Securities Depositary Regulation
March 24th, 2017
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued final reports on two sets of guidelines regarding the implementation of the Central Securities Depositary Regulation (CSDR). The CSDR harmonises the settlement of securities by providing a set of common ...
The Russian “Laundromat” exposed; how the complex money laundering scheme worked
March 23rd, 2017
Three years after the “Laundromat” was exposed as a criminal financial vehicle to move vast sums of money out of Russia, journalists now know how the complex scheme worked – including who ended up with the $20.8 billion and ...
Can state spending ever be cut?
March 22nd, 2017
President Trump was elected on several promises, including one that he would fund tax cuts by cutting public spending. Cynics might note that his first action was to increase spending on the military by $54bn, the equivalent of six ...
UBS to face trial in France over tax fraud charges
March 21st, 2017
Swiss banking giant UBS will go on trial in France for establishing a wide-ranging tax fraud scheme worth billions of euros, according to legal sources. UBS will be charged with illegal banking practices and dissimulating tax fraud, the sources ...
ASIC: Evaluating distributed ledger technology
March 20th, 2017
ASIC has today released an information sheet on distributed ledger technology (DLT), also known as blockchain technology. Read Information Sheet 219 Evaluating distributed ledger technology (INFO 219). In the last few years, there has been intense interest in DLT ...
These are the top 10 Law schools in America
March 20th, 2017
Last week, US News & World Report released its annual ranking of top law schools in America. Yale University is ranked at first place. Yale Law is the champion for the last 23 years that US News has rated ...
Multinational Bank forecast arabica coffee prices to rise
March 20th, 2017
Rabobank forecast rising arabica coffee prices, as Brazilian production falls 13% in the 2017-18 season. Following a Brazilian crop tour, Rabobank forecast the next Brazilian coffee crop at 49.2m bags, down from 54.0m bags in the 2016-17 year. Arabica ...
