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Zulutrade fined by CFTC
September 10th, 2014
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing and simultaneous settlement of charges against Zulutrade, Inc., a CFTC-registered Introducing Broker located in Piraeus, Greece, for failure to diligently supervise activities relating to its business as a CFTC ...
Is bigger better for ASEAN in a mega-regional world?
September 10th, 2014
Big-block trade agreements or ‘mega-regionals’, revolving around one or more major powers, are the latest trend in trade policy negotiations. ASEAN is involved in two: the American-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Chinese-led Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). But ...
GSK China consumer healthcare unit linked to DOJ probe in 2012
September 9th, 2014
A U.S. anti-bribery probe into GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) touched on the firm’s Chinese consumer healthcare business in 2012, internal documents show, suggesting the drugmaker’s compliance problems in China could go wider than previously revealed. GSK confirmed it had conducted ...
BVI Receives 2014 Offshore Estate Planning Gong
September 9th, 2014
The British Virgin Islands has been awarded the 2014 Offshore Excellence Award in Estate Planning by publishers Acquisition International. Receiving the award on behalf of the territory, Executive Director of the BVI International Financial Center, Sylvia Moses, said the ...
Africa likely to experience oil and gas boom
September 9th, 2014
A study released by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) concluded that Africa had the potential to experience a major mid-term energy boom. The survey forecast demand for oil on the continent would “rise significantly” over the next two decades, driven by larger ...
Dollar sweeps higher, Japan shares shy from peaks
September 9th, 2014
The U.S. dollar held on to broad-based gains in Asia on Tuesday in a boon for shares of Japanese exporters but a burden for oil, gold and stocks in the energy majors. As the dollar finally broke to a ...
Telefonica trials to take AT&T home security technology overseas
September 9th, 2014
AT&T Inc (T.N) on Monday said Spain’s Telefonica SA (TEF.MC) will license its home security technology for limited trials in Europe as the U.S. carrier hopes it has found a new way to profit from its nascent connected-home business. ...
Brokers Battle Deutsche Bank Over Selling In-House Products
September 9th, 2014
Since the market collapse of 2008, scrutiny has intensified on the way large banks and securities firms treat their brokerage customers, particularly when it comes to steering them into the firms’ own products. One possibility raised in the 2010 ...
Investigation Reveals Surprising Way Foreign Governments Buy Influence In D.C.
September 9th, 2014
An investigation by The New York Times has found that several prominent Washington, D.C. think tanks have regularly taken donations from foreign entities in exchange for using their influence over U.S. policy decisions. The damning report, published in the ...
Ex-SAC Capital trader gets 9-year sentence
September 9th, 2014
Former SAC Capital portfolio manager Mathew Martoma was sentenced to a nine-year prison term Monday for his role in what federal prosecutors called the most profitable insider-trading scheme in U.S. history. Martoma, a former financial lieutenant to billionaire hedge ...
