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Global M&A at seven-year high as big corporate deals return
June 30th, 2014
Investor support for large acquisitions and a desire to trump rivals in consolidating markets have led chief executives to strike big transactions so far in 2014, raising year-to-date global deal volumes to their highest level in seven years. Corporate ...
Ghana’s First Hedge Fund Planned by Ex-Exchange Regulator
June 26th, 2014
Tikowrie Capital Ltd., a Ghanaian money manager started by a former regulator, plans to establish the West African country’s first hedge fund. “The appetite of investors in the country has grown over the years,” Tikowrie Executive Director Maxwell Gidi ...
US approves some exports of light oil
June 26th, 2014
As the oil industry pushes the Obama administration to lift a longstanding ban on the export of crude oil, the Commerce Department has granted two Texas companies permits to export a light, processed form of oil, according to people ...
FASB Finalizes New Rule on Stock Compensation
June 25th, 2014
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has finalized new accounting requirements around stock compensation intended to resolve differences in how companies treat awards that have specific performance targets attached. FASB’s Emerging Issues Task Force studied the issue and determined companies ...
Hedge-Fund Hack Part of Bigger Siege: Cyber-Experts
June 23rd, 2014
The attack on a U.S. hedge fund’s network, which a cybersecurity contractor said last week disrupted the firm’s high-speed trading and stole its data, is but one among many. That is the assessment of more than a half-dozen computer ...
Commodities market overview
June 20th, 2014
A summary of trading in key commodities markets overseas: ENERGY Oil prices soared on escalating violence in Iraq, as government troops recaptured a major refinery and the US said it was sending in military advisers to train Iraqi forces. ...
Regulator Investigates Controls at Deutsche Bank Commodities Unit
June 20th, 2014
Germany’s top financial regulator recently investigated internal controls at Deutsche Bank AG’s commodities unit, according to a person familiar with the probe. The regulator, BaFin, sent a letter to the bank outlining its findings in April, this person said. ...
Emerging Markets: What Has Changed
June 20th, 2014
1) Russia continues to liberalize the currency and move to an inflation targeting regime 2) Political risk is rising in Poland 3) South Africa came under renewed rating downgrade pressures 4) The Chinese yuan’s one-way depreciating bet appears to ...
Bank of America instructs Shearman & Sterling disputes head for forex lawsuit
June 19th, 2014
Shearman & Sterling has landed a major advisory role for Bank of America on a sprawling US lawsuit over alleged rates rigging in the foreign exchange market. A filing earlier this month shows a New York-based group of Shearman ...
AMF Updates List of Unauthorised Binary Options Providers
June 18th, 2014
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), warns the investors by publishing a new updated list of websites offering binary options trading, for which no authorised investment services provider could be clearly identified. The AMF is once again warning retail ...