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World Bank: Bitcoin is not a “Ponzi Scheme”
November 19th, 2014
Ponzi scheme: A fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Many of the ...
Ruble Recovers Slightly as Exporters Sell U.S. Dollars for Tax Payments
November 18th, 2014
The ruble strengthened on Tuesday as Russian exporters converted part of their foreign-currency earnings to meet tax payments, but weak oil prices capped gains. At 0830 GMT, the ruble was around 0.8 percent stronger against the dollar at 46.72 ...
RBS embraces crypto-currencies in hackathon challenge
November 17th, 2014
A team from RBS took top honors at the Deloitte Digital #GoneHacking capital markets hackathon on Friday with a trading platform that utilised the Ripple protocol to handle integration with crypto-currencies. RBS built on top of its existing FXMicropay ...
Islamic finance body IIFM launches collateralised murabaha standard
November 17th, 2014
The Bahrain-based International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM) has launched a standard contract template for collateralised murabaha transactions, aiming to boost use of a sorely needed liquidity management tool for Islamic finance institutions. The standard will serve as an alternative to repurchase ...
Yen Falls to 7-Year Low on Election-Stimulus Speculation
November 17th, 2014
The yen strengthened after falling to a seven-year low against the dollar as demand for safer assets revived following a report that showed Japan’s economy unexpectedly sank into a recession. Japan’s currency climbed from the weakest level since October ...
Sydney Yuan Hub Seen Saving Importers 7% in Trading: Currencies
November 17th, 2014
Australian importers are in line for a windfall as speculation grows that Chinese President Xi Jinping will use his visit to the country this week to anoint Sydney as a yuan trading center. The ability to exchange Australian dollars ...
U.S. stocks slip from records; oil falls
November 13th, 2014
U.S. equity prices edged off record highs on Wednesday led by weakness in the financial sector after six global banks were fined a total of $4.3 billion for currency rigging, while the oil market sagged on concerns about a ...
Forex traders plotted strategy in secret chats
November 13th, 2014
Traders of major banks fined $4.3 billion Wednesday for attempted manipulation of foreign exchange markets used electronic chat rooms to plot their moves. Transcript excerpts of conversations released Wednesday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission show traders from U.S. banks Citibank(C) ...
BNP Paribas: The five ways Bitcoin can shake up the financial services world
November 12th, 2014
Bitcoin could become a market-leading technology that will change the way financial systems are engineered says BNP Paribas, in an analysis of the potential disruptive impact of the crypto-currency on banking and asset servicing. In an article for the ...
Exponential and XE.com announce two-year exclusive partnership for mobile web, in-app monetisation
November 12th, 2014
Exponential Interactive, the global provider of advertising intelligence and digital media solutions, today announced an expansion of their exclusive partnership with online foreign currency and rate exchange resource XE.com, enabling XE to monetise their in-app and mobile web inventory ...
