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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 ...
China Stocks Fall on Last Day Before Link Start as Brokers Drop
November 14th, 2014
Chinese stocks fell on the last trading day before the start of the trading link between Hong Kong and Shanghai amid concern recent rallies were excessive. China Communications Construction Co. (601800) and ChinaCAMC Engineering Co. led declines for industrial companies with losses of more than 3 ...
Standard Chartered to close MidEast branches
November 13th, 2014
Standard Chartered is set to cull an unspecified number of branches in the Middle East, as part of plans to cut up to 100 locations in emerging markets next year in a bid to save $400 million. The global ...
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 ...
FX Transparency Partners with oneZero to Bring FX TCA to Retail Brokers
November 13th, 2014
FX Transparency (“FXT”), the largest independent provider of FX transaction cost analysis (FX TCA) to the institutional space globally, today announced a partnership with oneZero Financial Systems, a provider of institutional trade-routing software to the Foreign Exchange market, to ...
SWIFT addresses the Know Your Customer’s customer compliance challenge
November 12th, 2014
New ‘SWIFT Profile’ is the first in a series of additional value-added Know Your Customer Services linked to the KYC Registry. SWIFT has announced the development of the SWIFT Profile, a report that provides an overview of an institution’s ...
FCA warning against clone firm
November 12th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Kingdom has issued a warning to alert all recipients that: Kingsley Asset Management (clone of FCA authorised firm) Address: Hyde House, The Hyde, London, NW9 6LH (clone of FCA authorised firm), Unit 1, 47 ...
Japanese stocks soar to seven-year peak on tax-hike delay talk
November 12th, 2014
Japanese stocks scaled seven-year highs on Wednesday, putting the rest of Asia in the shade, buoyed by expectations Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will postpone a planned sales tax hike to avoid damaging a fragile economic recovery. MSCI’s broadest index ...
Moscow Exchange chooses DataSpace as primary data center services provider
November 11th, 2014
Moscow Exchange, Russia”s leading exchange platform for equities, bonds, derivatives, currencies, money market instruments and commodities, announced that it has chosen Moscow-based DataSpace as its primary data center facility and services provider. Following an initial stage in 2015—during which ...
Adco investing up to $7bn in commitment to meet 2017 oil production target
November 11th, 2014
The Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (Adco) is set to invest a further US$5 billion to $7bn to meet its production target of 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of 2017, the company’s chief ...
