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CME Group Appoints Paul Houston as Global Head of FX
April 4th, 2016
CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the appointment of Paul Houston as Executive Director, Global Head of FX. Reporting to Sean Tully, Senior Managing Director, Financial and OTC Products, CME Group, Houston will be responsible for ...
The Rats Keep Pressing The Bar: Two Amazing Stories, One Inevitable Result
March 17th, 2016
Anyone who doubts that the global financial system has run out of (good new) ideas has only to track the recent words and deeds of central bankers and mainstream economists: Slightly-negative interest rates didn’t lead people to borrow more? ...
Oil prices edge up as confidence rises that market has bottomed
March 3rd, 2016
Oil prices edged higher on Thursday as sentiment spread that a 20-month-long market rout is coming to an end as production slows amid strong demand. U.S. crude futures were trading at $34.76 per barrel at 0540 GMT, up 10 ...
Gold outlook improves
February 12th, 2016
There is a conflation of three related events that materially alter the prospects in favour of a higher gold price. The change in the outlook for US interest rates has probably put an end to the dollar’s four-year bull ...
Greece Reaches Tsipras Anniversary Facing Pension Battle
January 25th, 2016
Bonds sink ahead of tough negotiations over pension reform Government wants speedy end to bailout review with creditors Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is marking the one-year anniversary of his election on Monday as Greece finds itself once again with ...
PwC agreed to pay $55 million to settle claims
January 7th, 2016
PwC in $55 million settlement with Madoff feeder fund investors PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed to pay $55 million to settle claims it failed to audit properly the books of Fairfield Greenwich Group, the biggest operator of “feeder funds” for now-imprisoned swindler ...
Four London-based traders are being investigated by DoJ for possible manipulation
January 7th, 2016
DoJ investigates bond traders over market-rigging “What is Bond: A name for debt which is issued for a specified period of time. Depending the terms of the Bond, the issuer owes the holder/s a debt, and is obliged to pay ...
J.P. Morgan to Increase Deposit Rates for Some Big Clients in January
December 29th, 2015
Bank is among first of big peers to boost deposit rates after Fed decision on interest rates J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. will raise deposit rates for some of its biggest clients in January, according to a person familiar with ...
LSEG acquires XTF
December 22nd, 2015
XTF is a provider of U.S. ETF data, analytics and ratings Acquisition adds to LSEG’s leading offering in the ETF space Growing demand for greater research tools to track $3 trillion global ETF market London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) confirms ...
Citic Securities Chinese brokers missing as Beijing crackdown intensifies
December 8th, 2015
The scandal at Citic has already scuppered a proposed takeover of Russell Investments Two investment bankers from Citic Securities, China’s biggest broker, have gone missing, sparking fresh concerns about a state-led crackdown in the wake of this summer’s stock-market ...
