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What impact will new European law have on the buy-to-let market?
February 19th, 2016
At the moment buy-to-let lending is not regulated. But new rules from 21 March 2016 mean that around one in ten of this type of mortgage lending will come under the regulatory control of the Financial Conduct Authority. What ...
Can technology bring lawyers into the 21st Century?
February 17th, 2016
The legal profession is perhaps more associated with bulging files of papers, odd clothing and arcane procedures than with technological innovation. But several start-ups are trying to give this most conservative – and sometimes vexing – of professions a ...
Bloomberg BNA Introduces BEPS Tracker
February 16th, 2016
Bloomberg BNA released its new BEPS Tracker, enabling international tax professionals to quickly determine the status of a country’s response to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) action plan. With the BEPS ...
BGC Partners Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Financial Results
February 11th, 2016
The Company Generated Record Quarterly Post-tax Distributable Earnings Declares Quarterly Dividend of 14 Cents Global brokerage company BGC Partners, Inc. has issued an announcement to make publish its financial results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2015. According the comapny, ...
Day Of Reckoning: The Collapse Of The Too Big To Fail Banks In Europe Is Here
February 11th, 2016
There is so much chaos going on that I don’t even know where to start. For a very long time I have been warning my readers that a major banking collapse was coming to Europe, and now it is ...
Greek Prime Minister Tsipras Meets With Iranian Leaders in Tehran
February 9th, 2016
Greece hopes to become an economic link between Iran and EU now that sanctions are lifted Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday became the first Western leader to visit Iran since the lifting of trade sanctions against the ...
Iran-France oil contract to take effect Feb 16
February 9th, 2016
France’s energy giant Total will start importing 160,000 barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil from Iran later this month, Iran’s petroleum minister says. Bijan Zangeneh said an agreement, signed last month in Paris between National Iranian Oil Company ...
Frankfurt becomes Bundesbank’s largest gold storage location
February 8th, 2016
The Bundesbank successfully continued its transfers of gold last year. In 2015, 210 tonnes of gold were transferred to Frankfurt am Main from storage locations abroad: around 110 tonnes from Paris and just under 100 tonnes from New York. “With approximately 1,403 tonnes ...
Gazprom: No reason for gas price war in Europe
February 5th, 2016
The Russian gas monopoly sees no need to cut prices as liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States attempts to gain market share in Europe. “There is no necessity for us to open a price war… There are ...
Bank of England maintains Bank Rate at 0.5%
February 4th, 2016
Bank of England maintains Bank Rate at 0.5% and the size of the Asset Purchase Programme at £375 billion The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target and in a ...
