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Clearpool launches Iris to improve equity trading efficiency
January 8th, 2015
Clearpool Group today announced the roll-out of Iris, technology designed to transform how orders are handled electronically to improve liquidity interaction and fill rates. Iris aggregates orders to elevate their prioritization in a venue’s execution queue, giving clients trading ...
Massive fraud link to major mortgage broker
January 7th, 2015
The Melbourne man at the centre of an alleged $110 million mortgage fraud holds a senior position in one of the country’s largest mortgage brokerage networks, raising concerns that the true scale of the potential financial losses is yet to be ...
HMRC: “transitional period” for businesses affected by new EU VAT laws
January 7th, 2015
HMRC has announced that there will be a “transitional period” for small businesses affected by new VAT rules. The new Europe wide legislation, which came into force on 1 January 2015, affects businesses that sell digital services, such as ...
Execs of Credit Suisse’s China partner summoned
January 7th, 2015
The parent of Founder Securities, Credit Suisse AG‘s brokerage venture partner in China, said four of its executives were ordered to cooperate with an official investigation, stirring concerns as a dispute heats up with a major shareholder. Neither Founder ...
Bank of England disarray in the face of financial crisis
January 7th, 2015
The full extent of the Bank of England’s emergency action to prevent the collapse of the banking system is revealed on Wednesday as it releases previously secret documents detailing its frantic day to day efforts to prop up high ...
29-Year-Old Russian Hedge Fund Founder Disappears With All The Firm’s Money
January 5th, 2015
The value of the ruble isn’t the only thing that is vanishing in Russia. A Moscow hedge fund chief executive has disappeared, along with all the money in the firm’s accounts. That’s according to a stunning feature in The ...
Oil hits five and a half year low under $55 on supply glut
January 5th, 2015
Oil prices dropped to fresh 5-1/2-year lows on Monday on worries about a surplus of global supplies and lackluster demand. Russia’s oil output hit a post-Soviet high last year, averaging 10.58 million barrels per day (bpd), up 0.7 percent ...
Emerging global cyberlaw trends in 2014
January 5th, 2015
2014 was the year when dark web started emerging, primarily due to the iCloud hacking of celebrities’ pictures Globally, the year 2014 was a year that was dedicated to cybercrimes and hacking. In fact, cybercrime as a phenomenon loomed ...
Fidessa’s Smart Order Routing selected by Okasan Securities
January 5th, 2015
Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) announced today that Okasan Securities has selected Fidessa’s SOR (Smart Order Routing) system to enable PTS (Proprietary Trading System) trading as of early 2015. Okasan Securities is already a client of Fidessa for both ...
PayPal: Cyber fraud offences
January 3rd, 2015
A 22-year old man connected with the notorious Lizard Squad group of hackers has been arrested by Thames Valley police on suspicion of a series of PayPal-related fraud offences. The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit says the arrest ...
