Search Results for: foreign exchange
ASIC shuts down unlicensed foreign exchange trading
July 4th, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following its strict financial regulatory policy has commenced action in the NSW Supreme Court to stop Vault Market Pty Ltd and its sole director, Mr MD Anamul Amin, of Wiley Park, New South ...
High-Frequency Fight Starts in Foreign Exchange
April 17th, 2014
Foreign-exchange dealers say they have the solution to the high-frequency trades eroding banks’ profits across financial markets. A currency-dealing platform known as ParFX, established in 2011 by firms from Deutsche Bank AG to Citigroup Inc., was approached last month ...
SEC: State Street Misled Custody Clients About Prices for Foreign Currency Exchange Trades
July 27th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that State Street Bank and Trust Company has agreed to pay $382.4 million in a global settlement for misleading mutual funds and other custody clients by applying hidden markups to foreign currency ...
Foreign-Exchange Traders Staff Up for Brexit
June 21st, 2016
Many banks have slashed currencies-trading staff; now they are girding for an anticipated surge of activity stemming from this week’s U.K. vote Scott Schultz won’t be making any social plans for this Thursday evening. The co-head of foreign-exchange trading at ...
China Foreign-Exchange Reserves Rise for First Time in Five Months
April 8th, 2016
Increase comes as the yuan has staged a recovery in recent weeks China’s foreign-currency reserves rose during March, the first increase in five months, a sign Beijing may have partially succeeded in stemming heavy capital outflows that destabilized global ...
Egypt is weighing tougher regulations on foreign-exchange dealers
March 21st, 2016
Authorities targeting black market to end dollar shortage Central bank devalued the pound and raised rates last week Egypt’s central bank is weighing tougher regulations on foreign-exchange dealers, part of a broader effort to crack down on the black ...
CFTC Issues Orders of Foreign Board of Trade Registration to Permit Direct Access for ICE Futures Canada, Inc. and Montréal Exchange Inc.
August 27th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) announced today that it has issued Orders of Registration to ICE Futures Canada, Inc. (ICEFC), a Foreign Board of Trade located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and Montréal Exchange Inc. (MX), a Foreign ...
Dominant currencies and the limits of exchange rate flexibility
August 3rd, 2020
Faced with an unprecedented shock of collapsing global demand and commodity prices, capital outflows, major supply chain disruptions and a generalized drop in global trade, many emerging markets and developing economies’ (EMDEs) currencies have weakened sharply. Will these currency ...
Money and the theory of exchange
October 23rd, 2019
Evidence mounts that the global credit cycle has turned towards its perennial crisis stage. This time, the gathering forces appear to be on a scale greater than any in living memory and therefore the inflation of all major ...
As US piles on sanctions, foreign investors pour more money into Russia
February 14th, 2019
Russian companies’ stocks attracted the most foreign investment in 5 years, adding nearly $576 million in January, the Central Bank of Russia reported. Investors also actively poured money into Russian bonds despite US sanctions. The ruble-based Moscow stock exchange ...
