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BNP Is Considering Its Biggest Bank Revamp Since the Crisis
July 30th, 2015
BNP Paribas SA is considering a reorganization of its securities unit that may bring the deepest cost cuts since the financial crisis. France’s largest bank enlisted Oliver Wyman and Boston Consulting Group to work on the revamp, dubbed “CIB ...
Asian shares, dollar up on Fed’s optimism; earnings in focus
July 30th, 2015
Asian stocks tiptoed higher on Thursday and the dollar consolidated recent gains after the U.S. Federal Reserve painted a relatively bright picture of the economy, but a deepening sell-off in commodities kept gains in check. Prospects of stronger U.S. ...
Blockchain-based SETL plans to revolutionise payment and settlement
July 29th, 2015
A new venture plans to create a multi-asset, multi-currency institutional payment and settlements infrastructure based on blockchain technology. Called SETL, the venture is backed by Peter Randall, former chief executive at Chi-X, the multilateral trading facility that is now ...
EBS BrokerTec combines MyTreasury into product portfolio, entering the corporate client segment and Money Markets
July 28th, 2015
EBS BrokerTec leverages the infrastructure and footprint of the established and award-winning MyTreasury platform FX is introduced on MyTreasury and will allow corporate treasurers to trade FX and Money Market Funds on a single screen EBS BrokerTec, ICAP’s market-leading ...
Asian shares skid as weak China PMI revives demand concerns
July 24th, 2015
Asian equities stumbled on Friday after a survey showed China’s manufacturing activity crumbled to 15-month lows, rekindling concerns for the region’s exports as the world’s second-largest economy struggles to arrest a broad downturn. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares ...
Commodities Collapsed Just Before The Last Stock Market Crash – So Guess What Is Happening Right Now?
July 23rd, 2015
If we were going to see a stock market crash in the United States in the fall of 2015 (to use a hypothetical example), we would expect to see commodity prices begin to crash a few months ahead of ...
Piper Jaffray Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire BMO Capital Markets GKST
July 22nd, 2015
Piper Jaffray Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire BMO Capital Markets GKST, Bolstering Fixed Income Sales, Trading & Analytics Platform Piper Jaffray Companies (NYSE: PJC), a leading investment bank and asset management firm, today announced that it has reached a definitive ...
JPMorgan $12.5 Billion Short in Fed Systemic-Risk Charges
July 21st, 2015
JPMorgan Chase & Co. still has a shortfall of as much as $12.5 billion in meeting capital rules approved by the Federal Reserve on Monday. The Fed assigned capital charges totaling more than $200 billion for eight of the ...
Barclays to pay $800,000 fine for U.S. data reporting errors
July 17th, 2015
Wall Street’s self-funded watchdog fined a unit of Barclays PLC (BARC.L) $800,000 (512,377 pounds) for violations related to how the bank reported stock trades over a more than two-year period, hampering the regulator’s ability to properly monitor the market. ...
Linx-Networks teams with VoxSmart to strengthen mobile call recording service
July 16th, 2015
Specialist City trading floor systems integrator, Linx-Networks, is to work with market-leading mobile call recording experts, VoxSmart, to provide trading hubs and solutions that meet the tough new European-wide trading regulations called MiFID II. The new regulations, which become ...