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Deutsche Börse to launch Sustainable Finance Initiative
March 21st, 2017
Deutsche Börse will be launching the Sustainable Finance Initiative in Frankfurt. The aim is to establish new interdisciplinary structures for sustainable entrepreneurship along with some 100 of the financial centre’s key participants in order to explore new business areas. ...
Saxo Bank published full year results for 2016; Operating income increased
March 20th, 2017
Saxo Bank Group publishes its 2016 full year results. The operating income for the Group in 2016 was DKK 2.9 billion up from DKK 2.1 billion in 2015. Clients’ collateral deposits grew to new historic highs with an increase ...
IBM Goes Live With First Commercial Blockchains
March 20th, 2017
Tech giant IBM is set to unveil what it’s calling the first “commercial application” of Hyperledger’s open-source Fabric codebase. Previously released in beta and scheduled for official release today, the offering – dubbed “IBM Blockchain” – is formally debuting in front ...
What FBI do to combat Binary Options fraud
March 16th, 2017
Stock options. It’s a pretty common investment term meaning, in general, that one party sells or offers to another party the opportunity to invest by buying a particular stock at an agreed upon price within a certain period of ...
Culture in financial institutions: it’s everywhere and nowhere; FCA Chief Executive
March 16th, 2017
Highlights A firm’s culture emerges in large part from inputs that are its responsibility. It is for firms to ensure that their desired culture is consistent with appropriate conduct outcomes, to identify the drivers of behaviour within the firm ...
Supervisory Authorities around the world warn for unathorised financial services providers
March 16th, 2017
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Ireland (Central Bank of Ireland), Spain (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – CNMV), Luxembourg (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier – CSSF), Hong Kong (Securities and ...
Euronet Worldwide Proposes to Acquire MoneyGram for $15.20 Per Share
March 15th, 2017
Offer Represents an Approximately 15% Premium Over MoneyGram’s Existing Agreement with Ant Financial and a Premium Of Approximately 28% to the Company’s Closing Price on the Day Prior to the Ant Financial Transaction Announcement Clearly Superior Offer Provides Significant ...
Singapore and Japan establish FinTech Cooperation Framework
March 13th, 2017
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan announced the establishment of a Co-operation Framework to enhance FinTech linkages between both countries. 2. The Framework enables MAS and FSA to refer ...
Yahoo General Counsel resigns following investigations for cybersecurity failures
March 8th, 2017
A report prepared for the Securities and Exchange Commission identified $11 million worth of legal costs associated with a mass hack of Yahoo accounts that took place in 2014. Last week, Yahoo confirmed that general counsel and company secretary ...
Apple’s U.K. Suit Against Qualcomm Adds to Global Patent War
March 3rd, 2017
Lawsuit filed Thursday cites claim on patents and designs Apple says Qualcomm unfairly charges royalties for technology Apple Inc. sued Qualcomm Inc. in a U.K. court, adding to lawsuits across the globe in a sprawling battle over patents and ...
