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CBI downgrades forecast for UK economic growth
February 11th, 2016
Employers’ organisation reduces forecast for GDP increases in 2016 and 2017 to 2.3% and 2.1% respectively Britain’s leading employers’ organisation, the Confederation of British Industry, has warned that the growth prospects for the UK economy have dimmed since George ...
EY announces its EY Synapse Analytics-as-a-Service platform to accelerate delivery of analytics-driven insights to businesses globally
February 10th, 2016
EY has announced its global Analytics-as-a-Service (AaaS) platform, EY Synapse, to accelerate the delivery of analytics-driven insights that businesses can use to compete and operate more effectively. The EY Synapse platform expands EY’s analytics managed services capabilities with a ...
Dow, S&P 500 rally with energy; Alphabet drops
February 4th, 2016
U.S. stocks staged a late-day rally on Wednesday as an 8-percent jump in oil prices lifted beaten-down energy shares and financials rebounded. The Nasdaq stayed weaker but ended well off the day’s lows. Oil prices LCOc1 CLc1 snapped a ...
Reserve Bank of Australia decided to leave the cash rate unchanged
February 2nd, 2016
At its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.0 per cent. The Reserve Bank of Australia has issued a press release to inform on its decision on interest rate. According to the statement: ...
J.P. Morgan to Pay $1.42 Billion to Settle Most Lehman Claims
January 26th, 2016
Deal doesn’t resolve all of failed investment bank’s claims against J.P. Morgan J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay the remnants of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. $1.42 billion in cash to settle most of the failed investment bank’s ...
Asia rises after cold spell lifts oil, dollar stands tall
January 25th, 2016
Asian stocks on Monday moved further away from four-year lows struck last week, as a cold spell in parts of the northern hemisphere pushed oil prices higher and relieved some of the bearish pressure on global markets. World equities ...
R3 brings eleven major global financial institutions together on a cloud based distributed ledger
January 21st, 2016
Financial technology innovation company, R3 CEV, today announced the successful completion of a ground breaking distributed ledger experiment involving eleven of the world’s largest financial institutions. R3 and consortium member banks Barclays, BMO Financial Group, Credit Suisse, Commonwealth Bank of ...
RBS partners with New Change to deliver independent TCA FX tool
January 19th, 2016
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (“RBS”) has chosen New Change Currency Consultants Limited (“NCFX”) to deliver an independent way for large corporate and financial institution customers to measure “slippage” and run a portfolio analysis of their currencies trades ...
China Said to Put Reserve Rule on Offshore Bank Yuan Funds
January 18th, 2016
Officials extending effort to counter speculation against yuan Premier Li underscores `no basis’ for continued yuan slide China is stepping up efforts to counter speculative bets against the nation’s currency, through imposing reserve requirements on yuan deposits held on ...
Oil price plunge: Risks and rewards
January 15th, 2016
Just over four years ago, the United States and Europe sanctioned the sale of Iranian oil in an effort to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. Oil was trading at $110 per barrel, and Obama administration officials fretted about how to ...