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Oil Companies Draw on Creative Financing to Stay Afloat After Prices Tumble
February 2nd, 2015
North America’s small and mid-sized energy companies are searching for creative ways to stay afloat as investors smell blood in the water from the almost 60 percent fall in the price of oil since June. Oil and natural gas ...
SMEs bear brunt of UK’s £10bn Hidden Tax Burden
January 30th, 2015
The UK tax system is costing businesses up to £10bn in hidden costs a year, with SMEs bearing the majority of this burden according to new research by AAT. Ahead of HMRC’s end-of-the-month self-assessment deadline, AAT has researched the ...
LedgerX intends to list and clear physically-settled options on digital currencies
January 30th, 2015
LedgerX is an institutional trading and clearing platform that has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to operate a swap execution facility (SEF) and derivatives clearing organization (DCO). Upon approval, LedgerX intends to list ...
TD Ameritrade Institutional introduces new Platform
January 30th, 2015
TD Ameritrade issued a press release informing for the introduce of Veo One, the Next Generation Advisor Technology Platform. Building on the successful foundation of Veo Open AccessSM and its integration with 85 technology firms, TD Ameritrade Institutional1 is ...
PwC: Creating winning culture essential if financial services firms are to flourish
January 29th, 2015
Cultural change in the financial services sector globally is destined to fail if players continue to focus on it primarily as a compliance requirement, according to a paper just published by PwC. The paper, ‘Forging a winning culture’, which ...
Markets mixed after Fed statement
January 29th, 2015
US stocks fell sharply on Wednesday after Federal Reserve reiterated its plans to hike interest rates sometime in 2015. The Federal Reserve boosted its assessment of US economy as it described the expansion as “solid”, an improvement over the ...
IG Group launches Sunday Trading offering
January 29th, 2015
First platform to offer Sunday trading Clients able to trade select equity, binary and bitcoin markets IG Group, a global leader in online trading, is the first platform to launch a Sunday trading offering, allowing clients to trade a ...
KCG announces sale of KCG Hotspot to BATS Global Markets
January 29th, 2015
KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) issued an announcement that: It has entered into a definitive agreement to sell KCG’s spot FX trading venue, KCG Hotspot, to BATS Global Markets. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second ...
Deutsche Bank reports fourth quarter 2014 net income
January 29th, 2015
Deutsche Bank reports fourth quarter 2014 net income of EUR 441 million Group results Fourth quarter 2014 results Income before income taxes (IBIT) of EUR 253 million Core Bank IBIT, which excludes the Non-Core Operations Unit (NCOU), of EUR ...
Standard Chartered CEO Is Under Pressure From Shareholders, Regulators, Staff
January 29th, 2015
Bank’s Top Shareholders Privately Push for New Leadership Amid Investor, Regulatory Anxiety Hundreds of Standard Chartered PLC’s most senior executives gathered earlier this month on Singapore’s Sentosa island to address the global bank’s dimming fortunes. From a lectern at ...
