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CySec: Council regulations over Ukraine
September 18th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) informs the Cyprus Investment Firms, Management Companies, Administrative Services Companies and Regulated Markets (‘the Regulated Entities’) about the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union the following: 1. Council Regulation (EU) No.959/2014 of ...
Multinational Companies aim at Low budget consumers
September 18th, 2014
For years, multinational companies had little interest in lower-end consumers, figuring no money was to be made. Now, they are increasingly attractive to all types of industries, from consumer product makers to technology businesses. Google just announced plans to ...
ASIC and MAS sign a Memorandum of Understanding
September 17th, 2014
The Australian regulator, ASIC, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to allow trade repositories licensed in one jurisdiction to provide relevant data to the authority in the other jurisdiction. Through this ...
China Central Bank to Inject $81 Billion Into Top Lenders
September 17th, 2014
China became on Wednesday the latest country to embrace economic stimulus measures, as its central bank reportedly agreed to lend 100 billion renminbi apiece, or $16.2 billion, to each of the country’s five main banks. The decision to inject ...
Economists can’t tell Scots how to vote
September 17th, 2014
Here is the bad news if you haven’t made up your mind whether to vote for Scotland to become independent – economic analysis cannot give you the answer. That is partly because this dismal science is not capable of ...
Microsoft boosts dividend 11 percent, adds new directors
September 17th, 2014
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Tuesday announced the smallest percentage increase in its quarterly dividend since 2009 and appointed new directors to replace two board members who decided not to seek re-election. The increase, 11 percent to 31 cents per ...
New York says Barclays move to toss fraud case should be denied
September 17th, 2014
The New York attorney general on Tuesday rebutted Barclays Plc’s (BARC.L) motion to dismiss the state’s lawsuit alleging fraud in how it ran a private trading platform, calling the arguments in the petition “misguided” and “disingenuous.” New York Attorney ...
Senior BNP Paribas energy traders quit; bank denies downsizing
September 16th, 2014
Two senior BNP Paribas energy traders in New York have left, but the Paris-based bank said on Monday it was not downsizing its U.S. commodity and energy businesses. Keith Shoemaker, managing director of North American natural gas trading, and ...
Tax breaks for small businesses in Canada
September 15th, 2014
The Canadian Government announced that its new Small Business Job Credit will save firms more than CAD550m (USD500.5m) in payroll taxes over the next two years. The credit is worth the difference between premiums paid at the legislated rate ...
Celebrity business leaders using their name to crowd funding websites
September 15th, 2014
The outspoken private equity guru Jon Moulton claims today that the celebrity business leaders may be using crowd funding websites to exploit retail investors. He points out the example of easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, as a name using ...
