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Greek government searches for funds amid fresh speculation about third bailout
March 3rd, 2015
The government on Monday scrambled to find ways to raise much-needed funding amid renewed speculation about a third bailout for Greece. Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis met with his deputies and other officials to discuss ways of covering the country’s ...
LedgerX Selects Ancoa to provide platform for monitoring bitcoin options trading
March 2nd, 2015
Ancoa has issued a press release informing that: LedgerX Selects Ancoa to Deliver First Real-Time Market Surveillance Capability for Bitcoin Options Trading Ancoa and LedgerX today announced that LedgerX has selected Ancoa to provide the first real-time market and ...
Investors Are Mistakenly Assured By Two Shaky Generalities
March 2nd, 2015
Investors are complacent, even confident, regarding the prospects for 2015. That is in spite of the market being at valuation levels higher than all but one previous market peak of the last 100 years, while the economy appears to ...
The Bank of Russia announcement on ruble liquidity provision through FX swaps
March 2nd, 2015
The Bank of Russia issued a press release informing: On the maximum allotment amount of ruble liquidity provision through FX swaps The Bank of Russia decided to preserve the daily maximum allotment amount of ruble liquidity provision through FX ...
International and regional bodies that combat money laundering (part B)
March 2nd, 2015
Introduction Money laundering is a global phenomenon that thrives parasitically on the world’s financial markets. It ignores national boundaries in much the same way that the financial market place does. It has been accepted that this problem requires both ...
China’s shares rise after PBOC rate cut
March 2nd, 2015
Shares in China were higher on Monday after the mainland’s central bank unexpectedly cut interest rates at the weekend for the second time since November. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up 0.36% at 24,911.91 points in mid-morning trade. Meanwhile, ...
European Banks’ Reciprocity Draws Scrutiny
March 2nd, 2015
When Deutsche Bank AG hired 25 banks last summer to help it raise about $9 billion of new capital, it made some unusual selections. In addition to a handful of Wall Street stalwarts, three Italian banks made the cut. ...
Biggest Global Banks Go to Pieces Under Pressure From Regulators
February 27th, 2015
Global regulators have issued dozens of rules aimed at making the biggest banks safer. That’s leading to another result some wanted: making them shrink. HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by market value, said this week it’s considering “extreme ...
Germany’s Finance Minister Calls on Lawmakers to Back Greek Bailout Extension
February 27th, 2015
Wolfgang Schäuble spoke to German lawmakers ahead of a parliamentary vote Germany’s finance minister called on lawmakers to back a four-month extension of Greece’s bailout, arguing that voting against the bill would cause Germany’s future “great damage.” “Greece needs much ...
FMA warns public to be wary of misleading advertising promoting “risk-free, money-back investments”
February 27th, 2015
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) is warning people to beware of a company offering a risk-free, high-return investment programme. The company trades as Eco Investments Group and the FMA warns anyone dealing with them to exercise extreme caution before obtaining any ...
