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FX Benchmark Overhaul
July 16th, 2014
Global regulators published details of their plans to overhaul foreign-exchange benchmarks in response to allegations that traders colluded to manipulate rates in the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market. The Financial Stability Board proposed changes to the way the WM/Reuters rates ...
ayondo Opens Office in Singapore
July 11th, 2014
The ayondo group announced that it has opened an office in Singapore, the ayondo Asia PTE Ltd, following its strategist expansion worldwide. The holding company, which operated as an investment group under the name Next Generation Finance until April ...
BoE Rate at 0.5%
July 10th, 2014
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting today voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of purchased assets financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £375 ...
Post-Crash Economics
June 19th, 2014
In last month’s European Parliament election, euroskeptic and extremist parties won 25% of the popular vote, with the biggest gains chalked up in France, the United Kingdom, and Greece. These results were widely, and correctly, interpreted as showing the ...
ECB extends US dollar liquidity-providing operations
June 17th, 2014
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB), in cooperation with the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank, has decided to continue to offer one-week US dollar liquidity-providing operations after 31 July ...
Fed Prepares to Keep Super-Sized Balance Sheet for Years to Come
June 11th, 2014
Federal Reserve officials, concerned that selling bonds from their $4.3 trillion portfolio could crush the U.S. recovery, are preparing to keep their balance sheet close to record levels for years. Central bankers are stepping back from a three-year-old strategy ...
Draghi tries to Keep Rate-Cut Option Even After June
June 4th, 2014
Mario Draghi is likely to signal that any interest-rate cut this week won’t necessarily be the final one, according to two euro-area central bank officials. The European Central Bank president will probably reiterate his commitment to keep borrowing costs ...
Levine on Wall Street: Wise Rabbits and Philosophical Regulators
May 28th, 2014
Paul McCulley is back. Pimco’s new chief economist is Paul McCulley, back for his third stint at the firm that he previously left in 1992, returned to in 1999, and left again in 2010. So he knows what the ...
Euro hits three-month low after German data surprise
May 23rd, 2014
Asian shares hit one-year highs on Friday and bond yields were on track to notch up a broad-based rise on the week, but European markets softened after a closely watched measure of German business confidence came in weaker than ...
German regulator BaFin finds currency manipulation evidence
May 21st, 2014
BaFin, the German regulator, said it had found concrete evidence that traders attempted to manipulate the global currency market, making it the first financial watchdog to confirm that suspicions of wrongdoing have clear grounds. Raimund Röseler, the head of ...
