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Dutch online discount broker buys FinTech Firm in a €12.5 million deal
March 20th, 2017
BinckBank acquires FinTech firm Pritle BinckBank responds to increasing customer demand with robo-advisory acquisition,accelerating execution of growth strategy. With the acquisition of the business activities of Pritle, BinckBank expands its digital wealth management offering and provides an impulse toward ...
IBM Goes Live With First Commercial Blockchains
March 20th, 2017
Tech giant IBM is set to unveil what it’s calling the first “commercial application” of Hyperledger’s open-source Fabric codebase. Previously released in beta and scheduled for official release today, the offering – dubbed “IBM Blockchain” – is formally debuting in front ...
Dollar Slides Fourth Day, Asian Stocks Are Mixed: Markets Wrap
March 20th, 2017
Australia 10-year bond yield slides for fifth day in six New Zealand shares tumble, yen maintains last week’s strength A gauge of the U.S. dollar headed for its longest losing streak since Donald Trump won the election, while stocks ...
PwC’s Takeover of ‘The World’s Best Tax Law Firm’
March 17th, 2017
In a move that illustrates how the professional services market is changing, about half of General Electric’s tax department — once described as as ‘the world’s best tax law firm’ — is moving to PwC in April. Under the deal, about ...
Asia Emerging-Market Stocks Gain While Topix Slips: Markets Wrap
March 17th, 2017
Dollar poised for biggest weekly loss in more than a month Indonesian shares reach record; Treasuries move higher An equities rally spurred by the Federal Reserve’s outlook found some life in Asian emerging markets, even amid a slump in ...
SFC reprimands and fines DBS Vickers (Hong Kong) Limited $2 million
March 16th, 2017
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded DBS Vickers (Hong Kong) Limited (DBSVHK) and fined it $2 million for regulatory breaches and internal control failings relating to under-segregation of client money (Note 1). The disciplinary action follows an ...
HKEX to Introduce Options on Three More Blue Chips on 10 April
March 16th, 2017
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) will introduce options on Hang Seng Index constituents AAC Technologies, Geely Automotive and Link REIT on Monday, 10 April 2017 to further strengthen its options market. The Link options will be HKEX’s ...
The pirce of digital asset ether surged to a new all-time high
March 16th, 2017
The price of ether, the token that powers the blockchain-based smart contract platform ethereum, surged to a new all-time high today. The digital asset, which had been edging up throughout the week, rose to as much as $32.78 on ...
Supervisory Authorities around the world warn for unathorised financial services providers
March 16th, 2017
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Ireland (Central Bank of Ireland), Spain (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – CNMV), Luxembourg (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier – CSSF), Hong Kong (Securities and ...
Global Stock, Bond Rally Spurred by Central Banks: Markets Wrap
March 16th, 2017
Gold and oil advance while dollar maintains losses on Fed move Yen steady as BOJ stays the course; euro jumps on Dutch vote Central banks ruled over financial markets, as the Federal Reserve’s move to raise interest rates without ...
