IG Group Preliminary results for the year ended 31 May 2015
July 21st, 2015
IG Group announced today results for the year ended 31 May 2015 Operating and financial summary Good growth in revenue(1); underlying(2) up 8% at £400.2 million; reported up 4.9% at £388.4 million Reported results impacted by Swiss franc event ...
UAE making 2015 the year of renewable energy
July 6th, 2015
Some consider 2015 to be the year for renewable energy in the UAE. Three reasons stand out: the country’s expansion of clean-energy projects, its funding of renewable projects abroad and the fact that the Emirates has the lowest solar-energy ...
OPEC 167th Meeting concludes
June 8th, 2015
The 167th Meeting of the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was held in Vienna, Austria, on Friday, 5th June 2015 under the Chairmanship of its Alternate President, HE Dr. Mohammed Bin Saleh Al Sada, ...
Emerging market regulators aim for deeper and more resilient capital markets
April 29th, 2015
Global emerging capital market regulators met in Cairo this week and reinforced their commitment to maintain market resilience while focusing on efforts to accelerate the sustainable growth and development of emerging capital markets. At its three-day Annual Meeting and ...
Derivatives under MiFID II: Time for equal access
March 26th, 2015
Verena Ross, Executive Director of ESMA, recently delivered a keynote speech to the ABA/Law Society Capital Markets Conference in London. Her speech focused on the importance of increasing transparency in MiFID II “in a manner that does not “damage”, ...
Indirect tax rates continue to soar across the globe as governments devise new levies
March 3rd, 2015
Value-added tax (VAT) rates surge to a high of 21.6% in EU Member States More countries levying VAT, particularly in emerging markets Governments introduce new taxes on health products and e-commerce As VAT rates continue to rise, governments are ...
Events – Conferences – Seminars
February 26th, 2015
Stay updated with coming Live Events, Conferences and Seminars for Forex Market, Accounting, Legal Banking and in general on Business, Finance and Investments
Crude-oil shocker: API data show supply surging
February 19th, 2015
The oil market got a bit of a shock late Wednesday, when the American Petroleum Institute’s supply data were released. U.S. crude-oil supplies as of the week ended Feb. 13 saw a whopping 14.3 million-barrel jump from a week earlier, the ...
$9 Trillion Question Is How Tighter Fed Will Impact the World
February 13th, 2015
When Group of 20 finance ministers this week urged the Federal Reserve to “minimize negative spillovers” from potential interest-rate increases, they omitted a key figure: $9 trillion. That’s the amount owed in dollars by non-bank borrowers outside the U.S., ...
Greek Exit Would Be Difficult for World Economy: Osborne
February 10th, 2015
Today February 10, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne discussed the risks of a “Grexit” and how he’s planning ahead to deal with any outcome. He speaks to Bloomberg’s Svenja O’Donnell at the G-20 Summit in Istanbul. Watch the ...
