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Gold demand up 42 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2018 among central banks
October 29th, 2018
Central banks around the world are turning to gold as an alternative to the US dollar, which they see as being undermined by America’s aggressive trade policy and geopolitical uncertainty. Demand for gold was up 42 percent year on ...
iSignthis Probanx Delivers Core Banking to Wanfuteng Bank
October 17th, 2018
Highlights Wanfuteng Bank now integrated to core banking platform “CorePlus” Joins 16 other banks as a customer Probanx core banking platform services banks located across 3 continents FY2018 (Calendar) EBIT for Probanx business unit revised to €275-300k iSignthis Ltd ...
Dutch bank ING fined 775 million euros in money laundering case
September 7th, 2018
Dutch bank ING has paid 775 million euros ($897 million) to settle a huge money laundering case in the Netherlands, prosecutors said Tuesday. The country’s financial prosecution service said in a statement that ING for years failed to adequately ...
More Emerging Market Chaos – How Long Before It Spreads To The Developed World?
August 31st, 2018
Emerging market chaos is now front page news. Let’s start with Argentina, where the peso has resumed its plunge: In response: “Argentina Central Bank hikes interest rate to 60 percent (AP) — Argentina’s Central Bank has increased its ...
Deutsche Bank traders reaped $35 million on Turkey turmoil
August 16th, 2018
Deutsche Bank AG fixed-income traders generated a $35 million profit in two weeks as economic turmoil in Turkey triggered a slump in assets across emerging markets, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The traders, who work on ...
Valuing Gold In A World Awash With Dollars
July 27th, 2018
Summary In this article I point to the pressures on the Fed to moderate monetary policy, but that will only affect the timing of the next cyclical credit crisis. That is going to happen anyway, triggered by the Fed ...
European Central Bank: How the euro helps small business
July 2nd, 2018
The European Central Bank has published a video explaining how the euro helps small business. As in most parts of the world, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) form the backbone of the euro area economy. The below video ...
Europe’s banks and industrial stocks sink as trade dispute deepens
June 26th, 2018
The latest episode in a trade dispute between the United States and other major economies sent European shares further into a funk on Monday with benchmarks down 0.8 to 1.2 percent and autos, basic resources and tech stocks the ...
Central bankers claim bitcoin could break the internet
June 21st, 2018
Who’s right about bitcoin: the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) or cryptocurrency advocates? The Bank of International Settlements on Sunday said bitcoin is “a poor substitute for the solid institutional backing of money.” Critics in the crypto world say ...
Strategic partnership between Worldline and SIX consolidating European payments
May 24th, 2018
Worldline’s $2.75 billion deal to buy the payments unit of Swiss exchange operator SIX Group, announced on Tuesday, could herald more consolidation in the industry, SIX’s chairman told Reuters. France’s Worldline beat competition from U.S. bidders to land the ...
