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Google cancels staff meeting after Gamergate-style attack on employees
August 11th, 2017
Google cancelled a company-wide meeting on Thursday after several of its employees became targets of a Gamergate-style campaign of harassment by internet trolls angered by the firing of an engineer who had written a controversial memo about diversity. “We ...
FXCM released financial information for second quarter 2017
August 10th, 2017
FXCM Group, LLC (“FXCM Group” or “FXCM”), a leading international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading, spread betting and related services, has issued a press release to publish selected financial information regarding its second quarter 2017 results. ...
ESMA updates on transaction reporting, order record keeping and clock synchronisation
August 9th, 2017
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued an update of its Guidelines on transaction reporting, order record keeping and clock synchronisation under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). The updates corrects some unintended factual mistakes, ...
Oil falls for third day
August 9th, 2017
Oil falls for third day as doubts over OPEC cuts linger Crude futures fell for a third day on Wednesday despite a bigger than expected fall in U.S. oil inventories reported by an industry group, with doubts lingering over ...
Global fintech investment rebounds in Q2 2017
August 7th, 2017
Total global fintech investment more than doubled quarter over quarter in Q2’17 to US $8.4 billion, up from US$3.6 billion in Q1’17, according to the KPMG Pulse of Fintech report. Global M&A investment helped drive the fintech market rebound, ...
Trader ordered to pay hundreds of thousands dollars in “spoofing” incidents
August 2nd, 2017
CFTC Orders New York Trader Simon Posen to Pay a $635,000 Civil Monetary Penalty and Permanently Bans Him from Trading in CFTC-Regulated Markets for Spoofing in the Gold, Silver, Copper, and Crude Oil Futures Markets Order Finds that Posen ...
EU Requires Belgium, France To End Port Tax Breaks
August 1st, 2017
Belgium and France must abolish corporate tax exemptions granted to their ports so as to align their tax regimes with European Union state aid rules, the European Commission has said. In a statement issued on July 27, the Commission ...
New South Korean digital bank signs up one million users in five days
August 1st, 2017
South Korean massaging giant Kakao has launched its digital bank, signing up more than one million account holders in its first few days. Kakao Bank says that it would have opened even more accounts if not for delays caused ...
Euro’s rally might receive a further boost
August 1st, 2017
A snowball effect: Euro to strengthen against Pound Sterling as Eurozone investors are forced to hedge against an unexpected strengthening of their currency. Analysts at BNP Paribas have warned their clients that the Euro’s rally might receive a further ...
Why economists cannot forecast recessions
July 28th, 2017
The purpose of this article is to draw the widest attention to the chronic inability of the economic establishment to forecast recessions. Next time you hear an economist make a prediction on mainstream media, your default assumption should ...
