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Greece Grabs Cash as More Than $2 Billion in Payouts Loom
March 17th, 2015
Greece will begin debating measures to boost liquidity as the cash-starved country braces for more than 2 billion euros ($2.12 billion) in debt payments Friday. Unable to access bailout funding and locked out of capital markets, the government will ...
New President of the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)
March 16th, 2015
As from the beginning of March, Felix Hufeld is the new President of BaFin. He took over from Dr Elke König at the beginning of March. Dr König will be moving to Brussels to help set up and head ...
Cyprus pulls back from abyss after traumatic bailout
March 16th, 2015
Two years after its failing banks nearly pushed cash-strapped Cyprus over the edge, sending shockwaves through the eurozone, the country has pulled back from the abyss, saved by painful austerity and a multi-billion euro rescue package. Indeed, Finance Minister ...
EU told to apologise to Credit Agricole over market rigging probe
March 13th, 2015
The European Commission has been ordered to apologise to French banking giant Credit Agricole for implying its guilt in the long-running investigation into financial market rigging before the probe had been completed. A report published on Thursday (13 March) ...
Spain’s Banco Sabadell in Talks to Buy Britain’s TSB Group
March 12th, 2015
Spain’s Banco de Sabadell SA is in talks to buy British consumer lender TSB Banking Group Plc for 1.7 billion pounds ($2.5 billion), to expand outside an economy battered during Europe’s financial crisis. Sabadell, Spain’s fifth-biggest bank, is proposing ...
Bundesbank posts €2.95 billion profit in 2014
March 12th, 2015
The Deutsche Bundesbank posted a profit of €2.95 billion for the 2014 financial year, compared with €4.59 billion in 2013. The profit was transferred in full today to the Federal Government of Germany pursuant to section 27 number 2 of the Bundesbank Act ...
Low oil prices and supportive policy to drive recovery in Eurozone
March 12th, 2015
After a year of tentative recovery in 2014, the Eurozone has moved into 2015 aided by two important growth drivers – sharply lower oil prices and QE according to the March 2015 issue of the EY Eurozone Forecast (EEF). ...
The Last, Great Run For The U.S. Dollar, The Death Of The Euro And 74 Trillion In Currency Derivatives At Risk
March 12th, 2015
Are we on the verge of an unprecedented global currency crisis? On Tuesday, the euro briefly fell below $1.07 for the first time in almost a dozen years. And the U.S. dollar continues to surge against almost every other ...
EU Parliament votes for capping of interchange fees
March 11th, 2015
The European Parliament has voted for a regulation to cap interchange fees for consumer debit and credit card payments. The regulation was drafted by the European Commission and is intended to reduce fees for the usage of card payments. Both European ...
TriOptima’s triResolve service expands in APAC adding Taiwan’s Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank
March 10th, 2015
TriOptima announces today that Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank (Fubon) is the first Taiwanese financial institution to join its triResolve portfolio reconciliation service. triResolve has grown 350% in Asia Pacific since 2012; and the service continues to add subscribers in ...