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Oil prices fall on rise in U.S. drilling, strong dollar
October 17th, 2016
Oil prices fell early on Monday, pulled down by a rising rig count in the United States, a strong dollar and record OPEC-output which comes amid slowing global economic growth that could erode fuel demand. U.S. West Texas Intermediate ...
Deutsche Bank Is Said to Begin Companywide Hiring Freeze
October 14th, 2016
Deutsche Bank has instituted a company wide hiring freeze as the embattled lender looks to speed up efforts to reduce costs and regain the confidence of investors as concerns mount about the progress of its turnaround, according to a person ...
Over 8 million Bitcoin wallets left inaccessible as Blockchain.info hit with DNS hijack
October 14th, 2016
Blockchain.info, one of the most popular online Bitcoin wallet services in the world, was forced to take its service offline this week (12 October) after suffering a DNS hijack that left its 8 million-strong userbase vulnerable to cyberattack. The ...
CLS published Monthly volumes and values for September 2016
October 14th, 2016
FX settlement services provider CLS has issued a report to publish its Monthly Data for September 2016. According to the company, total input volumes1 and values are as below: The average daily input volume submitted to CLS, combining the ...
Saudi Arabia, SoftBank aim to be world’s No. 1 tech investor with $100 billion fund
October 14th, 2016
Saudi Arabia and Japan’s SoftBank Group (9984.T) will create a technology investment fund that could grow as large as $100 billion, making it one of the world’s largest private equity investors and a potential kingpin in the industry. The ...
SFC commences cybersecurity review on brokers’ internet and mobile trading systems
October 13th, 2016
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has launched a review to assess the cybersecurity preparedness, compliance and resilience of brokers’ internet and mobile trading systems (Note 1). The review followed a number of reports from securities brokers that the ...
LSE listed company is seeking to acquire companies within the Forex sector
October 13th, 2016
Boston International Holdings plc, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) formed to undertake one or more acquisitions of target companies or businesses in the FX sector, has issued an announcement to inform that its entire issued ordinary share capital ...
Companies from UK, Cyprus, Germany, Italy and 12 other countries involved in a gigantic millions euro tax scam
October 13th, 2016
Four Maltese companies have been implicated in what the Italian authorities are describing as a ‘gigantic carousel fraud’, the Vicenza Guardia di Finanza reported yesterday. The scam, which was perpetrated through 145 Italian companies and 35 companies outside of ...
Kuwait raises minimum wage for family visa to cut the number of foreign families in the country
October 13th, 2016
The interior ministry yesterday raised the minimum salary required for expatriates to be able to sponsor their wives and children from KD 250 to KD 450 in a move expected to cut the number of foreign families in the ...
Mobile Payments soar as Europe embraces new ways to pay
October 12th, 2016
The number of Europeans regularly using a mobile device for payments has tripled since 2015 (54% vs 18%) 74% of British consumers are ‘Mobile Payments users’ – people who manage their money or make payments using a mobile device ...
