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Welcome To The Currency War, Part 20: Corporate Profits Head South, Stock Prices To Follow?
November 26th, 2015
A too-strong currency is, in theory, supposed to make it harder to sell things to cheap-currency countries, thus crimping corporate profits and by implication pretty much everything else. The US dollar has been rising against the rest of ...
Blockchain Consortium focused on the Commodity Markets
November 25th, 2015
Kynetix, a global leader in Commodity post trade technology platforms, today announced it is launching a Commodity-focused blockchain consortium. An inaugural dinner will take place in London this Wednesday with 15 participants representing major commodity exchanges, investment banks, clearing ...
Oil prices rise after Turkey shoots down jet claimed by Russia
November 24th, 2015
Oil prices rose on Tuesday after news that Turkey shot down what is likely to be a Russian jet over Syria and a softer U.S. dollar supported prices across the commodity spectrum. Turkish authorities didn’t give the nationality of ...
BBVA enters Britain with £45m Atom deal
November 24th, 2015
BBVA has become the most recent Spanish bank to make an entry into the British market, following in the footsteps of Sabadell and Santander. It bought a 29.5% stake in Atom to become the single-largest shareholder in UK’s first ...
HBOS and KPMG tensions exposed by report
November 24th, 2015
TENSIONS between HBOS’s senior management and the bank’s auditor KPMG have been exposed in the long-awaited bumper report into the financial institution’s epic failure. The 500-page tome, which took over three years and £7m to compile, reveals that the ...
HMRC collects £3.5bn from investigations into big businesses’ underpaid corporation tax
November 23rd, 2015
HMRC collected an extra £3.5bn in corporate tax from challenging businesses on their payments in the last tax year, according to figures from Pinsent Masons. The £3.5bn came from investigations into underpaid corporation tax carried out by HMRC’s Large Business ...
GlobalRisk and Interactive Data Collaboration
November 20th, 2015
GlobalRisk and Interactive Data Collaborate to Support CFTC’s Derivatives Oversight Operations Offering will provide market regulator with real-time pricing and data to support greater transparency into risk exposures Interactive Data, a leading provider of lowlatency technology and market data ...
Publication of the PRA and FCA review into the failure of HBOS
November 19th, 2015
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are today publishing the review into the failure of HBOS Group. This review was originally started by the former regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Its purpose is ...
Tax transparency and reform leave nowhere to hide for tax functions of the future on data demands
November 19th, 2015
Employees in tax functions need to fundamentally change the way they use and gather data if they are to meet the growing demands on business of tax transparency, reform and technology enabled decision making. PwC’s latest research into the ...
Brokers in push for mutual funds to be added on HKEx platform
November 19th, 2015
Mutual fund trading platform would bolster Hong Kong as a hub for financial products, brokers say Brokers have urged the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing to launch a trading platform targeted at listed mutual fund products. The Hong Kong ...
