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Asian shares sluggish, Ukraine anxiety fans growth worries
August 13th, 2014
Asian shares were tentative on Wednesday, and copper prices slipped to six-week lows on worries about global growth, as investors remained cautious as the crisis in Ukraine threatened a fragile economic recovery in Europe. Adding to the fragile mood, ...
Asian shares push higher, shrug off global tension
July 22nd, 2014
Asian stocks touched a three-year peak on Tuesday, despite lingering concerns about crises in Ukraine and Gaza, while the yen eased against the dollar and the euro. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.5 percent to ...
Bank of China Hires in Hong Kong as High-Yield Bond Trade Starts
July 16th, 2014
Bank of China Ltd. is hiring traders and sales people in Hong Kong as it sets up a high-yield bond-trading platform to boost market share and cement its position as one of Asia’s top 10 debt underwriters. Surging sales ...
Oil futures slide with focus on U.S. oil supply
September 22nd, 2015
Crude-oil futures dropped Tuesday, giving up some of the prior day’s strong gains, as analysts said data on U.S. oil supply and China’s economy could cause more price volatility this week. Oil-futures for delivery in November CLX5, -2.49% fell ...
China turns to Islamic finance to expand economic clout
September 22nd, 2015
Islamic finance is gaining prominence as a channel for China to expand its economic influence abroad as banks strengthen ties with Muslim-majority countries and Chinese companies start to tap offshore pools of Islamic funds. With a Muslim population of ...
G20-Germany urges more Islamic finance integration globally
September 7th, 2015
Islamic finance is increasingly important in the global economy and needs to be better integrated into the international financial system, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a meeting of the Group of 20 leading economies on Saturday. Islamic finance, ...
CFTC Staff Announces it is Issuing No-Action Relief from Introducing Broker and Commodity Trading Advisor
June 8th, 2015
CFTC Staff Announces it is Issuing No-Action Relief from Introducing Broker and Commodity Trading Advisor Registration to Persons Located Outside the United States Engaged in Activities on behalf of Customers that are International Financial Institutions The U.S. Commodity Futures ...
International and regional bodies that combat money laundering (part C)
March 9th, 2015
Introduction Money laundering is a global phenomenon that thrives parasitically on the world’s financial markets. It ignores national boundaries in much the same way that the financial market place does. It has been accepted that this problem requires both ...
China Buys Friends and Influences Nations
May 6th, 2014
If you can’t beat them, outspend them. That seems to be the thinking behind a huge new infrastructure investment fund being promoted by China as an alternative to established international lending agencies. It’s a terrible rationale for starting a ...
New IBA report examines fintech regulation across 39 jurisdictions
April 21st, 2023
The International Bar Association banking law committee has published a report entitled ‘Fintech: how is the world shaping the financial innovation industry?’ The report compares the fintech regulatory frameworks of 39 jurisdictions across North and South America, Africa, Asia ...