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Japan Shares Jump Most in Four Years
September 9th, 2015
Possibility of more stimulus from Beijing boosts sentiment Stocks in Japan jumped the most in more than four years Wednesday, shaking off unease about slowing growth in China amid a tentative rebound in Chinese stocks. The region’s shares ...
A Bitcoin miner is back on track to be the first on the ASX
September 8th, 2015
Bitcoin Group is closer to becoming the world’s first cryptocurrency miner to float on a stock exchange. The company today re-released its prospectus after having to withdraw the documents following questions from the ASX. It is raising $20 million ...
KPMG gets Hands-on with systems integration
September 8th, 2015
KPMG Australia has announced its acquisition of Hands-on Systems, adding powerful execution capability to its technology-based transformation services. The acquisition strengthens KPMG’s global alliance with Microsoft, with KPMG today also being announced as a Gold competency partner for Microsoft ...
Asian stocks hold gains after China data in volatile trade
September 8th, 2015
Asian stocks edged higher on Tuesday after a six-day losing streak and the dollar firmed against the safe-haven Japanese yen, but gains were capped as a slump in China’s imports raised fears of a more severe slowdown there. China’s ...
ICAP invests in Abide Financial
September 7th, 2015
Strategic investment made through Euclid Opportunities, ICAP’s early stage FinTech funding business ICAP plc, has issued an announcement today to inform that it has made a strategic investment in Abide Financial, a market-leading global regulatory reporting specialist. The investment ...
Dukascopy Bank is looking for FX brokers to buy
September 7th, 2015
Dukascopy Bank has issued a statement to inform that the firm is looking out to acquire licensed FX Brokers. The firm’s statement informs that After Japan, Dukascopy Bank now is willing to get physical presence in Australia, South Korea, ...
Deloitte launches new leadership consulting practice
September 4th, 2015
Deloitte, the business advisory firm, today announces the launch of a new leadership consulting practice. The practice will recruit 700 people across Deloitte’s network of member firms by 2020 and 140 of these will be based in the UK.* ...
PayPal Announces Launch of PayPal.Me Peer-to-peer Payments Similar to Square Cash or Bitcoin Wallets
September 4th, 2015
Receiving money from a friend, client or anyone else on PayPal just got a little bit easier. Today, the company announced the launch of PayPal.Me, a personal, vanity PayPal link that makes it easy to remind people to send ...
Nerves ahead of US jobs bring down Asian stocks
September 4th, 2015
Asian stocks declined on the final trading day of the week, as investors awaited the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report for August that may play a crucial role in the Federal Reserve‘s decision about when to lift interest rates. A ...
Additional licence conditions imposed on Advamode
September 3rd, 2015
ASIC has imposed additional conditions on the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence of Advamode Financial Pty Ltd (Advamode). The conditions were imposed on the Queensland-based financial services firm after an ASIC surveillance identified concerns regarding their ability to effectively ...
