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Regulatory Fine
June 26th, 2015
Global Regulators Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) Fines Imposed for Year 2015 and 2016
Quantitative Easing in 5 key questions
June 25th, 2015
On January 22, 2015, the European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi launched the institution’s Quantitative Easing (QE) program. QE is an exceptional measure, taken when traditional means of stimulating activity and growth prove ineffective. Learn more about the concept via five ...
Clifford Chance advises Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan and Standard Chartered Bank on a $500 Million Offering
June 23rd, 2015
Clifford Chance has issued a press release to inform that: The firm has advised Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan and Standard Chartered Bank in connection with the $500 million offering of 6.950% notes due 2025 by the Gabonese Republic. It ...
Banks’ Civil Forex Settlements Near $2 Billion
June 18th, 2015
Barclays, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs and HSBC recently signed agreements to settle case The total amount paid by banks to settle a civil lawsuit tied to allegations traders manipulated the currency market has now reached almost $2 billion following ...
EU Bank-Separation Bill Sets $112 Billion Trading Mark
June 16th, 2015
Banks with annual trading activities of more than 100 billion euros ($112 billion) would face added scrutiny from supervisors armed with a tool box of capital rules and separation powers in a draft European Union law. Envoys from the ...
China’s stock market is now worth over $10 trillion
June 15th, 2015
$10 trillion! That’s how much money China’s stock market is worth right now. As of the end of May, the Shanghai Stock Exchange had a total market cap of $5.9 trillion while the Shenzhen Stock Exchange clocked in at $4.4 trillion, ...
MSCI puts decision to include China ‘A’ shares in index on hold
June 10th, 2015
U.S. index provider MSCI Inc (MSCI.N) has told China it must further liberalize its capital markets before it will include Chinese domestic shares in one of its global benchmarks, in a setback for Beijing’s efforts to promote its currency ...
Standard Chartered Joins FXSpotStream as the 11th Liquidity Provider
May 19th, 2015
FXSPOTSTREAM ANNOUNCES THAT STANDARD CHARTERED HAS JOINED AS A LIQUIDITY PROVIDER OF FXSPOTSTREAM’S PRICE AGGREGATION SERVICE, EXPANDING FXSPOTSTREAM’S LIQUIDITY PROVIDERS TO ELEVEN GLOBAL FX BANKS FXSpotStream LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LiquidityMatch LLC, today announced that Standard Chartered ...
U.S. SEC a stumbling block in banks’ forex guilty pleas – sources
May 15th, 2015
Banks want assurances from U.S. regulators that they will not be barred from certain businesses before agreeing to plead guilty to criminal charges over the manipulation of foreign exchange rates, causing a delay in multibillion-dollar settlements, people familiar with ...
Bank parents or main units seen pleading guilty over FX: sources
May 12th, 2015
The parent companies or main banking units of as many as five major banks, rather than their smaller subsidiaries, are expected to plead guilty to U.S. criminal charges over manipulation of foreign exchange rates, people familiar with the matter ...
