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Northzone raises €300m fund and is eyeing London fintech startups
September 5th, 2016
A European venture capital firm which has previously backed Spotify, iZettle and London fintech startup MarketInvoice, has launched a new multi-million pound fund to plough into tech startups across Europe, including the UK in another vote of confidence in the ...
13 Percent VAT Confirmed For Egypt
September 2nd, 2016
Egyptian lawmakers have agreed to the introduction of a value-added tax regime with a 13 percent headline rate from the 2016/17 fiscal year. The rate is to rise to 14 percent from 2017/18. In May, Egypt’s Finance Minister disclosed ...
Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy causes turmoil in global sea freight
September 2nd, 2016
The bankruptcy of the Hanjin shipping line has thrown ports and retailers around the world into confusion, with giant container ships marooned and merchants worrying whether hundreds of tonnes of goods being carried by the South Korean company will ...
Spotware Systems announces new features in their September 2016 update of cTrader Windows
September 2nd, 2016
Spotware Systems announce the latest features included in the just released September 2016 update of cTrader for Windows as the company continues to deliver regular product updates to benefit traders. cTrader now includes another new functionality to join their ...
Cashless payments get easier in the UAE
September 1st, 2016
Making payments through mobile phones is not a dream anymore, as sixteen banks have become equity partners in an entity which will own and operate mWallet platform. The mWallet or mobile wallet platform is the financial component of the UAE Government’s Smart ...
Investors miss out on $500 billion as global bond yields plunge, Fitch Rating says
September 1st, 2016
Investors have seen their interest income squeezed as global bond yields plunge. On the flipside, governments aren’t complaining. Relative to yields in 2011, global investors are foregoing more than $500 billion in annual income on roughly $38 trillion in ...
Financial regulators tell G20 to focus on legal gaps
August 31st, 2016
Bank regulators are better prepared to cope with the potential failure of a major bank but more work needs to be done on the finer detail of legal agreements covering bank resolution and derivatives trade reporting, the Financial Stability ...
Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank Shares Rise on Report of Potential Merger
August 31st, 2016
Shares in Commerzbank (CRZBY) and Deutsche Bank (DB) rose on Wednesday after Manager Magazin reported news of a potential merger of Germany’s two leading lenders. The weekly news publication said Deutsche Bank is “moving towards until now unthinkable options with ...
MetLife joins R3 distributed ledger consortium
August 31st, 2016
Insurance giant MetLife, Inc. has joined the R3 partnership, a consortium of 60 of the world’s largest financial institutions focused on designing and applying distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies for global financial markets. As one of the largest insurers ...
SWIFT Discloses More Cyber Thefts
August 31st, 2016
SWIFT, the global financial messaging system, on Tuesday disclosed new hacking attacks on its member banks as it pressured them to comply with security procedures instituted after February’s high-profile $81 million heist at Bangladesh Bank. In a private letter ...
