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Paysafe appoints Tim Thurman as Chief Digital Officer
March 3rd, 2017
Former Australian Stock Exchange CIO and tech leader to drive next level of Group’s digital transformation Paysafe Group plc (PAYS.L), a leading global payments provider, has appointed digital technology innovator Tim Thurman as its Chief Digital Officer, reporting to ...
Mobile payments in China exceed US$1tn in one quarter
March 2nd, 2017
China’s Third-party Mobile Payments Size Hit RMB9,041.9 Billion(US$ 1314.23 billion) in 2016 Q3 In 2016 Q3, China’s third-party mobile payment market reached RMB9,041.9 billion in size, a jump of 20.5% quarter on quarter, shows the Quarterly Monitoring Report on ...
Investment in Australian fintech reached a record level
March 2nd, 2017
Investment in Australian fintech reached a record $656 million in 2016, more than triple the $185 million invested in 2015, according to a report by professional services firm KPMG. This equates to an annual average growth rate of around ...
FCA proposes reforms to the availability of information in the UK equity IPO process
March 1st, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today launched a Consultation Paper (CP) proposing a package of measures to reform the availability of information during the UK equity initial public offering (IPO) process. The IPO process plays a vital role ...
App-only startup bank Monzo crowdfunding passed £2.5 million ($3.1 million) in less than 24 hours
March 1st, 2017
App-only startup bank Monzo has attracted enough initial interest in its £2.5 million ($3.1 million) crowdfunding campaign to fill it close to three times over, after less than 24 hours of pre-registration. Monzo opened pre-registrations for its crowdfunding at ...
Israel Tax Authority probing 30,000 more Israelis’ US accounts
February 28th, 2017
Information from the IRS will be cross-checked with reports by Israelis about their overseas assets. The Israel Tax Authority today announced that in recent days, it had obtained additional information about 30,000 accounts at US financial concerns belonging to ...
Bank of Israel keeps the interest rate unchanged
February 28th, 2017
Inflation data: The Consumer Price Index for January declined by 0.2 percent, in line with the average of forecasters’ projections. There were seasonal declines this month in the clothing and footwear component (9.2 percent), in the housing component (0.5 ...
360T appoints Simon Jones as Chief Growth Officer
February 28th, 2017
360T Group, Deutsche Börse Group’s powerhouse for FX and independent global provider of a multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform, continuous to invest in accelerating its strong growth path by making a high caliber addition to its Management. Simon Jones has ...
5 Reasons to be excited about European Stocks
February 27th, 2017
After years in the doldrums, European stocks seem poised to break out of their trading rut and possibly outperform the U.S. equity market this year. Eurozone politics and sluggish economic growth have not been kind to European stocks in ...
Global (economic) warming
February 26th, 2017
If the economy was on its uppers, Trumpenomics could be reasonably compared with Reaganomics. But that is not the case. The economy is operating close to capacity, ….any further fiscal and monetary expansion will begin to create …. economic ...
