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London Stock Exchange to buy Citi’s Yield Book bonds analysis business for $685 million
May 30th, 2017
London Stock Exchange (LSE)(LSE.L) has agreed to buy The Yield Book, Citigroup’s (C.N) fixed-income analytics service and also its related indexing business, for $685 million in cash, the companies said on Tuesday. LSE, which had said it would be ...
Global Stock Rally Lives On Amid Earnings Optimism: Markets Wrap
April 26th, 2017
Chalco profit follows results from McDonald’s, Caterpillar Japan equities climb amid yen weakness; Australian shares rise Asian stocks extended a global rally after corporate results and hopes of U.S. tax reform boosted optimism for global growth. Weakness in the ...
Real Estate Stocks Continue To Rebound
April 18th, 2017
Foreign and US real estate stocks extended March’s rally into the first week of April, generating the top performances among the major asset classes last week, based on a set representative exchange-traded products. Vanguard Global ex-US Real Estate (VNQI) ...
Commodities broker Marex Spectron announced record profits
March 31st, 2017
Marex Spectron, the global commodities broker, today announced record profits before tax of $27.0 million for the year through to 31 December 2016, a 53% increase on the $17.6 million reported in 2015, and maintains the firm’s positive earnings ...
LCH SA offering repo clearing on German debt
March 28th, 2017
Extended service offers greater choice and more netting opportunities for RepoClear’s members Members of LCH SA can offset trades on German debt with eligible European repo transactions cleared at LCH SA, through T2S Settlement available via Clearstream Frankfurt, Euroclear ...
Why the US Dollar Fell
March 16th, 2017
The US Dollar exchange rate complex came under pressure following the US Federal Reserve’sdecision to raise interest rates 0.25% ensuring their upper band on interest rates sits at 1.0%. However, this was expected and cannot be said to be ...
Plato Partnership announces 15 new Partners
March 7th, 2017
Plato Partnership, a not-for-profit company bringing creative solutions and efficiencies to today’s equity marketplace, is pleased to announce 15 new Plato Partners. The new Partners announced today include: BBVA Asset Management, Capital International Ltd, part of the Capital Group, ...
Credit Suisse (UK) Limited appoints new CEO
March 6th, 2017
Credit Suisse appointed Christian Berchem as Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse (UK) Limited, the UK Private Banking business, effective June 7, 2017, subject to regulatory approval. Christian will be responsible for ensuring that the platform continues to drive ...
KPMG in the UK elects new Chairman
March 3rd, 2017
Bill Michael will succeed Simon Collins, whose term as UK Chairman ends on 30th September 2017. Bill, an auditor by background, has worked for KPMG for nearly 30 years and is currently the firm’s Global Head of Banking and ...
European v US investment banks: Tectonic shifts
February 22nd, 2017
Much of the sector is in dire straits – partly because of previous efforts to compete globally. As investment banks, the Europeans are not even winning on their home turf. JPMorgan’s investment-banking revenue market share for Europe, Middle East ...
