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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 ...
E-conveyancing among legal industry’s biggest IT concerns
August 12th, 2015
Sixty per cent of firms are planning to adopt a digital platform for conveyancing, Property Exchange Australia (PEXA), in the next two years, a new survey indicates. Legal software company GlobalX Legal Solutions recently conducted a survey of over ...
Saxo Payments announces fourth major contract in a month
July 1st, 2015
Valitor selects Saxo Payments Banking Marketplace to enhance customer offering across international markets Saxo Payments, the global transactions services provider, has secured its fourth contract win in the space of a month. The latest partnership, with Valitor, a leading ...
Big Law Firms Spending More on Technology, Experts Say
June 29th, 2015
U.S. law firms are devoting more of their budgets to technology, investing in practice and financial management systems, network upgrades and other areas, although the activity has been measured, according to legal experts. About half of the 281 law ...
Acritas’ UK Law Firm Brand Index reveals four year market winners
May 22nd, 2015
Smart strategic moves, a differentiated proposition and affinity with female buyers drive success for the UK’s leading law firm brands. Over the last four years, the UK legal market has seen many changes. Mergers together with new entrants from ...
Banks Said to Go to Legal Big Five in S. African Forex Probe
May 22nd, 2015
Banks under investigation in South Africa over alleged currency manipulation have hired the largest law firms in the country to advise them on the probe. Bowman Gilfillan, ENSafrica and Webber Wentzel, three of the so-called Big Five legal firms, ...
Big Law Firms Winning More of Intellectual Property Work
May 20th, 2015
As disputes over patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets have grown, the nation’s biggest law firms have wrested away much of the lucrative intellectual property litigation work from smaller boutique firms. Last year, the 50 largest firms had 61 ...
China Rate Swap Has Biggest Monthly Drop Since ’08 as PBOC Eases
April 30th, 2015
China’s interest-rate swaps were headed for the biggest monthly drop since 2008 as the central bank steps up monetary easing in support of the economy. The People’s Bank of China lowered lenders’ reserve requirements in April by the most ...
UK’s biggest banks face further $29 billion misconduct bill: S&P
April 27th, 2015
Britain’s biggest banks face another 19 billion pounds ($29 billion) of charges relating to past misconduct over the next two years, ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said in a report on Monday. S&P said Britain’s banks and customer-owned ...
Dollar heads for biggest weekly gain in nearly a month
April 10th, 2015
The dollar rose Friday against most major rivals, remaining on track to log its best week in about a month. The ICE U.S. Dollar Index DXY, +50% a key measure of the dollar’s strength against a basket of six currencies, ...
