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Goldman tentatively agrees to pay $270 million to settle lawsuit by investors
August 4th, 2015
Goldman Sachs Group Inc has tentatively agreed to pay about $270 million to settle a lawsuit by investors, according to a source familiar with the matter. Pension funds led by NECA-IBEW Health & Welfare Fund of Illinois accused the ...
Russia’s Banks Turn Away Clients as Borrowers Fall Behind
August 4th, 2015
JSC Alfa Bank, the Russian private bank founded by billionaire Mikhail Fridman, is scaling back lending for all but the most affluent clients after a growing share of customers fell behind on payments this year. The Moscow-based bank last ...
OECD updates anti-tax evasion list
August 4th, 2015
Europe’s attempts to clean up tax evasion and money laundering took a step forward yesterday when an international task group said that Austria — a eurozone nation that was until recently falling short —was almost fully compliant with new ...
RBA: Monetary Policy Decision
August 4th, 2015
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) at its meeting today, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.0 per cent. The global economy is expanding at a moderate pace, but some key commodity prices are much lower than ...
Former Libor ‘Ringmaster’ Hayes Gets 14 Years for Libor Rigging
August 4th, 2015
Former UBS Group AG and Citigroup Inc. trader Tom Hayes, the first person to stand trial for manipulating Libor, was sentenced to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy to rig the benchmark rate. After a ...
China stock exchanges step up crackdown on short-selling
August 4th, 2015
China stepped up its crackdown on short-selling of shares on Tuesday, unveiling rules that make it harder for speculators to profit from hourly price changes, as some of the nation’s major brokerages suspended their short-selling businesses. China’s stock exchanges ...
Can Turkey compete with France for Iranian market?
August 3rd, 2015
The anticipated removal of sanctions on Iran opens up wide political and economic opportunities for that country’s authorities. A number of European countries are already expressing great interest in Iran’s economy. One of them is France. The visit of ...
Standard Chartered, Societe Generale are among four banks added to Forex Lawsuit by investors
August 3rd, 2015
Standard Chartered Plc and Societe Generale SA are among four banks added to a suit by investors claiming banks manipulated the $5.3 trillion a day foreign-exchange market. The investors filed a revised complaint Friday in which they broadened their ...
Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) trading has gone insane
July 31st, 2015
Activity led by SPY, which trades about $24 billion a day for eye-popping turnover of 3,400% Everyone is talking about how exchange-traded funds have now overtaken hedge funds in terms of total assets. That’s small change compared with how much ...
Microsoft and MIT Explore Unique Applications of the Bitcoin Blockchain
July 30th, 2015
Microsoft New York and MIT Media Lab presented a 70-minute report called #Blockchain4good this week. Speakers included Brian Forde, MIT Media Lab director of digital currency and former senior technology adviser at the White House, and John Paul Farmer, ...