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The true role of gold
February 19th, 2016
At a time of growing concern about the global financial system, it is time to remind ourselves why physical gold is so important for the benefit of the nearly three quarters of a million BitGold and GoldMoney customers, as ...
Visa Puts Consumers in Charge of Security
February 9th, 2016
Visa Consumer Transaction Controls to Allow Consumers to Direct How, Where, and When Their Credit and Debit Accounts Can Be Used Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), a global leader in payments, is introducing a new service to help Visa issuers empower consumers ...
Greece: Finance Ministry to present plan for a single set of tax rates for all
February 1st, 2016
Greece: The Finance Ministry is set in the next few days to present creditors with the changes it is planning to introduce on 2016 income taxation. The measures being considered are to decrease the number of income brackets from ...
Visa’s contactless payments soar by 250pc in the UK, as firm reports record revenues in Europe
January 26th, 2016
Cash is no longer king in the UK, where Visa Europe‘s contactless payments soared by 250 per cent last year. The electronic payments business said that people purchasing items by waving their Visa credit or debit cards over payment terminals ...
S.Korean antitrust agency probes Volkswagen over emissions ads
January 22nd, 2016
South Korea’s antitrust regulator is probing Volkswagen AG over its advertising claims on emissions from its cars, an official at the agency told Reuters on Friday. The Fair Trade Commission official said a probe is under way without elaborating. ...
European Union to Scrutinize Usage of Big Data by Large Internet Companies
January 18th, 2016
Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s comments highlight increased focus regulators giving to the use of so-called big data The European Union is considering whether the way large Internet companies, such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google or Facebook Inc., collect vast quantities of data is ...
Goldman, JPMorgan Seen as Fintech Winners While AmEx Suffers
December 29th, 2015
Autonomous Research survey finds most unafraid of disruption American Express, Western Union seen as biggest losers Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. will probably benefit most from the coming wave of financial technology disruption, rather ...
J.P. Morgan to Increase Deposit Rates for Some Big Clients in January
December 29th, 2015
Bank is among first of big peers to boost deposit rates after Fed decision on interest rates J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. will raise deposit rates for some of its biggest clients in January, according to a person familiar with ...
Apple & China UnionPay to Bring Apple Pay to China
December 18th, 2015
Apple® and China UnionPay today announced a partnership to bring Apple Pay®, which transforms mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay, to China. China UnionPay cardholders will be able to easily add their bank cards ...
Swatch partners with Visa for pay-by-the-wrist contactless payments
December 1st, 2015
Swatch SA and Visa Inc. together with Visa Europe have signed an agreement giving eligible Visa cardholders in the U.S., Switzerland and Brazil the ability to tap and pay with Swatch’s new «pay-by-the-wrist» watch, Swatch Bellamy. Slated to launch ...
