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Culture in financial institutions: it’s everywhere and nowhere; FCA Chief Executive
March 16th, 2017
Highlights A firm’s culture emerges in large part from inputs that are its responsibility. It is for firms to ensure that their desired culture is consistent with appropriate conduct outcomes, to identify the drivers of behaviour within the firm ...
Fintech startup offers loans of up to £5,000 in just two minutes
March 16th, 2017
Fintech startup Revolut has partnered with a peer-to-peer lender to offer loans to users, its newest product in addition to a current account and money transfers. With Lending Works, it will offer loans of up to £5,000 at a ...
PayPal Invests in $48 Million Series C of Korean Fintech Payments Startup
March 15th, 2017
South Korean Fintech firm Viva Republica has closed a KRW 55 billion ($48 million) Series C round of funding which saw participation from the likes of PayPal and other significant backers. Viva Republic is the developer opf Toss, a now-popular peer-to-peer ...
CySec decided to wholly withdraw the license of a Cyprus Investment Firm
March 15th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform investors and public that the Commission decided to wholly withdraw the CIF authorization with number CIF 085/07 of Atlas Capital Financial Services Ltd. CySec has suspended ...
HKEX advances the preparatory work for Bond Connect
March 15th, 2017
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) welcomes the announcement by Li Keqiang, the Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, today about setting up bond market links between Hong Kong and Mainland China. HKEX ...
Brickington has agreed to sell 13.0 million Playtech shares
March 15th, 2017
Playtech plc (“Playtech”) announces it has been notified by Brickington Trading Limited (“Brickington”) that following a direct and unsolicited inbound enquiry to Brickington by Boussard & Gavaudan Investment Management LLP (“Boussard & Gavaudan”), Brickington has agreed to sell 13.0 ...
Elliott Wave Analysis: Big Corrrection On AUDUSD Looks Completed; More Weakness May Follow
March 14th, 2017
On the Daily chart of AUDUSD we are observing a big, slow and overlapping price affair unfolding. This specific pattern is known as a contracting triangle correction that is made out of five sub-waves. As we can see on ...
HKEX Sets Asian Record for L&I Product Listings on a Single Day
March 14th, 2017
The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has issued today a press release to announce that four providers of Leveraged and Inverse Products (L&I Products) listed a total of 16 products today on the Stock Exchange of Hong ...
Eurobank organizes the 2nd regional FinTech Competition “Beyond Hackathon”
March 14th, 2017
Eurobank organizes the 2nd regional FinTech Competition “Beyond Hackathon” which is going to take place, on 17 – 19 of March 2017, at Eurobank premises at Nea Ionia (building H) in cooperation with the business partners, Found.ation & The ...
SIX Swiss Exchange reports slight decrease in turnover in February 2017
March 13th, 2017
As of end of February 2017, trading turnover on SIX Swiss Exchange and SIX Structured Products Exchange totalled CHF 228.5 bn which corresponds to a decrease of -2.8%. The only increases were registered in the segments ETF (+16.1%) and ...
