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Traditional Financial Services Firms fear almost a quarter of their business is at risk from FinTechs
March 15th, 2016
FinTech companies are more bullish, believing they could capture a third of incumbents’ business Results from a PwC survey released today, which assesses the rise of new technologies in the financial services (FS) sector and their impact on market ...
Credit Suisse Pulled Into Geneva Fight Over Lost Client Cash
March 2nd, 2016
Russians name bank as a potential target, according to lawyer Ex-manager accused in Geneva of defrauding banks’ clients Credit Suisse Group AG has been dragged into a second criminal complaint brought by two Russian clients who claim that a ...
Citi Launches Total Touch ADR X-WiNG
February 25th, 2016
Citi has launched Total Touch ADR X-WiNG, a liquidity providing execution platform that optimizes investor’s access to liquidity in both EMEA and the U.S. American Depositary Receipt (ADR) market. Combining the value-added attributions of high-touch trading, with the efficiency ...
Google Grilling: Search Giant Faces More Questions Over Tax Deal With UK Government
February 11th, 2016
Earlier this month Alphabet, the parent company of Google, granted Google CEO Sundar Pichai almost $200 million in stock options. That sum, generous by any measure, is greater than the $185 million Google agreed to pay a week earlier to settle British tax issues covering the past ...
Tullett Prebon and Synrex combine to bring liquidity and innovation to the Real Estate market
February 10th, 2016
Tullett Prebon, one of the world’s leading interdealer brokers and Synrex Ltd, a business bringing innovation to the real estate asset class, today announced the establishment of a joint venture to develop a new institutional all-to-all real estate trading ...
Why We Won’t Have a “Lehman Moment” in the 2016 Crash
February 5th, 2016
What the central banks cannot do is create productive places to invest the credit they’ve generated in such excess, or force qualified borrowers to swallow more unproductive debt. One way to lose a war is to focus on preparing ...
5 Ways To Turn Facebook Messenger Into Your Best Customer Service Tool
February 1st, 2016
A lot of your customers are on Facebook—and soon all of them will have the opportunity to message your business. According to Nielsen the Facebook messenger app was the fastest growing app of 2015. Your customers are on Facebook ...
Barclays Announces Initiatives in the Investment Bank
January 25th, 2016
Barclays PLC (“Barclays”) has announced several initiatives within its Investment Bank which build on its existing strategy. The Investment Bank will continue to focus on its two home markets in the UK and US and to develop its global ...
PwC launches new global technology team to harness Bitcoin technology
January 22nd, 2016
PwC has recruited 15 leading technology specialists to exploit and commercialise blockchain, the technology that powers the crypto-currency, Bitcoin. The new Blockchain team will be based in PwC’s Belfast office and is expected to grow to over 40 digital ...
Saxo Bank launches the first large-scale, truly digital, investment solution for retail investors in partnership with BlackRock
January 20th, 2016
SaxoSelect investment portfolios consisting of BlackRock exchange traded funds (ETFs) to launch in selected European markets, starting with Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Netherlands and Sweden in Q1 2016. Saxo Bank today announces the launch of the first large-scale, truly digital, ...
