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The UAE is offering India free oil
February 16th, 2016
UAE will stock 6 million barrels of oil in one compartment of Mangalore facility. Of this, 0.5 million tonnes will belong to India and it can use it in emergencies. In a first of its kind deal, UAE’s national ...
Last Wave on Libor: CFTC Likely to Charge Multiple Banks for Rate Rigging
February 16th, 2016
Citigroup, HSBC are among firms targeted by regulators, according to people close to the probe American banks have so far escaped the billions of dollars in fines that have been levied by U.S. and British regulators leading a global ...
New tax scandal as Ikea ‘avoids paying £775 Million in taxes using onshore havens’
February 15th, 2016
FURNITURE giant Ikea has been accused of underpaying a staggering €1 billion (£773 million) in taxes between 2009 and 2014. The Swedish firm is under scrutiny for using “onshore European tax havens”, according to a members of the European ...
ESMA publishes first supervisory convergence work programme
February 12th, 2016
ESMA publishes first supervisory convergence work programme The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its first Supervisory Convergence Work Programme 2016 (SCWP), which details the activities and tasks it will carry out to promote sound, efficient and ...
City grandee Rich Ricci joins fintech revolution at freemarketFX
February 11th, 2016
Rich Ricci, formerly CEO of Barclays Corporate and Investment Banking, is the latest in a growing list of financial services grandees to lend their business heft to a disruptive technology startup, joining currency exchange freemarketFX as chairman. Launched by ...
Japan’s Fsa Warns Against Unauthorized Optionrally, Two Other Binary Options Brokers
February 11th, 2016
Japan’s financial watchdog, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), included on Wednesday into its alert list binary options brokers LFG Investment, trading as OptionRally, and WorldOptionner Management Office and BizOption Management Office, trading as Bizoption and Worldoption, respectively. The three companies have been providing financial services in the ...
Wall Street Trading Desks Upgradng Technology – And The Sales Traders That Use It
February 10th, 2016
A new breed of Wall Street sales trader is using increasingly sophisticated technology to preserve fixed income trading revenues and profits in a market defined by capital requirements and other regulations that squeeze margins, depressed trading volumes and historically ...
Gold hits new 3-month high on global economy concerns
February 8th, 2016
Gold hit three-month highs on Monday, extending its biggest weekly rise since July 2013 as sliding stock markets, global growth uncertainty and a softer dollar prompted investors to seek safety in hard assets. Spot gold reached a peak of ...
Oil Trades Near $31 After Saudi-Venezuela Talks as Bets Increase
February 8th, 2016
Al-Naimi speaks with counterpart about other producer meetings Vitol CEO says crude to stay between $40 and $60 for 10 years Oil traded near $31 a barrel after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela met to discuss cooperating to stabilize the ...
CySec announced that a new firm obtained the CIF license
February 8th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the financial regulatory authority of Cyprus, has announced that “G.S.E Golden Sky Europe Ltd“ has successfully obtained the CySec licence for CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms). The firm is now authorised to operate legally under the supervision ...
