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Financial stability: new Commission rules on central clearing for interest rate derivatives
August 10th, 2015
The European Commission has today adopted new rules that make it mandatory for certain over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate derivative contracts to be cleared through central counterparties. Mandatory central clearing is a vital part of the response to the financial ...
Deutsche Bank Fires Two Senior Trading Executives
August 6th, 2015
Ben Solomon and Ashish Jain are no longer with the bank Deutsche Bank AG has fired two senior trading executives for alleged lax supervision of a pair of more junior employees whose communications with clients allegedly violated the lender’s policies, a ...
ASIC bans former GTL Tradeup Pty Ltd director
July 23rd, 2015
Mr Andrew Jeffers, a Certified Practising Accountant from Sydney, NSW, has been banned from providing any financial services until 21 May 2018. Mr Jeffers was banned after ASIC found that GTL Trade Up Pty Ltd (In Liquidation)(GTL), a company of ...
European Court of Justice Official Proposes Bitcoin VAT Exemption
July 17th, 2015
Bitcoin operations should be exempt from Value Added Tax (VAT), the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice said in an opinion document published today. Citing existing exemptions for currency and money transactions in Europe’s VAT Directive, Attorney ...
Boutique Asset Managers Focus on European Equities Thanks to Regulations
July 15th, 2015
More regulations are driving smaller niche institutional investors to the European equity markets That’s according to the latest research from Tabb Group, an equity market consultancy, who reported that boutique asset managers are increasingly losing their home country bias ...
Euro’s Drop Muted as Currency Builds Resistance to Greek Turmoil
July 13th, 2015
The euro seems to be building up some resistance to Greek turmoil, even as it opened weaker for a third straight Monday amid the latest debt impasse. Today’s drop at the start of Asian trading was smaller than its ...
Greece debt crisis: Tsipras appeals for European unity
July 8th, 2015
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called for the European Union to avoid division, as indebted Greece struggles to stay in the euro. In a sometimes stormy debate in the European Parliament, he said: “Let’s not let Europe be ...
Rift Emerges as Europe Gears Up for New Talks on Greece Bailout
July 7th, 2015
Germany continued to maintain a hard line with Athens on Monday, just a day after Greek voters decisively rejected a bailout deal from its creditors. But some European countries showed a willingness to soften the push for austerity that ...
Varoufakis Resigns – Our NO is a majestic, big YES to a democratic, rational Europe!
July 6th, 2015
On the 25th of January, dignity was restored to the people of Greece. In the five months that intervened since then, we became the first government that dared raise its voice, speaking on behalf of the people, saying NO to ...
Greece crisis: Eurozone rules out talks until after referendum
July 2nd, 2015
Eurozone finance ministers have ruled out any further talks on a fresh bailout for Greece until the country holds its referendum on Sunday. Greeks will be asked to accept or reject proposals made by creditors last week, with Prime Minister Alexis ...