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Ghana’s First Hedge Fund Planned by Ex-Exchange Regulator
June 26th, 2014
Tikowrie Capital Ltd., a Ghanaian money manager started by a former regulator, plans to establish the West African country’s first hedge fund. “The appetite of investors in the country has grown over the years,” Tikowrie Executive Director Maxwell Gidi ...
FINRA Expels Success Trade Securities and Bars CEO Fuad Ahmed for Ponzi Scheme
June 26th, 2014
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has announced that a FINRA hearing panel has expelled Washington, D.C.-based Success Trade Securities, Inc. from membership and barred its CEO and President, Fuad Ahmed, for the fraudulent sale of promissory notes and ...
Spain To Slash Income Tax Rates
June 26th, 2014
The Spanish Cabinet on June 20, 2014, approved reductions to corporate and individual income tax rates to boost investment and employment. Under the changes, the corporate tax rate will fall from 30 percent to 28 percent in 2015, and ...
US approves some exports of light oil
June 26th, 2014
As the oil industry pushes the Obama administration to lift a longstanding ban on the export of crude oil, the Commerce Department has granted two Texas companies permits to export a light, processed form of oil, according to people ...
How High a Deductible Should Your Company Take?
June 25th, 2014
Deciding the right level of a company’s insurance deductibles depends largely on the organization’s risk appetite and its financial strength — definitely territory for the CFO. Risk appetite and financial strength must be considered when companies pit which risks ...
OptionsCity Supports Transition of NYSE Liffe US Products to ICE
June 25th, 2014
OptionsCity Software, a global provider of electronic trading solutions for professional futures and options traders, announced that the firm is offering customers immediate access to Liffe US products following their transition to Intercontinental Exchange’s futures exchanges and clearing houses. ...
Don’t Shortchange Short Sellers
June 24th, 2014
More finance journalists and industry people should go to academic conferences. There is a lot of good stuff to learn. Case in point: I recently attended the Western Finance Association’s annual meeting in Monterey, California, and saw several papers ...
Hedge-Fund Hack Part of Bigger Siege: Cyber-Experts
June 23rd, 2014
The attack on a U.S. hedge fund’s network, which a cybersecurity contractor said last week disrupted the firm’s high-speed trading and stole its data, is but one among many. That is the assessment of more than a half-dozen computer ...
When the World Cup Is On, Stock Markets Go Quiet
June 23rd, 2014
With the World Cup well underway, it’s no surprise that workers everywhere—even financial types—are paying more attention to the games than to their jobs. One way of measuring the global epidemic of distraction is to look at plunges in ...
Emerging Markets: What Has Changed
June 20th, 2014
1) Russia continues to liberalize the currency and move to an inflation targeting regime 2) Political risk is rising in Poland 3) South Africa came under renewed rating downgrade pressures 4) The Chinese yuan’s one-way depreciating bet appears to ...
