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UN report: Social network payments now reach nearly US $3 trillion in China
April 24th, 2017
Payments on messaging and e-commerce platforms set to increase China’s GDP by $236 billion by 2025, unlocking new economic opportunities for people and small businesses A new UN study reveals that Alipay and WeChat Pay enabled US$2.9 trillion in ...
Law firm in Australia launches patented legal technology
April 21st, 2017
Australia’s leading independent law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, has received a patent from IP Australia for a new optical character recognition (OCR) analysis technology. The technology identifies documents with low quality searchable text and will be used as part ...
Trading firm Virtu Financial to buy KCG for about $1.4 billion
April 21st, 2017
Virtu Financial Inc (VIRT.O) said it would buy rival KCG Holdings Inc (KCG.N) in a $1.4 billion deal that brings together two major U.S. electronic trading and market-making firms. The deal comes at a difficult time for high-frequency trading ...
Oil prices set for biggest weekly drop in a month
April 21st, 2017
Oil traded steady on Friday, though it was set for its biggest weekly drop in about a month over doubts that an OPEC-led production cut will restore balance to a market that has been dogged by oversupply for more ...
Bloomberg and Bats Europe combine for MiFID II reporting
April 20th, 2017
Bloomberg and Bats Europe have today announced they plan to provide Bloomberg customers with the ability to use their respective Approved Publication Arrangements (APA) to fulfil MiFID II transparency reporting requirements. Under MiFID II, market participants are facing a ...
Why We’re Ungovernable: Europe Gets Its Doomsday Scenario
April 20th, 2017
The rise of French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has made a lot of people nervous since, among many other things, she’s in favor of leaving the eurozone, which would pretty much end the common currency. But since ...
Accounting firms employ robots in their offices
April 20th, 2017
Robotic software sweeping large accounting firms and clients While it doesn’t shoot lasers or clean her Minneapolis office Roomba-style, her “bot” can do some of her digital data dirty work so she doesn’t have to. “I don’t want to ...
International law firm to launch its third international office in Madrid
April 20th, 2017
International law firm Pinsent Masons has announced plans to launch its third international office in less than 12 months, with a Madrid presence expected to open in May. The firm has brought together a team of six partners to ...
Eight new BNP Paribas ETCs from metals and energy sectors launched on Xetra
April 20th, 2017
ETCs provide access to Rogers International Commodity Enhanced Indices (RICI) commodity index family Eight new exchange traded commodities (ETCs) issued by BNP Paribas Arbitrage Issuance B.V. are tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since yesterday. The ETCs give investors ...
JPMorgan accused of fraud over tech company sale
April 19th, 2017
JPMorgan steered a technology company client to sell itself to BlackBerry at a knockdown price because it wanted to win lucrative future investment banking business from the smartphone pioneer, according to an investor lawsuit. The lawsuit filed on behalf ...
