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EBRD joins SWIFT’s Know Your Customer Registry
May 9th, 2017
In a move to facilitate global and local financial flows and ensure their transparency, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has signed up to use SWIFT’s Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry and is encouraging partner banks in countries ...
Business cycles are credit cycles
May 7th, 2017
This article gets to the heart of why central banks’ monetary policy will never succeed. The fundamental error is to regard economic cycles as originating in the private sector, when they are the consequence of fluctuations in credit. It ...
Asian Stocks Decline as Iron Ore Futures Tumble: Markets Wrap
May 4th, 2017
FOMC leaves rates unchanged, sees inflation near target Aussie dollar erases loss as Lowe speaks in Brisbane Australian and Chinese stocks fell further on Thursday after metals prices declined, while South Korean shares rallied and the dollar held gains ...
Interview with Eurex Clearing AG CEO, Eric Müller
May 3rd, 2017
“We work on delivering attractive and efficient solutions:” Interview with Eurex Clearing AG CEO, Eric Müller The IOMA conference brings together the leaders of the clearing and derivatives industry each year, to debate the themes impacting the sector. As ...
Germany’s booming economy shifts into overdrive
May 3rd, 2017
Europe’s largest economy, Germany, is seeing trade surge with a sharp increase in demand for goods ‘Made in Germany’ around the world. The rise comes despite protectionist rhetoric from Washington. In the first two months of 2017, overall German ...
End of empire
April 30th, 2017
“Already, China dominates world trade. Her own economy is already significantly larger than that of the US on the PPP estimates. While being the largest consumer of raw materials, China also exports more finished goods by value than any ...
Euro Jumps on French Result; China Selloff Resumes: Markets Wrap
April 24th, 2017
Investors bet on Macron victory after first round of voting Yen slides, U.S. futures advance while Shanghai shares slump A relief rally amid speculation that pro-growth centrist Emmanuel Macron will become France’s next president was offset by a selloff in ...
Clearstream Monthly report: ECB’s QE continues to put pressure on securities financing industry
April 19th, 2017
The European Central Bank’s (ECB) decision to stick to its bond buying program despite strong EU-wide economic growth has damped hopes in the market that interest rates will rise any time soon. This loose monetary policy can be felt ...
ESMA to cooperate with New Zealand’s regulators on CCPs
April 19th, 2017
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has established a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) with Reserve Bank of New Zealand and Financial Markets Authority of New Zealand. The MoU establishes cooperation arrangements, ...
Ever wonder where the money in your pocket come from?
April 13th, 2017
What is seigniorage? This exotic word is about something very simple: the banknotes in your pocket. Have you ever wondered where they come from? Euro banknotes are developed by the ECB, manufactured at a printing works and then stored ...
