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BaFin and the SEC: An international comparison of supervisory practice
November 3rd, 2015
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) is often compared to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the media and by the public. The SEC is frequently perceived as the more powerful authority, in ...
Visa Inc. to Acquire Visa Europe
November 2nd, 2015
Further to the released published today: Visa To Keep UK Presence After BoE Steps In, the company has just announced a definitive agreement for Visa Inc. to acquire Visa Europe. Strategic Acquisition to Create One Global Company That Further Extends Visa’s ...
Mario Draghi Interview: We must propose a way forward to Europeans
November 2nd, 2015
Interview with Il Sole 24 Ore Interview with Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, conducted by Alessandro Merli and Roberto Napoletano, published on 31 October 2015 President Draghi, in Malta last week, you stressed the downside risks for both ...
HP is now two companies. How did it get here?
November 2nd, 2015
HP’s split follows more than a decade of scandals and missteps If Hollywood wanted a script about the inexorable decline of a corporate icon, it might look to Hewlett-Packard for inspiration. Once one of Silicon Valley’s most respected companies, ...
Saudi Arabia reacts sharply to S&P downgrade of kingdom’s debt rating
November 2nd, 2015
Saudi Arabia yesterday reacted sharply to Standard & Poor’s move to downgrade the kingdom’s debt rating. The debt rating agency said it would downgrade Saudi Arabia’s long-term rating a notch, from AA- to A+ with “a negative outlook”, citing ...
How Payment Giants Are Embracing Bitcoin and Blockchain Tech
October 30th, 2015
MasterCard‘s participation in Digital Currency Group’s undisclosed funding round sent ripples of excitement across the crypto-sphere earlier this week. While this is MasterCard’s first crypto-related investment, the multinational corporation is not the first mainstream finance company to dip its toe in ...
Report on Financial Structures details structural changes in the euro area financial sector
October 30th, 2015
New ECB report covers banks as well as other financial intermediaries Banks, insurance companies and pension funds in largest euro area economies exposed primarily domestically Consolidation and rationalisation in the banking sector continued in 2014, and the median Tier ...
BOJ holds rates despite overseas headwinds, stagnant inflation
October 30th, 2015
The Bank of Japan held off on expanding its massive stimulus program on Friday, preferring to preserve its dwindling policy options in the hope that the economy can overcome the drag from China’s slowdown without additional monetary support. But ...
All Hail Our New Lord and Master, the Stock Market
October 29th, 2015
We’re all minions now of the stock market. The all-powerful Federal Reserve is a mere minion of the stock market, a kitten absurdly claiming in public to be a tiger. If the market threatens to drop, the Fed quickly ...
Japan’s Biggest Brokerages Tumble After Posting Lower Earnings
October 29th, 2015
Nomura falls the most in two months as profit drops 12% Global market turmoil also dented trading income at Daiwa Nomura Holdings Inc. and Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Japan’s biggest brokerages, fell the most in at least in a ...
