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Volante Technologies signs strategic partnership with Access to Arabia
June 8th, 2015
Designed to address the migration of Jordanian payments to new ISO 20022-based message standards Volante Technologies, a global leader in the provision of financial message and data integration, validation and processing software, today announced a strategic partnership with Access ...
Possible $500,000 Bitcoin Cloud Mining Ponzi Scheme Uncovered
June 8th, 2015
Roughly nine months ago, Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen made a rather interesting comment on Reddit in which he claimed, “I suspect many will turn out to be Ponzi schemes.” There have been a few cloud mining scams uncovered ...
The tax function must transform to become a strategic business asset
June 8th, 2015
Never before has tax been more important to governments, taxpayers and other stakeholders. Increased global compliance requirements, together with a greater need for robust controls to manage tax risks and a desire to use data analytics to assist in ...
Japan’s revised Q1 growth blows past expectations
June 8th, 2015
Japan posted stronger-than-expected growth in the first quarter as a pickup in capital spending drove the world’s number three economy, but some economists warn that the recovery could be short-lived. The 1.0% expansion in January-March—or 3.9% on annualised basis—was ...
ICAP Said to Consider Circuit Breakers for Treasury Bond Trading
June 5th, 2015
ICAP Plc, which runs one of the world’s biggest electronic Treasury trading platforms, is considering circuit breakers as a safeguard against extreme volatility, according to a person familiar with the matter. ICAP has discussed with clients the possibility of ...
IMF Urges Fed to Wait on Interest Rates Until 2016
June 5th, 2015
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday slashed its forecasts for U.S. economic growth, calling for the Federal Reserve to hold off its first rate increase in nearly a decade until 2016. In its annual review of the U.S. economy, ...
Euro off highs, China shares swing to new peak
June 5th, 2015
Asian shares were mostly lower on Friday while bonds snapped a vicious losing streak and the euro retreated as investors braced for U.S. jobs data and another day of drama over Greece. The main exception was China where stocks ...
IRS Responding To Return Fraud Concerns
June 4th, 2015
The US Internal Revenue Service has made improvements to its systems to detect and prevent identity theft-related tax return fraud, but must do a lot more to eliminate the problem, the Treasury watchdog has said. The Treasury Inspector General ...
US economy expanded between April and May says Federal Reserve
June 4th, 2015
The US Federal Reserve said the economy grew between April and May in its latest assessment of the economy, rebounding from a contraction in the first quarter. In the so-called Beige book, it said surveys from across the country ...
Top news of the day, June 02
June 2nd, 2015
Latest news: 1. European leaders and the head of the International Monetary Fund agreed to step up the intensity of talks over Greece’s fate after an extraordinary meeting in Berlin about ways to avert a default. The top-level huddle ...
