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EU Demands Complete Capitulation From Tsipras
July 13th, 2015
European leaders gave Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras a straightforward choice: ditch his principles or quit the euro. Tsipras was presented with a laundry list of unfinished business from Greece’s previous bailouts at an emergency summit that stretched in ...
Euro’s Drop Muted as Currency Builds Resistance to Greek Turmoil
July 13th, 2015
The euro seems to be building up some resistance to Greek turmoil, even as it opened weaker for a third straight Monday amid the latest debt impasse. Today’s drop at the start of Asian trading was smaller than its ...
Westpac VC invests in Bitcoin player Coinbase
July 8th, 2015
In a deal that will put Westpac Banking Corp in the box seat as cryptocurrencies develop, the bank’s venture capital fund, Reinventure Group, has invested in Coinbase, one of the world’s pre-eminent Bitcoin companies. In the first deal involving ...
Ten Imperatives for Internal Audit
July 8th, 2015
CBOK report from The IIA’s Research Foundation offers direction in a rapidly changing world Organizations are relying increasingly on internal audit to provide insight on operational, business, and strategic risks, especially as cybersecurity and other geopolitical challenges loom prominently. ...
Apple files P2P payments patent
July 8th, 2015
Apple has filed a patent which uses NFC and Bluetooth technology to enable person-to-person payments between iPhones or Apple Watches. The system would enable users to choose a card from their iPhone’s Wallet, enter the amount they want to pay and ...
Greece Given Until Sunday to Settle Debt Crisis or Face Disaster
July 8th, 2015
Frustrated European leaders gave Greece until Sunday to reach an agreement to save its collapsing economy from catastrophe after an emergency summit meeting here on Tuesday ended without the Athens government offering a substantive new proposal to resolve its debt ...
Noble Group Sets Review Panel to Check Accounting; PwC Hired
July 7th, 2015
Noble Group Ltd. appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to review how it values some of its assets after criticism of the Asian trading company’s accounting practices. PwC will “conduct an assurance review of Noble’s mark-to-market models, valuations, and governance framework,” Noble ...
Bitcoin: What you didn’t know but always wanted to ask
July 7th, 2015
A new technology for the banking world: “The internet of money” In 2008, an individual or group writing under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper that described a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that “would allow online ...
Euronet Worldwide Acquires XE, the World’s Trusted Currency Authority
July 7th, 2015
XE Brings Industry Leading Online Presence and Digital Expertise to Euronet’s Money Transfer Business Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:EEFT), a leading electronic payments provider, announced it has acquired XE, a global leader in digital foreign exchange information. XE has established ...
Rift Emerges as Europe Gears Up for New Talks on Greece Bailout
July 7th, 2015
Germany continued to maintain a hard line with Athens on Monday, just a day after Greek voters decisively rejected a bailout deal from its creditors. But some European countries showed a willingness to soften the push for austerity that ...
