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ISXPay: Further Australian card acquiring/processing contracts executed
October 11th, 2017
Highlights ISXPay gains further traction in Australia with customer addition Card Transactions in excess of $52m per annum to be processed, cleared and settled to Merchants bank accounts by ISXPay Average Net Margin in excess of 77 basis points ...
The upcoming increase in interest rates
October 6th, 2017
Last week, both Janet Yellen of the Fed and Mark Carney of the Bank of England prepared financial markets for interest rate increases. The working assumption should be that this was coordinated, and that both the ECB and ...
Europe Stocks Ready to Outpace Wall Street
September 29th, 2017
Euro-area stocks may be ready to get back at Wall Street. The rallying euro damped gains in the region’s stocks, which underperformed this year versus the S&P 500 index despite a brisk economic recovery and a rebound in earnings. ...
Canadian Securities Regulators Announce Ban On Binary Options
September 29th, 2017
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announce the implementation of Multilateral Instrument 91-102 Prohibition of Binary Options, which makes it illegal to advertise, offer, sell or otherwise trade binary options shorter than 30 days with any individual. “Binary options are ...
The dollar’s strength pressured many emerging market currencies
September 28th, 2017
The dollar and U.S. bond yields rose on Thursday after President Donald Trump proposed the biggest U.S. tax overhaul in three decades and as strong U.S. economic data added to the case for a rate hike by the Federal ...
Early bitcoin investor Palihapitiya declares ‘nobody can stop it’
September 27th, 2017
Investors who followed Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya into the early stages of two investments he advocated would have made an awful lot of money. Palihapitiya was early in both Facebook, the ubiquitous social network, and bitcoin, the disruptive crypotcurrency ...
The forthcoming global crisis
September 22nd, 2017
The global economy is now in an expansionary phase, with bank credit being increasingly available for non-financial borrowers. This is always the prelude to the crisis phase of the credit cycle. Most national economies are directly boosted by China, ...
U.S. Stocks at Records, dollar fell, euro climbed
September 20th, 2017
Major U.S equity benchmarks padded all-time highs, the dollar fell and Treasuries edged lower after Donald Trump gave a speech to the United Nations and as the Federal Reserve began a two-day meeting. The S&P 500 Index climbed for ...
PwC UK reported record revenue of £3.60bn for the year ended 30 June 2017
September 18th, 2017
PwC UK, the professional services firm, has reported record revenue of £3.60bn for the year ended 30 June 2017, up 5% from £3.44bn last year, as the firm continues to invest in people, technology and its regional presence in ...
China is starting to roll back measures meant to prop up its currency
September 11th, 2017
China is starting to roll back measures meant to prop up its currency after a recent surge in the yuan erased all of last year’s losses. Starting today, the central bank has scrapped a reserve requirement rule on trades ...
