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Commodities broker Marex Spectron announced record profits
March 31st, 2017
Marex Spectron, the global commodities broker, today announced record profits before tax of $27.0 million for the year through to 31 December 2016, a 53% increase on the $17.6 million reported in 2015, and maintains the firm’s positive earnings ...
Star investor Bill Gross reaches $81 million settlement with Pimco
March 29th, 2017
Legendary investor Bill Gross has reached an $81 million truce with Pimco, ending a war with the firm he founded and built into the world’s biggest bond manager. Gross and Pimco announced on Monday they reached an “amicable settlement” ...
LCH SA offering repo clearing on German debt
March 28th, 2017
Extended service offers greater choice and more netting opportunities for RepoClear’s members Members of LCH SA can offset trades on German debt with eligible European repo transactions cleared at LCH SA, through T2S Settlement available via Clearstream Frankfurt, Euroclear ...
Two Trends That Will Force The Fed To Start Buying Stocks
March 27th, 2017
While the Japanese and Swiss central banks have turned themselves into hedge funds by loading up on equities, the US Fed has stuck to supporting the stock market indirectly, by buying bonds. It’s worked, obviously, with all major US ...
ASIC cancels the AFS license of Financial Services firms
March 25th, 2017
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licences of Rebate Financial Services Pty Ltd and Capstone Capital Pty Ltd for failing to comply with a number of their key obligations as financial services licensees. In particular, ASIC has ...
FSMA Belgium reports unauthorised Forex and Binary Options providers
March 24th, 2017
The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), a financial regulator of Belgium, has issued an announcement to warn investors and public against the activities of various providers of/intermediaries in binary options and Forex products, “recovery rooms” and “boiler rooms”, ...
The Russian “Laundromat” exposed; how the complex money laundering scheme worked
March 23rd, 2017
Three years after the “Laundromat” was exposed as a criminal financial vehicle to move vast sums of money out of Russia, journalists now know how the complex scheme worked – including who ended up with the $20.8 billion and ...
ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from Barclays entities
March 23rd, 2017
Yesterday, ASIC accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from three Barclays foreign financial service providers (FFSPs): Barclays Capital Inc. (BCI) domiciled in the United States of America Barclays Capital Asia Limited (BCAL) domiciled in Hong Kong, and Barclays Capital Securities Limited ...
Can state spending ever be cut?
March 22nd, 2017
President Trump was elected on several promises, including one that he would fund tax cuts by cutting public spending. Cynics might note that his first action was to increase spending on the military by $54bn, the equivalent of six ...
Bats Europe launches two new Indices designed to measure impact of Brexit on UK companies
March 22nd, 2017
Bats Partners with FactSet to Provide Brexit 50/50 Indices Ahead of Triggering of Article 50 Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. company and the region’s largest equities exchange operator, today announced it has launched the Bats Brexit 50/50 Indices, ...
