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These are the fastest growing private companies in Europe
February 22nd, 2017
Swedish watches and accessories retailer Daniel Wellington was the fastest growing entrepreneurial company in Europe over the past three years, topping Inc. Magazine’s third annual Inc. 5000 Europe list. The Inc. 5000 Europe represents the only comprehensive look at ...
STOXX Expands Fixed Income Offering
February 22nd, 2017
STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today introduced the EURO STOXX 50 Corporate Bond Sector, Rating and Maturity Bucket Sub-Indices. They expand the EURO STOXX ...
European v US investment banks: Tectonic shifts
February 22nd, 2017
Much of the sector is in dire straits – partly because of previous efforts to compete globally. As investment banks, the Europeans are not even winning on their home turf. JPMorgan’s investment-banking revenue market share for Europe, Middle East ...
Fidessa appoints Chris Monnery to head its Electronic Execution business in the US
February 22nd, 2017
Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced a key new appointment for its sell-side business: Chris Monnery is now the US Head of Product Marketing for Electronic Execution. He is based in New York and reports to David Polen, ...
U.S. oil holds near seven-week high; OPEC upbeat on output curbs
February 22nd, 2017
Oil prices held near multi-week highs on Wednesday after OPEC signaled optimism over its deal with other producers to curb output to clear a glut that has weighed on markets since 2014. The U.S. West Texas Intermediate April crude ...
China leads FinTech industry in Asia
February 21st, 2017
China is home to six of the world’s 22 venture capital-backed financial technology ‘unicorns’ — start-ups valued from US$1 billion Mega deals in China drove the total amount of funding raised by venture capital-backed financial technology start-ups in Asia to ...
CLS and TriOptima compress USD1 trillion
February 21st, 2017
triReduce CLS FX Forward Compression Service has compressed more than USD1 trillion since launch The last two cycles have reduced more than USD200 billion The second phase of service enables both compression and offsetting of trades in the same ...
HSBC announced 2016 Results; $1.0bn share buy-back
February 21st, 2017
Strategic execution Completed a $2.5bn share buy-back following the sale of the Brazil business Further reduced our risk-weighted assets (‘RWAs’) during 2016 by $143bn as a result of extensive management actions, including the sale of operations in Brazil Generated ...
Asia stocks consolidate recent gains; China shines
February 21st, 2017
Asian stocks held ground on Tuesday though Chinese equities surged to a fresh 2-1/2 month high as domestic funds piled into financial counters on expectations the world’s second biggest economy may have turned a corner. MSCI’s broadest index of ...
Oil prices creep higher, but overshadowed by U.S. supply
February 20th, 2017
Crude futures traded slightly higher on Monday, but the market struggled on signs that the U.S. oil production is on a steady uptrend, which could potentially thwart ongoing efforts by multiple oil producers to curb global supply. On the ...
