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Former HSBC Executive Found Guilty of Fraud in $3.5 Billion Currency Trade
October 24th, 2017
A U.S. jury on Monday found former HSBC executive Mark Johnson guilty of defrauding Cairn Energy (CRNZF, +0.00%) in a $3.5 billion currency trade in 2011. U.S. prosecutors have said that Mark Johnson, formerly head of HSBC’s global foreign ...
Web Shield & iSignthis to deliver unified legal entity & UBO KYC
October 19th, 2017
Highlights: Web Shield’s Know Your Customer Corporate/Business (KYCB) InvestiGate Platform to feature Know Your Customer (KYC) for individual UBO’s, PSC’s and Directors iSignthis Service to be enabled for all Web Shield customers globally from Nov 2017 Web shield will ...
Former Fed Chief Bernanke described bitcoin as a “mostly speculative venture”
October 17th, 2017
Bernanke Thinks Bitcoin Will Fail (But He Likes Blockchain) What does the former head of the Federal Reserve think of a digital currency that operates outside the control of central banks? The answer, unsurprisingly, is not much. “Bitcoin is ...
BNP Paribas and EY explore private blockchain
October 17th, 2017
BNP PARIBAS ALM Treasury and EY today announced they successfully completed a pilot demonstrating the feasibility of using blockchain to optimize the global internal treasury operations of the bank. The ALM Treasury department, which manages the bank’s internal treasury, ...
European shares brush off Catalan crisis with another weekly gain
October 9th, 2017
European shares rose for the fourth consecutive week on Friday as confidence over the region’s economic recovery outweighed worries over the Catalonia crisis, whose impact remained confined to Spanish equities. While Spain’s IBEX .IBEX ended a tumultuous week down 1.9 percent ...
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 ...
Bitcoin could hit $6,000 by year-end, experts said
October 4th, 2017
Bitcoin could rally nearly 40 percent to hit $6,000 before the end of the year but investors should brace for more volatility, according to industry experts. The cryptocurrency was trading around $4,333 on Tuesday. The third quarter has been ...
Accountancy giant Deloitte hit by cyber attack
September 26th, 2017
One of the world’s biggest accountancy firms had been targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack that has compromised the confidential emails of some of its blue-chip clients. Deloitte is one of the ‘big four’ global accountancy firms and one ...
Yen drops on 2 trillion yen stimulus report; The kiwi dollar and euro both slid
September 25th, 2017
The yen declined on speculation Japan’s prime minister will press for a stimulus package alongside his expected call for a snap election — sending the nation’s stocks higher. The kiwi and euro both slid as ballot results foreshadowed potentially ...
Who Manipulates Gold Prices and Why
September 21st, 2017
While major international events, like nuclear tests carried out by North Korea, affect gold prices and result in a situation when investors prefer to invest their money in the noble metal, economic expert Dimitri Speck believes that there are ...
