CORPORATE SERVICE PROVIDER
May 19th, 2017
CORPORATE SERVICE PROVIDER Overview: Trade Finance is in our DNA. For more than 10 years, XTrade has helped global traders with access to the world’s largest and most liquid market. By offering the most innovative trading tools, hiring the ...
Standard Chartered Bank Announces Intent to Join Thomson Reuters KYC Managed Service for Africa
May 17th, 2017
Standard Chartered Bank today announced its intent to join Thomson Reuters Org ID regional managed service solution for Know Your Customer (KYC) due diligence in South Africa. Standard Chartered Bank has made the decision to join the African KYC ...
Goldman Sachs Sees Big Potential for Fintech in Brazil
May 16th, 2017
Brazil is experiencing a wave of growth in financial technology that will most likely eat into the market share of the country’s huge and long untouchable banks, a new report from Goldman Sachs says. Entitled “Fintech Brazil’s Moment,” the ...
Singapore FinTech Festival to return this year
May 16th, 2017
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced the second edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival, to be held in Singapore from 13 to 17 November 2017. Organised in partnership with The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) and ...
How to protect yourself and your business from the massive ransomware attack
May 15th, 2017
An aggressive new strain of ransomware is shutting down Windows operating computers all over the world. Although the virus known as WannaCry has already infected over 75,000 PCs in 99 countries, it is actually not that hard to secure ...
Update on Brexit
May 14th, 2017
This article looks at the background to Brexit negotiations and concludes that Britain is negotiating from a position of strength, while the EU is increasingly in a position of financial difficulty. Not only will the European Commission be forced ...
Australia will recognize Bitcoin as money and protect Bitcoin businesses, No Taxes
May 12th, 2017
Bitcoin will be treated as money in Australia by July 1, 2017, and will be exempt from goods and services tax (GST). Bitcoin traders and investors will not be taxed for purchasing and selling Bitcoin through regulated exchanges and ...
Crude’s rally took the price of a barrel back above $48 in New York
May 12th, 2017
Retailers slump on Macy’s results as bonds, gold advance Crude sustains momentum in wake of U.S. stockpile data U.S. stocks fell from records, though losses eased in afternoon trading as crude’s rally took the price of a barrel back ...
INTL FCStone Inc. reports Fiscal 2017 Second Quarter Financial Results
May 11th, 2017
INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ:INTL), a diversified global financial services organization providing execution, risk management and advisory services, market intelligence and clearing services across asset classes and markets around the world, announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2017 ...
Dollar hits eight-week highs vs. yen, kiwi tumbles
May 11th, 2017
The dollar edged lower after notching an eight week high against the yen on Thursday in Asian trade, while the New Zealand dollar tumbled after its central bank suggested a tightening was further out than markets had priced in. ...
