Search Results for: Global banks
China’s new bitcoin rules call for identity check
March 17th, 2017
China’s central bank is moving to regulate its domestic bitcoin industry, circulating new guidelines that, if enacted, would require exchanges to identify clients and adhere to banking regulations. Recent scrutiny by the central bank has already led exchanges to ...
ANZ, Westpac admit breaches in forex trading
March 16th, 2017
ANZ and Westpac have followed rivals and yielded to the corporate regulator’s investigation into banks’ foreign exchange businesses, agreeing to oversight and changes after traders shared confidential client information and traded to benefit themselves. A week after the banks’ ...
PayPal Invests in $48 Million Series C of Korean Fintech Payments Startup
March 15th, 2017
South Korean Fintech firm Viva Republica has closed a KRW 55 billion ($48 million) Series C round of funding which saw participation from the likes of PayPal and other significant backers. Viva Republic is the developer opf Toss, a now-popular peer-to-peer ...
Eurobank organizes the 2nd regional FinTech Competition “Beyond Hackathon”
March 14th, 2017
Eurobank organizes the 2nd regional FinTech Competition “Beyond Hackathon” which is going to take place, on 17 – 19 of March 2017, at Eurobank premises at Nea Ionia (building H) in cooperation with the business partners, Found.ation & The ...
Asian Stocks Gain, Oil Slides Before Fed and BOJ: Markets Wrap
March 13th, 2017
U.S. jobs data set stage before central bank policy decisions Crude drops for sixth straight day amid jump in U.S. supplies Asian equities rose and the dollar weakened as a positive U.S. jobs report helped investors position for a ...
The fateful date
March 12th, 2017
Caesar: What sayest thou to me now? Speak once again. Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass. This famous advice, according to Shakespeare, was ignored with fatal consequences for Julius ...
Which Gulf country’s banking sector is the top in assets volumes
March 9th, 2017
The UAE’s banking sector came first on the list of the banking sectors in terms of asset volume in the GCC region, with a total value of about US$711 billion, over (AED2. 61 trillion) in 2016, according to statistics ...
Interview: SIG Susquehanna on European Volatility & VSTOXX®
March 7th, 2017
Interview with Cathal Hardiman, Derivatives Sales Trader at SIG Susquehanna Set up in 2005, Susquehanna’s European options desk traded 11% of the total volume traded in listed (equity & index) options in Europe. Following the increasing dislocation between the ...
China unseats eurozone as world’s largest banking system
March 6th, 2017
New analysis by the Financial Times shows China’s banking system has overtaken the eurozone to become the world’s biggest by assets. The status reflects the country’s increasing global influence and its reliance on growth driven by debt. According to ...
London Stock Exchange reports total income up 17% to £1,657.1 million for 2016
March 4th, 2017
Unless stated otherwise, all figures in the highlights below refer to continuing operations1 for 12 months to 31 December 2016 and comparisons with the prior 12 month period on the same basis. Continued execution against strategic objectives and investment ...
