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RBS’s Bank Restructuring unit faces legal claims from business who claim they were forced into liquidation
May 26th, 2016
Small businesses who claim they were forced into liquidation by the activities of Royal Bank of Scotland’s controversial Global Restructuring Group (GRG), have set up a dedicated whistleblowers Website to encourage bank staff to provide information on the unit. ...
$175 Million Penalty for Citibank
May 26th, 2016
CFTC Orders Citibank, N.A. and Japanese Affiliates to Pay $175 Million Penalty for Attempted Manipulation of Yen LIBOR and Euroyen TIBOR, and False Reporting of Euroyen TIBOR and U.S. Dollar LIBOR Citibank, N.A. Has Been Subject to Three CFTC ...
Commodities Brokers Marex Spectron reports $22.7M Operating Profit for 2015
May 25th, 2016
Marex Spectron Group Ltd (‘Marex Spectron’), the global commodities broker, has posted a record Operating Profit of $23 million for the year ended 31 December 2015, up from $15 million in 2014. EBITDA increased to $31 million from $25 ...
FCA Research into the issue of de-risking
May 25th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a press release to make publish a research regarding the issue of de-risking. Below is the announcement as published from FCA: The FCA, along with fellow agencies and authorities, has a long-standing programme ...
IPC Systems Now Providing Connectivity to Hotspot
May 25th, 2016
Hotspot, a leading institutional foreign exchange (FX) market owned and operated by Bats Global Markets, and IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, today announced that IPC ...
Deloitte trashed the hype around the $US180 billion fintech industry
May 24th, 2016
Deloitte just trashed the hype around the online lending industry. The accountancy and consultancy practice has done a deep dive on the online lending industry and its conclusions should make for devastating reading for anyone connected to the sector. ...
Lebanon declared that Tax data to be shared with foreign states in 2018
May 23rd, 2016
Automatic exchange of financial account information to be handled by specialized agency Lebanon has declared its commitment to the international standard of automatic exchange of financial account information, which aims to combat tax evasion and avoidance, according to a ...
The Eurozone is the greatest danger
May 23rd, 2016
World-wide, markets are horribly distorted, which spells danger not only to investors, but to businesses and their employees as well, because it is impossible to allocate capital efficiently in this financial environment. With markets everywhere disrupted by interventions from ...
Asia emerged as the next big opportunity in fintech
May 20th, 2016
Asia’s emerged as a key market for financial technology players, as the continent’s large population and limited banking network lures billions in funding. Investors poured $4.5 billion into fintech companies in Asia in 2015, three times the amount attracted ...
The Endgame
May 18th, 2016
And how we got here There is a growing fear in financial and monetary circles that there is something deeply wrong with the global economy. Publicly, officials and practitioners alike have become confused by policy failures, and privately, occasionally ...
