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Investors miss out on $500 billion as global bond yields plunge, Fitch Rating says
September 1st, 2016
Investors have seen their interest income squeezed as global bond yields plunge. On the flipside, governments aren’t complaining. Relative to yields in 2011, global investors are foregoing more than $500 billion in annual income on roughly $38 trillion in ...
Fintech Startup Transferwise Moves Away From Banks
August 30th, 2016
Transferwise Inc., the global money transfer startup, is getting ready to free itself from relying on banks. The five-year-old London-based company is known for splashy ad campaigns. These feature nearly-nude employees as a way to show how much more ...
Banks and tech firms apply blockchain to trade finance
August 10th, 2016
An HSBC (HSBA.L) (0005.HK) and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAC.N) venture and financial technology firm R3 said separately on Wednesday that they had created ways of using blockchain technology to simplify trade finance processes. The two banks said ...
New global tax rules are ‘just a sticking plaster’
August 5th, 2016
New international rules to tackle global tax avoidance will not work properly until tax secrecy is swept away, a report released by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on responsible tax has found. The failure to introduce full transparency ...
Brexit, banks fueling bitcoin’s resurgence
July 19th, 2016
The bitcoin renaissance seems to be at hand, with investors using the virtual currency to weather turbulent financial markets and banks striking partnerships to explore the system’s underlying technology. Until mid-May, 1 bitcoin fetched on the order of $400 ...
Global stocks slide, bonds surge as Brexit fears resurface
July 6th, 2016
Asian share markets turned tail on Wednesday as fears over instability in the European Union returned with a vengeance, sending the pound to three-decade lows and hammering risky assets of all stripes. In frantic trading reminiscent of the fateful ...
Global Shares, Pound Rally as Brexit Concerns Soften; Oil Soars
June 30th, 2016
S&P 500 jumps 1.7% as FTSE 100 rally erases post-Brexit loss Crude tops $49 a barrel as dollar slump boosts commodities Global stocks rallied for a second day, while the dollar weakened, amid speculation policy makers will move to ...
Most Asia markets end higher as region weathers a global rout after Brexit vote
June 28th, 2016
Most Asian markets closed higher on Tuesday, managing to hold up better than global peers amid a rout that wiped out as much as $3 trillion of market capitalization, according to data from S&P Global, in the wake of the ...
INTL FCStone Ltd.’s Global Payments Division reports increase in cross-border payments
June 14th, 2016
Facilitated ~101,000 payments in CY Q1 2016; an increase of ~14% vs. CY Q1 2015 Signed 500th institutional client in CY Q2 2016 Transferred more than $22 billion in payments in CY 2015; on track to increase in 2016 INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
Global financial solutions provider GoSwiff appoints new CEO
May 31st, 2016
GoSwiff International, a global financial solutions provider headquartered in Singapore, announced today the appointment of Mark Patrick as their new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Patrick is an accomplished leader, with a track record of managing global, high-growth fintech businesses. ...
