Search Results for: IG Group
PwC ordered to pay millions dollars in damages over bank’s collapse
July 3rd, 2018
A federal judge on Monday said PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP must pay $625.3 million in damages to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp for failing to uncover fraud that led to one of the largest bank failures of the global financial crisis. ...
The euro and the pound fell; Stocks dropped in Asia on Monday
July 2nd, 2018
Stocks dropped in Asia on Monday after capping their worst quarter since 2015 last month, as investors gird for U.S. tariff hikes on Chinese imports that could damp export demand across the region. Oil fell and the dollar headed ...
Why Americans are warming to mobile payments
June 29th, 2018
Americans have long been laggards when it comes to paying for goods and services with a smartphone. Plenty still prefer to sign credit-card slips or even cheques. But there are signs that they are warming to more modern methods. ...
European Commission finds Luxembourg gave illegal tax benefits
June 28th, 2018
The European Commission has found that Luxembourg allowed two Engie group companies to avoid paying taxes on almost all their profits for about a decade. This is illegal under EU State aid rules because it gives Engie an undue ...
Investors warnings to avoid unathorized financial services firms
June 28th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), Sweden (Finansinspektionen), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), Spain (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – CNMV), Hong Kong ...
HSBC hires robots to work in a branch’s lobby
June 27th, 2018
HSBC is hiring a small army of four-foot-tall robots at its flagship branch on Fifth Avenue in downtown Manhattan. The bank has ordered seven of the humanoids, which go by the name Pepper, from Japanese group Softbank and is ...
Europe’s banks and industrial stocks sink as trade dispute deepens
June 26th, 2018
The latest episode in a trade dispute between the United States and other major economies sent European shares further into a funk on Monday with benchmarks down 0.8 to 1.2 percent and autos, basic resources and tech stocks the ...
Regulators in France warn for unauthorized websites and entities proposing Forex investments
June 25th, 2018
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) issued a warning to inform the public against the activities of several websites and entities proposing Forex investments without being authorized to do ...
FCA reveals urban-rural differences in how consumers experience financial services
June 22nd, 2018
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the latest analysis from its Financial Lives survey. Today’s report puts the spotlight on the financial situation of people across the UK and highlights where in the UK people may be more ...
Oil, the petrodollar, and the next emerging market crisis
June 21st, 2018
Oil prices are up over the past year, which is bad if you’re, say, a developing country that imports a lot of the stuff. But the US dollar (aka the petrodollar) is also up, which compounds the problem because ...
