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Money Moves, India Tax Evaders, Credit Suisse: Compliance
June 10th, 2014
The U.S. Treasury Department said it sets limits while giving the nation’s intelligence agencies access to reports that banks file on suspicious or large money moves by customers, including information about Americans. The Treasury, saying it was responding to ...
NYSE Among Exchanges Sued Over High-Frequency Trading
June 10th, 2014
The New York Stock Exchange was one of at least seven exchanges sued by an Alabama man who claims they cheated subscribers by selling preferred access to market data to some of their customers. Harold Lanier said in a ...
Currency Carry Trades Rise in ECB’s Negative-Rate World
June 10th, 2014
Mario Draghi is becoming one of currency traders’ only friends. With the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market poised to deliver its worst first-half returns on record, the carry trade is about the only way traders are making money by exploiting ...
CySec on ESMA’s regulation
June 6th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) draws the attention of the supervised entities, the stakeholders and the investing public to the announcement of the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA). This announcement refers to the publication of the following ...
Gold, silver rise on global cues
June 6th, 2014
Gold prices rose by Rs 70 to Rs 27,250 per ten gram in the national capital today on increased buying by stockists, taking positive cues from the global markets. Silver prices also spurted by Rs 500 to Rs 41,000 ...
ECB’s Big Bang Is Impressive, but More Is Needed
June 6th, 2014
After dropping hints for several weeks, the European Central Bank made history today by doing what no major central bank has done outside a major financial crisis: It pushed the rate on bank deposits to minus 0.1 percent. The ...
European stocks hold six-year highs
June 6th, 2014
European stocks are holding six-year highs, while Wall Street is on course for another record, as investors continue to absorb the latest bout of central bank stimulus and attention turns to the health of the US jobs market. The ...
Wall Street Fights for Our Right to Pay 5% Fund Fees
June 6th, 2014
One of Wall Street’s chief lobbyists wants you to know that the financial industry has changed, a lot, since the financial crisis. The industry “has already fundamentally reshaped itself into one that is safer, sounder and more resilient,” Ken ...
High-Speed Trading Rules Coming From SEC
June 6th, 2014
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White unveiled the regulator’s most sweeping plan yet for reining in high-frequency trading and monitoring dark pools and other secretive trading practices in the world’s largest equity market. Proprietary traders who ...
Barclays Fine Spurs New U.K. Scrutiny of Derivatives Conflicts
June 6th, 2014
Britain’s markets regulator plans to scrutinize the conflicts of interest banks face when they use derivatives after fining Barclays Plc (BARC) for manipulating the price of gold to avoid a pay-out to a client. The Financial Conduct Authority will ...
