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Bitcoin exchange Quoine raises $20m venture investment
June 21st, 2016
Quoine, a Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange, has closed a $20 million funding round, leveraging off the large opportunity for Bitcoin in the Japanese market, led by venture capitalists (VCs) and other ‘strategic investors’. It’s last funding round was a $2 million ...
Brexit is getting the blame
June 17th, 2016
Brexit is not the most important problem facing markets, it is mounting problems in the European banks. But before looking at that systemic issue, I will summarise the Brexit position, from the trenches, in the last few days before ...
Bitcoin price rises to the highest in more than two years
June 17th, 2016
In another bitcoin price rally the cryptocurrency smashed through the $750 (£530) mark during trading today to reach a 2016 high, after falling below $700 on Tuesday. By mid-afternoon (GMT), bitcoin was still trading up 5.8 per cent at more ...
The Impact of “Brexit” on Retail Investors; Monex survey
June 16th, 2016
Twenty-first Monex Global Retail Investor Survey Survey Focusing on the Impact of “Brexit” on Retail Investors Monex, Inc. has published “The Twenty-first Monex Global Retail Survey(*)” that was conducted from May 25 to June 6, 2016. Below is a ...
Hedge Fund Managers and Former Government Official Charged in $32 Million Insider Trading Scheme
June 16th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against two hedge fund managers and their source, a former government official accused of deceptively obtaining confidential information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A third hedge ...
Brexit fears wipe £100bn off FTSE 100 in four days
June 15th, 2016
Sterling and shares have slid as the City reacts to polls showing the Leave on track to win next week’s referendum Brexit panic sends London shares sliding Britain’s stock market has hit a new three-month low as Brexit worries ...
Former equities trader sentenced for insider dealing
June 15th, 2016
Damian Clarke, a former equities trader at Schroders Investment Management has today been sentenced to two years imprisonment having pleaded guilty to nine counts of insider dealing. Between August 2000 and January 2013, Mr Clarke was employed initially as ...
Bats Hotspot to Launch Outright Forwards for FX Market
June 15th, 2016
Bats Hotspot today announced plans to offer global trading of outright deliverable forwards contracts, with a launch planned for fall 2016. A division of Bats Global Markets (Bats: BATS), Bats Hotspot is a leading global foreign exchange market with ...
The pensions mess: can gold help?
June 14th, 2016
The British have recently seen two unpleasant examples of the cost of pension fund deficits. A deficit at British Steel, estimated to be about £485m, was followed by a deficit at British Home Stores of £571m. In both cases, ...
The Law firms that advised on Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn
June 14th, 2016
On June 13, 2016, Microsoft and LinkedIn Corporation, the world’s largest professional network with more than 433 million members in 200 countries and territories around the globe, announced a definitive agreement for Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for approximately $26.2 ...
