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Six people arrested in BoB forex fraud case
October 14th, 2015
Bank’s branch head, forex ops chief among those held Six persons, including Bank of Baroda’s branch head at Ashok Vihar, New Delhi, and an HDFC Bank employee, were arrested on Tuesday in connection with trade-based mechanism to launder money ...
Biometrics payment startup Zwipe raises $5m to accelerate global growth
October 14th, 2015
Biometrics pioneer zwipe raises $5m from high-tech innovation group kuang-chi to accelerate global growth Zwipe, which launched the world’s first fingerprint authenticated payment card on 17 October last year, today announced that it has raised $5 million in equity ...
Are You Ready to Buy Stocks at Your Grocery Store?
October 14th, 2015
Kmart, Office Depot, Safeway and other retailers roll out gift cards that give recipients shares in top companies Now selling at the checkout counter: breath mints, hand sanitizer and…$25 of Berkshire Hathaway stock? In a new twist on the bustling gift-card ...
Where Is the First Helicopter Drop of Money Likely to Land? (Video)
October 13th, 2015
So what’s left in the toolbag of central banks and states to stimulate recessionary economies if QE has been discredited? The answer: Helicopter Money. We all know helicopter money of some kind is coming as the global economy spirals into recession. Quantitative ...
Key areas of risk in the 2015 audit cycle
October 13th, 2015
Professional skepticism and internal control over financial reporting are two key areas for auditors that have attracted the focus of regulators in recent years. These areas are among those addressed in one of two risk alerts published Monday by ...
Proposed sale of Frank Russell company’s asset management business
October 12th, 2015
London Stock Exchange Group plc (“LSEG”) today announces that it has agreed the proposed sale of Frank Russell Company’s asset management business (“Russell Investments”) to TA Associates for gross proceeds of US$1,150 million (£752 million1) in cash, subject to ...
Nobel Prize in Economics for 2015 awarded to Angus Deaton
October 12th, 2015
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2015 to Angus Deaton, Princeton University, NJ, USA “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”. Consumption, ...
Big Banks, Serious Trouble
October 12th, 2015
It turns out that the world of ZIRP/NIRP isn’t the banking paradise that some thought it would be. See Why The Big Banks Want Higher Interest Rates. Whether the problem is with low interest rates themselves or the fact ...
GC Futures Summit: The law firm of the future
October 12th, 2015
Law departments have given their view on the shape of the law firm of the future in a poll conducted for the GC Futures Summit. Law firms need to take a greater interest in their clients’ business if they ...
China and the dollar
October 9th, 2015
With the benefit of hindsight, the two-day devaluation of the yuan in mid-August might have been a masterstroke of strategy. China executed a financial move that appeared to undermine its own position but instead created trouble for the US; ...
