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Xero launches education hub
November 5th, 2014
Cloud accounting firm Xero has launched an online platform to encompass all of its educational content, Xero U. It aims to teach accountants, bookkeepers and other users about how to use the accounting platform through a customised learning environment. The ...
Introduction to Trading Systems – Part I
November 5th, 2014
Traders have many wise and pithy sayings which illustrate market wisdom and correct practices that might serve them well in their speculative operations in the markets. Two of those which appear to be in conflict with each other are: ...
Former UBS executive found not guilty in U.S. tax cheating trial
November 4th, 2014
A former top banker who headed global wealth management at UBS AG (UBSN.VX) (UBS.N) was found not guilty on Monday on U.S. charges of conspiring with wealthy Americans to hide $20 billion in secret offshore accounts. Raoul Weil, the ...
Argentina suspends P&G over tax claims
November 3rd, 2014
Argentina has banned the consumer products giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) from doing business in the country, accusing the firm of tax fraud. A statement on the presidential website, published on Sunday, said P&G had inflated the price of ...
Most People Cannot Even Imagine That An Economic Collapse Is Coming
November 3rd, 2014
The idea that the United States is on the brink of a horrifying economic crash is absolutely inconceivable to most Americans. After all, the economy has been relatively stable for quite a few years and the stock market continues ...
Oikonomia, Revisited
October 31st, 2014
My knowledge of ancient Greek is not significantly different from zero, but every student of economics at some point runs into oikonomia, the root word from which economy and economics were later derived. For example, in describing the etymology ...
FCA fines Sesame Ltd for ‘pay-to-play’ arrangements
October 30th, 2014
Sesame Ltd, the UK’s largest network of financial advisers, has been fined £1,598,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for setting up a pay-to-play scheme. Sesame’s arrangement effectively undermined the ban on commission payments brought in by the Retail ...
Trio of Russian state-owned banks take EU to court over sanctions
October 29th, 2014
Three Russian major state-owned institutions – Sberbank, VTB and Vnesheconombank – have announced that they have filed lawsuits with an EU court to contest sanctions the European Union imposed on them in late July. The first to announce its ...
Latham and Bakers’ Saudi associates take key roles on $6bn National Commercial Bank IPO
October 27th, 2014
Latham & Watkins and Baker & McKenzie’s association firms in Saudi Arabia have won key roles advising on the IPO of the country’s largest lender, the National Commercial Bank (NCB). The $6bn (£3.7bn) flotation is the largest-ever listing in ...
Mashreq Bank retail chief insists the bank does not cold call customers
October 27th, 2014
Mashreq Bank has insisted that it does not engage in cold calling of residents, according to the bank’s UAE head of retail banking. Despite the practice being outlawed by authorities in the UAE since 2011, there have been numerous ...
