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Toyota and Mazda Motor to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant in U.S.
August 4th, 2017
Toyota Motor (TM, -1.28%) and rival Mazda Motor (MZDAY, +4.48%) are expected to announce plans on Friday to build a $1.6 billion U.S assembly plant as part of a new joint venture, a person briefed on the matter said. ...
What the bitcoin cash is and is it worth anything?
August 3rd, 2017
Early yesterday morning bitcoin’s blockchain forked — meaning a separate cryptocurrency was created called bitcoin cash. The way a fork works is instead of creating a totally new cryptocurrency (and blockchain) starting at block 0, a fork just creates ...
Isle of Man: We’re no tax haven study concludes
August 2nd, 2017
The Isle of Man might be branded a tax haven by its critics. But that’s not the conclusion of research by academics at the University of Amsterdam. Their study ranks 24 ’sink’ and five ’conduit’ offshore finance centres – ...
Global law firm reveals FY17 results; Record global revenues
August 2nd, 2017
Global law firm Baker McKenzie has issued today a press release to announce revenues for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2017 (FY17). Below is the announcement a it was published: Baker McKenzie, the leading global law firm, has announced ...
Why economists cannot forecast recessions
July 28th, 2017
The purpose of this article is to draw the widest attention to the chronic inability of the economic establishment to forecast recessions. Next time you hear an economist make a prediction on mainstream media, your default assumption should ...
German automakers might face EU fines after allegations but no global legal threat, analyst says
July 26th, 2017
“I still don’t see a major global legal threat here,” Arndt Ellinghorst, head of global automotive research at Evercore ISI, told CNBC on Tuesday. EU antitrust officials confirmed Saturday they had started investigating allegations of a cartel among a ...
The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants named new Chairman
July 19th, 2017
Kimberly N. Ellison-Taylor, CPA, CGMA, has been named chairman of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association) – a global accounting organization formed in 2017 by members of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the ...
SWIFT extends KYC Registry membership to all supervised financial institutions
July 18th, 2017
SWIFT, a global member owned cooperative and the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, has issued an announcement to inform that it has opened membership in its KYC Registry to all supervised financial institutions. Since the launch ...
FCA UK sets out scope of Investment Platforms Market Study
July 17th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published the Terms of Reference for the Investment Platforms Market Study, which sets out the scope and topics that will be covered. Investment platforms are increasingly used by consumers and financial advisers ...
PwC is urging employers to make more use of technology to tackle workplace stress
July 14th, 2017
PwC is urging employers to make more use of technology in the workplace to tackle health and wellbeing issues, after a survey by the firm suggested a third of the UK workforce (34%) may be experiencing difficulties such as ...
