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Financing IMF Transactions Quarterly Report
May 13th, 2015
IMF credit is extended to its members in both foreign exchange and SDRs. Credit extended in foreign exchange is financed from the quota resources made available to the IMF by members, and essentially involves a transfer of foreign exchange ...
Top 5 overseas contracting hotspots of 2015
April 20th, 2015
Due to weaker economic global activity, 2014 proved to be a difficult year for some countries and contracting opportunities may have not registered the expected demand, writes Helene Truffa of Capital Consulting, an international tax and employment advisory. In ...
Central Banks decisions for the week Apri 13 – April 18
April 13th, 2015
This week (April 13 through April 18) central banks from seven countries or jurisdictions are scheduled to decide on monetary policy: Singapore, Indonesia, Poland, Canada, euro area, Namibia and Chile. Following table includes the name of ...
The tiny broker who won on the Swiss Franc shock
March 25th, 2015
Some of the big guys lost on the Swiss franc. Turns out, one of the little guys won. While the likes of Citigroup Inc. and Saxo Bank A/S got stung when Switzerland abruptly let the franc soar in mid-January, ...
Commerzbank publishes 2014 Annual Report
March 18th, 2015
In the 2014 financial year Commerzbank attained an operating profit of EUR 684 million. The net profit of the Bank increased in the year under review to EUR 264 million, following on from EUR 81 million in the previous ...
EU unveils plans for historic single energy market
February 26th, 2015
The EU unveiled plans Wednesday for a continent-wide single energy market to reduce its uneasy reliance on Russian supplies and cut a massive annual import bill of some 400 billion euros. The proposals by the European Commission, the executive ...
German Economic Growth Accelerates, French GDP Only Slightly Higher
February 13th, 2015
The eurozone’s largest economies were on diverging paths in the final three months of 2014, as German growth accelerated, France slid closer to stagnation and ...
Central Banks Move to Drive Down Currencies, Yielding Domino Effect
February 9th, 2015
The central-bank stimulus spree of 2015 has the look of a global currency war. In quick succession, countries representing about a third of the world’s economic output—from the eurozone to China, Australia and Canada—have taken steps that have driven ...
Forget Switzerland: These banks will be hit by SNB shock
January 20th, 2015
Switzerland’s shock scrapping of its currency cap could knock Swiss bank earnings by 10-15 percent, but financial firms in nearby central and eastern European countries could be worse affected, Pimco’s head of financial research told CNBC on Tuesday. “I ...
UK-based business and IT consultancy Rule Financial officially becomes GFT, following acquisition by the global GFT Group
January 9th, 2015
GFT now has over 400 specialists in the UK and over 3,100 worldwide The combined GFT team in the UK now delivers a wider range of services for clients UK-based business and IT consultancy Rule Financial has officially become ...