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Ukraine officially defaults on $3bn debt to Russia; Moscow to sue Kiev in London court
January 4th, 2016
Russia’s Finance Ministry is filing a lawsuit against Ukraine for failing to pay off its $3 billion debt to Russia before the December 31 deadline. This means that Ukraine is now officially in a state of default, the ministry ...
China cracks whip on foreign banks with forex shut-out
January 4th, 2016
* Beijing targets “aggressive” trading to stem capital flows * Also wants to narrow onshore-offshore yuan gap * China-based banker says “easy-money” arbitrage days now gone Chinese authorities are starting to police the nation’s foreign exchange market in a ...
Slovene Securities Market Agency is warning investors
December 30th, 2015
Slovene Securities Market Agency has issued a warning to inform investors and public about activities of the companies: GCM Marketing Ltd., 112 Bonadie Street, Kingstown, St. Vincent, Lyxor Ltd., 112 Bonadie Street, Kingstown, St. Vincent Global Marketing Solutions d.o.o., ...
China and Clinton Agree: Traders Should Pay for Canceled Orders
December 30th, 2015
CSRC rule proposals seen taking effect in as early as 2016 Proposal to levy fees on high cancel rates echoes Clinton plan Chinese securities regulators are preparing some of the world’s strictest regulations on a trading practice at the ...
China suspends forex business for some foreign banks: sources
December 30th, 2015
China’s central bank has suspended at least three foreign banks from conducting some foreign exchange business until the end of March, three sources who had seen the suspension notices told Reuters on Wednesday. Included among the suspended services are ...
Austria’s finance watchdog orders 12 banks to raise capital buffer
December 22nd, 2015
Austria’s finance watchdog FMA on Tuesday said it ordered 12 Austrian banks to gradually raise their capital buffer by up to 2 percent of risk-weighted assets until the beginning of 2019 to cover systemic risks. Erste Group Bank (ERST.VI), ...
IMF head Lagarde to face French trial over Tapie affair
December 18th, 2015
Christine Lagarde accused of negligence over €400m payout to businessman Bernard Tapie, who supported Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 presidential race. Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is tostand trial in France over a multimillion-euro government payment to ...
Adena Friedman Appointed Chief Operating Officer at Nasdaq
December 17th, 2015
Will Assume Responsibility for All Business Operations Nasdaq announced that Adena Friedman has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Nasdaq, effective immediately. As President and COO, Friedman will assume responsibility for all of the company’s global business operations and will ...
Here’s how the Fed actually raises interest rates
December 16th, 2015
For the Fed, voting to hike interest rates is the easy part. The tough work begins as U.S. central bank officials implement the right maneuvers to ensure rates go where they want. Essentially, the heavy lifting gets assigned to ...
What is Behavioral Finance?
December 14th, 2015
Why, and under what circumstance, can markets behave inefficiently? That is the central question of behavioural finance, which is the study of how psychological, cognitive and emotional factors impact market participants. Behavioural finance is studied under the wider ...
