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Whatsapp adds end-to-end encryption
April 6th, 2016
Instant messaging service Whatsapp has announced it will encrypt all its users’ communications from Tuesday. With end-to-end encryption, messages are scrambled as they leave the sender’s device and can only be decrypted by the recipient’s device. It renders messages ...
MasterCard Digital Enablement Service Propels Growth of Secure Digital Transactions across Europe with More than 60 Projects Underway
April 6th, 2016
The adoption of digital payments continues to grow worldwide with MasterCard predicting that by 2020, 38 percent of payments made throughout Europe will be digital. This shift in consumer behavior will be powered safely and securely by the MasterCard Digital ...
Shinzo Abe Says Countries Must Avoid Competitive Currency Devaluations
April 6th, 2016
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said countries should avoid competitively devaluing their currencies, speaking after the dollar fell to its lowest level against the yen in nearly a year and a half. The yen’s rise against the dollar has accelerated in the first months ...
Greece’s Path to New IMF Loan Grows Even Rockier Following Leak
April 5th, 2016
IMF officials discussed smaller surplus target, WikiLeaks says Fund has been pushing euro-area nations to offer debt relief Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras may be alienating the International Monetary Fund just when he needs it most. The IMF has ...
HMRC’s response to the ICIJ story on offshore tax evasion
April 5th, 2016
Jennie Granger, Director General of Enforcement and Compliance, HM Revenue and Customs, said: HMRC is committed to exposing and acting on financial wrongdoing and we relentlessly pursue tax evaders to ensure that they pay every penny of taxes and fines ...
RBI:India Cuts Rates,First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2016-17
April 5th, 2016
Part A: Monetary Policy Monetary and Liquidity Measures On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation, it has been decided to: reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 ...
Aussie Gains, Reversing Declines, as RBA Currency Rhetoric Muted
April 5th, 2016
Currency jumped 13% from low set in January to March 31 high Stevens said last month Aussie may be getting ahead of itself Australia’s dollar gained, reversing earlier declines, after Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens held interest rates at ...
Why Japan’s plan to raise the number of lawyers it hasn’t worked out
April 4th, 2016
Japan is struggling with an unlikely problem: Its people aren’t litigious enough. Fifteen years ago, the nation kicked off a plan to double the number of lawyers. Officials thought they could breathe dynamism into society by mimicking the Western ...
Investors and brokers unite to make algo-trading more transparent
March 30th, 2016
The Investment Association and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) have today paved the way for safer and better executed Algorithmic trading on Europe’s financial markets. Algorithmic trading is a key component of an investor’s ability to ...
How Many Tech Startups Are Empty Shells?
March 30th, 2016
How many startups are empty shells filled with glitzy PR designed to appeal to VC newbies? It’s widely accepted that most tech startups will fail. Perhaps the core business proposition didn’t pan out, or the execution was flawed, or ...
