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ASIC’s Strategic Outlook 2014-15
October 20th, 2014
ASIC today published its Strategic Outlook for 2014–15. ASIC’s Strategic Outlook sets out the key risks ASIC sees to the markets it regulates, and how ASIC will respond – prioritising its tools of surveillance and enforcement. ASIC scans the ...
Scandal Over Brazilian Oil Company Adds Turmoil to the Presidential Race
October 20th, 2014
President Dilma Rousseff is in a tough fight for the Oct. 26 election after a former executive at Petrobras took a plea bargain and testified that her party had benefited from a bribery scheme. Paulo Roberto Costa was living ...
World Cup Trading Championships set for November
October 20th, 2014
JUST ANNOUNCED: The Inaugural World Cup Championship of Binary Options Trading, co-sponsored by the Nadex exchange, runs Nov. 2-28, 2014! Account minimums of just $500 — our lowest ever — apply for this event. This is the first new ...
The Rise and Fall of the Cypriot Economy (Part 2)
October 20th, 2014
Part 2 – Decline & Deleveraging Stage 4 In the fourth stage people start to become poorer but still think of themselves as rich. The decline is gradual and at first people didn’t realise it and in cases where ...
Turkey’s banking regulator gives new Islamic bank the go-ahead
October 20th, 2014
State-owned Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ziraat Bankası (Agricultural Bank of the Republic of Turkey), Turkey’s second largest bank has been given the green light by the country’s Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BDDK) to set up a standalone Shari’ah-compliant bank. The ...
Guernsey Welcomes Latest Financial Center Rankings
October 17th, 2014
Guernsey has taken third place in this year’s global rankings of specialist financial centers issued by trade publication The Banker. Guernsey was once again ranked third behind the Cayman Islands and Jersey, however the figures this year show that ...
The future of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
October 17th, 2014
China recently reaffirmed that it backs India and Pakistan becoming members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). At the 14th meeting of the Council of Heads of States of SCO on 12 September, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for ...
Australia 200 – Continuing to Fight to Stay Above 5200
October 17th, 2014
Australia 200 for Friday, October 17, 2014 Since the beginning of September the Australia 200 Index has declined strongly from its multi-year high after running into resistance around 5650 back to enter its previously established trading range between 5400 ...
Tribunal analysis: Entrepreneurs’ relief dispute
October 17th, 2014
The key question, explored by the first tier tribunal in the case of Jeremy Rice v HMRC, is whether or not a significant change in a business can amount to a cessation of the existing trade and the start ...
Fears that Pimco and other Big Firms being unable to unload risky bonds
October 17th, 2014
Financial experts warn that a small group of giant asset managers that have amassed high-risk, high-yield bonds could find themselves unable to raise enough cash during a sell-off. When it comes to high-risk bonds, the asset management giant Pimco ...
