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Asia shares swing higher as China nears seven year high
March 30th, 2015
Asian stock markets rose on Monday, with China stocks nearing a seven-year peak on hopes for more infrastructure spending and policy stimulus, while oil prices suffered further from excess supply. Activity was guarded most elsewhere in a week book-ended with holidays ...
PayPal pays $7.7m in US sanctions case
March 27th, 2015
PayPal has agreed to pay $7.7 million to settle charges from the US Treasury that lax screening technology saw the firm violate multiple sanctions programmes. According to a Treasury statement, over several years up until 2013, PayPal processed 486 ...
We’re All Hedge Funds Now, Part 2: Tech Startups and Nigerian Bonds
March 27th, 2015
Watching formerly risk-averse investors adapt to a negative interest rate world is almost as much fun as watching Europe try to keep Greece and Germany in the same financial family. In each case, success depends on all the parties ...
FCA lambasted by MPs over insurance market panic
March 27th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority has still not learnt from last year’s calamitous “pre-briefing” of insurance market reforms, and its chief executive, Martin Wheatley, is still in denial about what went wrong, a committee of MPs warns today. The Treasury ...
Brazil’s Galvao goes bust following Petrobras scandal
March 27th, 2015
One of Brazil’s biggest engineering companies, Galvao Engenharia, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the wake of the Petrobras scandal. The state-run oil company has cut off payments to Galvao. Grupo Galvao, the firm’s parent company, said it was ...
We’re All Hedge Funds Now
March 26th, 2015
As negative interest rates spread from Switzerland, Japan and Germany to the rest of the developed world, people with money to invest face some life-defining choices. Retirees who need to generate 6% to avoid dipping into principal can’t get ...
Ireland’s financial services sector looks to AOMi for improved operations performance
March 26th, 2015
Leading banks and financial organisations are choosing international specialist’s method-driven approach and cloud-based software in support of improved productivity Active Operations Management International (AOMi) has announced major contract wins in Ireland, including a new deployment with Dublin-based Bank of ...
Europe sets the pace as fintech investment triples in 2014
March 26th, 2015
Global investment in fintech ventures tripled from $4.05 billion in 2013 to $12.2 billion in 2014, with Europe being the fastest growing region in the world, according to a new report by Accenture. While the United States still captures ...
FINRA Sanctions First New York Securities L.L.C. $916,000 for Illegal Short Selling in Advance of 14 Public Offerings
March 26th, 2015
Firm Fined $400,000 and Ordered to Pay More Than $500,000 in Disgorgement; Prohibited From Participating in Secondary Offerings for Six Months The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has sanctioned First New York Securities L.L.C. $916,000 ...
BOK Said to Have Met Economists to Improve Communication Lines
March 24th, 2015
The Bank of Korea called in economists on Monday to discuss communication on monetary policy, after catching them off guard earlier this month when it cut the benchmark interest rate to a record low. Officials including Deputy Governor Yoon ...
